TenshiUmiko: sniff, sniff First I would like to thank all my loyal fans! I'd list them but I'm too lazy. But I'd like to comment that here in the city one cannot see the stars at night but I prefer to look at the rare red clouds in the night sky. OH! I'm not really sure this fic is humorous but I'll try!...yeah…
Disclaimer: Naruto is not mine…indefinitely… (looking other way)
Pairings: I decided that it should have some Naru/Sasu but I'll let you readers decide the pairings, okay? So vote and review!
Summary: (cough, cough) get the message and just read already.
AN: Didn't I just say something? Oh well, this is the newest installment please review and love me for it!
Fatale Sin
Chapter Two
Naruto woke up to a startled silence. She jerkily looked around the room in a panic as if the Kyuubi would jump at her any minute. Calming down, she realized where she was. A hospital room. Damn. 'I wonder if they found out…' She looked down to see herself in her slightly torn black t-shirt (you know where or at least I am assuming you do) with a few bandages on her left arm, …She felt her head…head, and…staring down at her totally flat chest, that's it.
And to think people never found out that she was a female in the first place. Naruto was practically a board with slight muscles on her arms and legs. All the places a regular 12-year-old would have muscles. Including the two tiny bumps on her chest that more or less resembled chest muscles on a young kid. (She's just flat so I'm giving no more details on her chest you perverts!).
She leaned back into the bed just as Shikamaru came in.
"AAh! Shikamaru!" (No, she did not scream, it's more of she said aah) Naruto had forgotten about the others in the mission. "You're okay! How're the others? Doing fine, I bet!" She tried to act normal, as if everything was going to be the same as it was before. But somehow it just wasn't. And her Cheshire grin broke into a weak, twitchy smile. "Ano…"
"They're all going to be alright, Naruto." Shikamaru smiled, or rather half-smiled cause he was to lazy to do a full one. Shikamaru though did notice the rather weak smile for the blond and frowned. "What's wrong?"
"We…It's my fault! I failed you guys…you trusted me to get the bastard back but I…"
"Naruto, it's okay. As long as no one…died…nothing else matters…Chouji's gonna be okay, and they're finished healing up Neiji…I was the one at fault Naruto. I barely got hurt and I'm the captain. I couldn't even…" For the first time since the mission to retrieve Sasuke, Shikamaru broked down a little and a tear slid down his tired looking eyes. Naruto dropped his mouth. That was, in the history of all Konoha, the most words Shikamaru had ever said, excluding talks on preparations on missions and shoji, of course. To make it much worse, the silence was impenetrable and unbearable. Naruto hated the silence so of course, as usual, she lived up to her name as the loudest ninja in Konoha (and probably every where else) and screamed out while pointing at Shikamaru.
"Naaaa! Who are you and what have you with the real Shikamaru! Bring back lazy ass excuse for a ninja! Now….(thunk)…oww…" Naruto grimaced slightly and gingerly fingered the bump on her head as she glowered at the glaring Shikamaru. Then as if the weight was lifted off the room, both began to laugh.
Sakura trembled as the she stood outside the door to Naruto's room. Naruto…He promised to bring back Sasuke but he…failed….Tears ran down her shut eyes. Quickly she wiped them away. She shook her head. No! She will not cry in front of Naruto! Not after what she made him do…
Guilt laid heavily on her shoulders as she remembered the promise she made Naruto make. Then having to see him on Kakashi-sensei's back and had only thought on seeing the return of Sasuke.
flash back
She had worn black that day because it was Sasuke's favorite color, right? It was then that she realized, she didn't know anything about Sasuke at all. All those things that she and the other fangirls had discovered, for example the color or type of his boxers were a midnight blue with tiny Uchiha fans sprinkled all over it in print, now seemed so worthless. Sasuke…Had she ever truly known or seen the real him? Was she that blind?
It was raining lightly. She hated the rain. She was restless and panicky. Would Naruto like her dress. Maybe when he sees her he'll finally give up his stupid dream and ask her out and then marry her when they come of age and, and …and then what? She pushed the nagging question away and smiled brightly when she saw one after another, the medics came back with the disheveled or unconscious team.
She didn't even look at them as all she wanted to see was Sasuke. Then Kakashi-sensei came through with a body on his back. Sasuke! She had thought rushing to his side. But instead of black and blue, she saw orange. Naruto. She didn't even give him a glance before looking behind them.
She looked fervently around for her Sasuke. When she had not seen her true love, her future husband, her teammate, she faltered and scowled. Inner Sakura ready to give some Naruto-bashing. Angry she stalked over to Kakashi-sensei and was ready to yell and cry and banter…that was until she saw the look in Kakashi's eyes.
Dark…they were so full of pain and cruelty. Kakashi turned so his side was facing her. So she could see Naruto. Naruto who was always, always there with his smile. Naruto who was always there to bring up her spirit. The one and only Naruto who now looked…wrong. It was just wrong to see the loudest, hyper ,and full of surprises, ninja lying on his teacher's back, silent. Still. Not moving. As if he was broken…
Sakura trembled. Then faltered on her feet. And finally fell unto her knees. Alone. Was she all alone? She hated the loneliness. She hated being alone. That was the reason she was always so screechy. The reason why she was always running after others or trailing behind and wanting to be with Sasuke. Because she was afraid of the loneliness…
"…Naruto!..." Came a voice. Hokage-sama, of course.
"…naruto! Neiji-niisan!..." Hinata. Black. The irony of it. She had worn black on the day that her teammate came back dead? Was he dead? He should be for all he looked. Like a fallen cherub. It's wings torn from it's back. Dead. Black. Black. It was as if she had already began to mourn for him. And for the first time, she was thinking about Naruto, and not Sasuke.
"…naruto…" And she broke down crying as medics came and took the boy away. Alone. Once again she was alone. And for some reason. She welcomed it.
end of flash back
Sakura took a deep breathe and walked in. Determined not to let Naruto see her pain. Her sorrow. Her guilt. Just her smile.
Naruto sighed as she was finally alone. Stretching out she tried to access the Kyuubi again when all of a sudden a loud BOOM! came from outside. She rushed to the window half expecting a barrage of sound ninjas or huge snakes falling from the sky. What she didn't expect was sitting on a humongous orange toad summon. Jiraiya. Ero-sennin. Naruto frowned.
"Now, now Naruto! Not happy to see me!" The toad master (heh! Toad Master) did his little pose before getting serious. Naruto barely had the time to get ready for the change. With Jiraiya one could never tell if he was a pervert, a genius, or just a damnable old ass fart who happened to be a sannin and one to the Legendary Three. "Now Naruto, I have a compromise with you. Will you hear me out?"
Naruto raised an eyebrow and thought what the pervert would want now. Then, curiosity filled her, and she nodded. After hearing what he had to say, she didn't waste any time to answer.
"Yosh! With your training and my abilities, I will become strong in no time!" But that's not what Naruto said. Instead she asked for more time. And time was given, which lasted about five hours in this story. (Note: I did say that Naruto starts puberty in two days time after the Big Fight so that means that she stayed in the Hospital for a day instead of the amount of time she really stayed in the manga. So all this happened in one and a half days) With that said and done, the two were off. That was only after the doctors released Naruto and then she still had to pack.
Ofcourse it wasn't all that simple as indicated, Naruto began puberty the first day of camping. Let's just say it included a whole bunch of yelling, explaining, storytelling, and of course, the extra dose of nose bleeding and blushings.
Not that it helped the blossoming Naruto one bit as the day ended with a loud:
"SHUT UP ALREADY YOU STUPID PERVERT!"
And that ends Naruto's child hood.
Two years later…
"..." Two figures stood on the monument overlooking Konoha. One stood bigger and taller than the other one and was definitely male. The shorter and smaller of the two looked down on the peaceful village, no emotions, no nothing.
"..." Silence.
"..." Silence ensues. Then it breaks.
"...well? C'mon! Don't tell me you've forgotten the beauty of Konoha, Sin!"
"…it's different. I guess…" Said the one called Sin. The other one sighed and clonked Sin on the head but missed as Sin disappeared.
"I thinkI got her angry!" Then after a minute or two, he shrugged as he too disappeared only to reappear near the bath house grinning widely with a note pad and pencil at hand.
Ending Comments: So was that good? I hope so…Can you guys guess who they are? Anyways if you don't know the boys of Naruto then here they are for the listings of who will end up with the lovely and virginal (?) Naruto-chan!
Naruto: Nani! Hey! Don't I have a say in this!
TenshiUmiko: Nope!Natta!Zero! This is all to the votes of the reviewers. So here they are (as far as I can name):
1. Rock Lee
2. Uchiha Sasuke
3. Aburame Shino
4. Uchiha Itachi
5. Kisame
6. Jiraiya
7. Gaara
8. Kankorou
9. Nara Shikamaru
10. Akimichi Chouji
11. Hyuuga Neiji
12. Kakashi
13. Genma
14. Gai
and whomever else there is that you feel should be with Naruto!
Next time on Fatale Sin:
"Who are you?" Asked Sakura as she face off with the unknown female in front of her. Sakura had been around many times (not like THAT, okay) and she had access to Tsunade's files so she knew practically everyone in Konoha. But she didn't know this girl in front of her adorning the leaf hitaite on her forehead.
"You may have heard of me as the Fatale Sin of Konoha…"
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