Neji: I am here on behalf of lokli2 to make the new chapter announcements and to say he is sorry for the last chapter. He says that he was listening to too much tenacious d that day and made him much more idiotic than usual.
Lokli2: Neji I can take it from here.
Neji: Aight bud, I'll see ya at karaoke tonight.
Lokli2: Ladies and gentlemen just fyi I've been listening to a lot of love and heartbreak music including red jumpsuit apparatus, simon and milo, and bowling for soup, so I hope you find this chapter a lot more romantic, or should I say… less stupid. Yeah that works.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto so stop asking to borrow it already!
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'This is amazing!' the spiky-haired shinobi thought to himself. He had never felt this way when he kissed a girl. Oh yes he was quite the ladies man after going with and making out with Hinata, Ino, Tenten, Shizune, and even tsunade once, when she had tricked him and used a hinge to look like a 15 year-old. (A/N this story is set in a time when he is about 16 ok back to the story.) But, he had never had a kiss that felt like this. All those kisses were just from some petty relationships that all had a chance at working. But this one, with a girl he hardly knew anything about, and had never showed any interest in, felt so… so… real.
"Way to go kit." Kyuubi decided to say. But there was something else inside of him that told him to hold on to her and never let go. He didn't know if it was his raging teenage libido, or the fact that he had never had anything to feel this way about, even if this was his best friend's girl. But even though this girl's boyfriend was his friend, he had to have her himself. 'I think I love her.'
She had never felt this way when kissing a boy, not even Shikamaru. This felt as if her feet were going to fall out from under her and she was goin to float away on a cloud with this Adonis. She felt something far more than a spark and, despite that she had never felt better than she had at that moment, it scared her. 'What would Shikamaru think is he saw us.' She thought to herself, 'Would I be labeled a tramp, or a tease?' 'Would my friend's start saying I'm easy?'
When their lips parted they stood there for a minute just looking at each other and then Temari turned around and ran with tears of confusion welling up in her eyes. Naruto was stuck to the spot until he realized that she had left and quickly yelled, "Stop it's dangerous out here after dark!"
With her tears clouding her vision, and some part of her screaming at her to go back, she tripped on a stick and began to roll down the hill until she got to the bottom and hit her head on a rock and was knocked unconscious. That's when a man that was walking by where girl landed at the time looked at her hungrily. But quickly scooped her up and took her into an alleyway when he heard someone running down a hill. He was about to undress her when he heard a boy's voice say, "Put her down you bastard!" obviously trying to restrain his anger.
"Who's going to make me kid?" The man said as he started to undo the girl's sash.
But that's when the boy's eyes turned red and he said, "Me." Naruto quickly conjured thirty clones that royally beat the hell out of the man. "And if you ever try this again with anyone I'll be there to stop you!" The man would have run away if he hadn't been beaten within an inch of his life. If you were to look at this man you would know to NEVER mess with someone Naruto likes.
The now red-eyed ninja picked up the girl marriage style and took her back to his place where he laid her down on the couch before he went to shower and lay down. Right when he was almost asleep his mind returned to the magical moment that had happened earlier that night. But then he felt a sinking feeling. "What would Shikamaru do if he ever found out that I kissed the person he cared about more than life." He said to himself. 'He'll never find out' he thought reassuringly before going to sleep.
His subconscious mind had other plans though…
"Haha, think you can steal my girl aye." The boy said as an almost feral grin spread across his face. "Well I guess I'm just gong to have to teach you a little lesson." And out of nowhere a hand of shadow clutched him by the throat and slowly began to constrict until there was no flow of air going in or out and then he stopped breathing all-together. Uzumaki Naruto was dead… Then the blonde boy shot out of his dream in a cold sweat.He decided he needed a little air so he got up and went out onto the balcony. 'Why am I so afraid of this? At most it was a five second French.'
"Kit, you know he's going to kill you."
'Kyuubi, believe it or not, YOU'RE NOT HELPING!' Naruto bellowed in his mind.
"Kekekekeke. Oh, and look out behind you." The beast said before it dove back into the shadows that were his prison. So naturally Naruto turned around and saw a very angry shadow ninja glaring daggers at him.
"S-s-s-shikamaru what are you doing here?" The blue-eyed boy asked already knowing the answer.
"Well after I heard the news that you were trying to take Temari from me, I decided to go for a stroll and for some reason I ended up here." Naruto gulped knowing his imminent fate. After Shikamaru flashed through a handful of seals Naruto began to fall until he landed on nothing. Everything was dark but he then saw ten shikamarus emerge from the shadows. Then the original Shikamaru said "Welcome to my nightmare."(A/N just such a cool freddy phrase had to use it) And then the shadows engulfed him and Naruto was no more. Then the fox-like shinobi realized that he had never left his bed.
The scene in the other room was quite different. The sleeping girl was lost in a cave full of shadows that, for some reason, made her sad and angry. She then felt something tugging at her leg. Looking down she saw a small orange fox that had a patch of yellow hair on its back that made her remember someone that she couldn't quite recall. She then realized the little fox was trying to tell her something, and in reply she said, "Ok, ok I'll follow ya." And within mere seconds she was free from the cave. The fox then jumped on her and began to lick her incessantly. Her and the fox began to play and in time she had completely forgotten about the cave of shadows. She had never slept better.
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The next day in Konoha hospital
"That's what happened." Said a tired but devious looking Sakura to a fuming Shikamaru.
"The backstabbing bastard." The sick boy said. "The second I'm out of here I shall show him what pain truly is."
"You do that." Sakura said as she made her leave smiling that evil grin. 'Naruto shall be mine.' She thought to herself, 'No matter what…'
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The same time across town
Temari was awake but acting asleep. After the memories of last night flooded back to her, she definitely was not looking forward to the upcoming confrontation. When she finally mustered up the courage to get out of bed she went into Naruto's bedroom but found it empty, so she went to the kitchen, where she was sure to find him, but instead she was glad to find a note from Naruto saying:
Temari I got called onto a mission, I should be back around nine tonight
I'll see ya later
Naruto
"Whew." She said aloud. "I wonder what kind of mission he got."
Unbeknownst to Temari, Naruto had no such mission and was chilling at the ramen stand. In fact he was more afraid of seeing her than she of him, so he came up with a devious plan to sneak out of the house as early as he could so he wouldn't have to talk to her, but then he remembered rule number twenty-eight of the ninja guidebook "Always have a believable alibi." So he quickly wrote up a fake note.
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Since he was on a mission, Temari felt a small amount of the burden lifted off of her heart. Then she realized she hadn't eaten since last night and decided to go to the kitchen and find something. But just her luck, there was nothing there. 'Damn I'm really hungry' she thought to herself, 'Guess I have enough to go out. I know what would be really good to calm my nerves, some ramen.'
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About thirty minutes later at Ichiraku ramen
"Oi, old-man how about three more bowls of chicken, one of beef, and two of fish."
"Naruto are you going to spend the entire day here?" The old man replied.
"Probably, things are really weird at home right now." But right as the old man was about to ask why things were so weird a new customer walked through the flaps and sat down at the opposite end of the counter. Ayame walked up to her and gave her a menu then made some idle chit-chat, followed by taking her order. The girl didn't even take any notice of Naruto, she had too many things on her mind as is.
"Three bowls of chicken, two fish ad one beef for the young-man Ayame."
That's when Temari's mind just stopped and remembered that order but thought to herself, 'No way he was on a mission today.' But when a yell of, "Itadakimasu" had confirmed her fear. She almost ran out of there until Rock lee came in saying, "Temari-san how are you this beautiful youth-filled day? How is your brother that almost ended my career as a shinobi?"
"He's doing great jick. How are you?"
"Don't call me that I had to change my name back because something about plagiarism and lawsuits and a completely youthless gang war between my band and the rolling stones. But besides that I'm doing fantastically." Lee said in his old overly-spastic style of speaking and of course this attracted Naruto's attention so he decided to sit down by his good friend. But it wasn't until he was already sitting that he realized that Temari was sitting right beside him. "Hello my blonde and youthful friend." Lee said. "A former team mate of mine told me that he saw you with a lovely young-woman at Le chez peruz last night but could not really make out who it was."
"Yea that was this girl that kinda digs me." This unexpected statement made Temari do a face plant that created a four-foot crater in the earth.
"Just like your former sensei you are so hip Naruto. I shall hit on thirty girls a day until I have found a girl to rival yours." Lee said with a passion that made Lee, Lee. The boy then said very passionately, "Sir I would like twenty bowls of vegetarian ramen to go. Me and my sensei have a dat- I- I- mean training session. Yea that's it, training session." With that and his twenty bowls of ramen he was off to his date.
Naruto and Temari looked at each other for a brief moment in silence before saying together, "We need to talk."
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Next chapter the dreaded "Talk". I wanna give a shout out to all my homies that reviewed. Hopefully you enjoyed this chapter and I'm going to try not to keep changing the style of the story. And always remember, If you ever want a piece of lokli2, he is always up for a piping hot slice of you with a side of fava beans. Lokli2 OUT.