I love all of your reviews and comments! I decided I will continue this story! Please let me know what you guys think of this chapter, I'm nervous that I may have screwed up a perfectly good one-shot by extending it. Although, I do like this story, it's really fun to write about. Also, I've changed the summary of the story so if anyone wants a little hint at how the story will progress, they can look at that.
Anyway, thank you so much for your support. I'm excited to see what you all think, I'm trying to keep characters as natural as possible so it seems like a more realistic story, if anyone notices that one of the characters isn't acting like they normally would, let me know! THANKS!
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"Naruko watch out!" The blonde haired girl heard Sakura scream.
Crystal blue eyes widened as they looked upward, seeing her sensei in front of the beaming sun, spiraling downwards toward her with his fist raised. She smirked and leapt to the side, causing her mentor's fist to slam into the ground. Dirt covered smoke clouded the training ground blurring Naruto's and Sakura's vision.
A blue glove fist suddenly burst through the smoke, aimed for Naruko's stomach. She grit her teeth and placed her hands in a 'x' formation to try and block the attack, however, that wasn't necessary as her collar had been yanked backward. She whirled her head around, seeing her other teammate Sasuke pull her back and away from harm.
The Uchiha smirked and flashed his eyes upward. Naruko nodded, getting the signal, and Sasuke intertwined his fingers, placing them downwards. Naruko put her foot in Sasuke's hands and he launched her into the air.
Kakashi, following his fist, flew out of dust, expecting to find his blonde student, instead finding his black haired student. Sasuke launched out a kick, causing Kakashi to block with his forearm. The silver haired ninja then used his free hand to grip the ankle of Sasuke's extended leg. Sasuke twisted his body and placed his hands on the ground and launching out another leg to kick the older ninja.
Kakashi, once again caught the leg, and soon realized that Sasuke was attacking the same way he did in the bell exam. Choosing to avoid the situation, Kakashi launched himself backwards, his ankle however, caught something. He turned his head to the side, and his eyes widened as he saw Sakura smirking while holding a taught ninja wire connected to a tree on the opposite side of the field.
The silver haired ninja's back hit the ground with a 'thud', then a strange shadow covered his head and he gazed at the sky. Naruko, followed by four copies of herself were falling through the air, of course grinning wildly.
'These genin?!' Kakashi thought as the five Narukos slammed into his body, causing a dust explosion.
When the smoke cleared, the figure that was once Kakashi, was now a wooden log. The three genin's eyes widened as their sensei had managed to avoid their collaborating attack.
They grouped up in the center, trying to spot their sly sensei, only for him to appear in a 'poof' of smoke. His one eye was closed, somehow revealing that he was smiling and he clapped.
"You three did an excellent job, too bad I'm just a little too good." He chuckled. The three let out a defeated sigh before looking back up at their sensei with determination.
"Let's try again!" Sakura yelled out first.
"Yeah! This time we'll win!" Naruko agreed.
"Hn." Sasuke smirked.
All three of the genin began to fall into a battle ready stance. Kakashi chuckled before placing his hands up.
"Ma Ma...Let's call it a day shall we? I was thinking we should have a team dinner. You know, bonding." Kakashi smiled.
The three genin were suddenly grinning all together, before Naruko sprinted off towards her favorite ramen stand. The other three ninja sighed and followed the girl, knowing it was pointless to argue against her.
"Does she ever not eat ramen sensei?" Sakura chuckled.
"Doesn't seem like it." Kakashi replied.
Sasuke remained silent as they made their way after the blonde girl.
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Later into the night, the streets of Konoha had settled down, civilians had head into their warm homes, ninja had returned to their sleeping quarters to prepare for upcoming missions the next day, and ANBU patrol units had begun to watch over the village.
Of course, Team Seven was still sitting in a warmly lit ramen stand, happily conversing with each other, and the respected ramen cooks, who had allowed them to stay much longer than they should have.
"I swear one more mission with us chasing that demon cat and I'm gonna get Kiba and his clan to hunt her down!" Sakura exclaimed, wildly throwing her hands in the air. Naruko, Sasuke, and Kakashi all nodded and laughed.
"Oh!" Sakura jumped out of her seat, looking at the clock on the wall. "My parents are gonna kill me! I didn't realize it was so late! Bye guys!" Sakura waved before sprinting off into the dark night. "Thanks for dinner Kakashi-sensei!"
The other ninja waved goodbye before Kakashi too, stood up, making his way out of the ramen stand. "Well, I should head out too, I promised Guy that he and I would race around Konoha, have to get up bright and early." He waved at Naruko and Sasuke before stepping out.
The two gennin looked at each other, confused as Kakashi-sensei had rarely ever agreed to some of Guy's wild challenges. Eventually both of them shrugged their shoulders before getting out of their seats.
"Good bye Ayame-chan! Old man! Thanks for letting us stay." Naruko yelled behind her, Sasuke turned to face the cooks and nodded slightly, giving them his thanks.
"Come back anytime!" The two cooks replied back.
Out and in the streets, Naruko took a deep, cool breath of air before turning to her teammate. "Well I guess I'm gonna go home too..." She said.
Sasuke scratched at the back of his head, before mumbling something that Naruko didn't quite pick up.
"Ne, what was that Sasuke?" She asked, leaning closer to the boy with her face turned so her ear was closer to him.
Sasuke glanced towards the ground, a blush spreading across his face. Luckily the streets were dark enough that his blonde teammate couldn't see it. "I said, let me walk you home." His voice barely a whisper, however Naruko heard, and she too couldn't stop a slight blush from appearing on her face.
Not trusting herself to speak properly, she instead opted to nod her head slightly before turning to face the direction of her house and began to walk that way, Sasuke quickly hurried and walked beside her.
The two walked in silence, not really knowing what to say, well, Naruko didn't know what to say. Sasuke on the other hand was just trying to focus on keeping his steps steady and not look like he was having trouble walking next to his teammate. Honestly why was he so nervous!
Arriving at a beat up, rusty old apartment, Sasuke had to refrain from covering his nose and mouth, due to the intense smell of rotting garbage. The two walked up rusty metal stairs and through a hallway with blinking, half-lit light bulbs. Then Sasuke saw Naruko stop in front of an old wooden door which seemed to be made of rotting wood. The blonde gennin slammed her shoulder into the door, while turning the knob, trying to un-jam her horrible door. When the door finally gave in, she stumbled forwards into her apartment.
Steadying herself, she turned around to thank Sasuke for walking her home, since that had been the first time someone had offered to do that in her entire life.
"Thank you Sasuke, I'll um, I'll see you tomorrow at the training grounds." She said in a whisper, so that she wouldn't wake any neighbors beside her apartment. Sasuke however, wasn't focused on what she was saying. He was focused on the inside of her apartment, looking past Naruko, there was barely any furniture, and what furniture was there was broken or stained. Her wooden floors look crooked and dangerous if someone wasn't wearing shoes.
"Idiot." Sasuke said, before charging past Naruko and into her apartment.
"Hey what do you think you're doing?" Naruko said, placing her hands on her hips, clearly annoyed with the sudden intrusion.
Sasuke looked back at the girl with a hidden warmth in his eyes, something Naruko couldn't notice. "Get some pairs of clothes, you're staying with me." He all but commanded.
Naruko's eyes widened at the forcefulness of Sasuke's tone, but saw that the young teen was very serious. She thought about kicking him out and telling the boy that she didn't need help with her living situation, but even she had to admit that she lived in a disgusting, horrible apartment. She really couldn't call this place home.
Just nodding her head, Sasuke was surprised as the blonde walked into what he assumed was her room before coming back out a couple minutes later with a small sack thrown over her shoulders.
"Good come on." Sasuke said, extending his hand to his teammate. Naruko blushed slightly before placing her hand on Sasuke's. Without realizing, Sasuke gripped her hand and walked out of the apartment and towards the Uchiha compound.
Naruko gazed amazingly at the enormous stone gate, bearing the Uchiha's clan symbol. She had never seen what the Uchiha compound had looked like. Her expectations were blown out of the water as she saw many exquisitely beautiful wooden homes. She frowned, realizing the only thing that was missing was life in the homes.
She glanced towards Sasuke, looking up at his face, which seemed to be staring impassively at the road in front of them. The Uchiha compound seemed beautiful, but Naruko knew that it must have been much more beautiful when there had been people living within the compound. Sasuke must really miss everyone.
It was then that Naruko realized that Sasuke had truly lost more than she ever did. Sure she never knew what love was like, or what childhood friends felt like, but Sasuke had, and he lost it all.
Sasuke caught Naruko looking at him and parted his mouth, thinking of something to say. "How come you're looking at me?" He asked.
Naruko glanced down to the ground, her cheeks felt warm as she was trying to decide whether she should tell Sasuke that she had been thinking about what he lost.
Finding some form of confidence in herself, Naruko looked back up towards the expecting eyes of the Uchiha. "I was just thinking, I got your back." She said as her eyes closed and her mouth formed a wide excited smile.
Sasuke didn't really understand what she meant, but found himself smiling anyway. They arrived at his particular home and walked up the concrete steps.
"Here we are, I'll show you to the guest room." Sasuke said.
Naruko nodded excitedly, as she could already tell that there was something more special about Sasuke's house than any of the other homes that she had seen. He opened the door and led her inside.
Neither noticed their hands were still intertwined.
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