Helping the Orange Kid
6- Blade of Words
Last Time
Catching Rin, bride styler. And using the momentum from the jump, I landed on a different branch, untouched by the fight.
Minato then jumps down from the treetops and says, "you guys win, Naruto and Rin."
Naruto N. POV
After the test to show off my abilities to my new team. We spent the rest of the day working on teamwork by doing teamwork exercises. Who knows if a team wants to become a battler team it actually works, surprisingly?
We were all sitting comfortably on the bridge, going over the creek next to the training ground of team seven.
By the end of the day of training together, I can say with confidence this team seven is not like mine team seven.
Yeah, just looking at the surface you can say we are the same team but looking underneath the team dynamic is entirely different.
Sighing with a happy tone.
"What was that happy sound for?" I heard a sweet voice ask, right beside me.
I look at the girl who looking at me with soft eyes and I say, "this team will be a good fit for me." I finish off smiling at Rin and the team.
"Yeah, that makes sense, we've been doing teamwork exercises most of the day," Obito said looking up at the clouds in a normal tone, so I don't know if he was joking or saying it seriously.
*Laugh* "that's not what I meant your team-." I was cut off by the somewhat shy girl.
"Our team." She says in a connecting tone then look at me waiting for me to begin where I was cut off.
I laugh awkwardly as I scratch my back in my head. "Hu… our team… umm, our team seem to be all good people, and as a good back and forth trying to make everybody stronger," I say a little awkwardly because I let slip what I was originally going to say.
The team laughed. But Rin's giggle sounded adorable making me want to listen to it again.
"Yeah, we do make a good team," Obito shouted!
And we all started to laugh with happiness floating heavily in the air.
"I'm sorry for breaking a team bonding moment but Naruto needs to go to his appointment to pick out an apartment and get the keys." Minato says as he sits on the other side of the bridge.
I nodded with a smile and jumped up on my feet. I then absentmindedly started walking back to the village.
Before I can walk off the bridge my father shouted behind me, "at least take one of us to show you where it is."
I turn around with another smile and shouted back but now to the entire team "any volunteers?"
Rin stands up nicely and asks, "are you picking out a room, or is there one with your name on it?"
"I'm meeting up with the owner of a change." I say with a slight shrug.
She says as she walked over to me, "I'm in and I gonna help you pick out a good room."
"Why," I say sounding shocked, this type of stuff is super boring.
She shrugged when she got right in front of me and says simply "shopping."
*Nodding* "girls and there need to shop." I mumbled under my breath not loud enough for anybody to hear.
XxXxX
Sometime Later
Rin is standing in the main room standing over a simple couch. It looks like a nice place to sit down and have fun with some friends.
But Rin is standing there with her hands over her chest and a hand under her chin. Mumbling cutely as a young girl will do. Mumbling something about moving the furniture around and possibly getting something new to go with the look. Whatever "the looks" means.
I shrug I am on the other side of the bar dividing the kitchen and the den, to the nicely side apartment.
I look over to the superorder lady, who is possibly counting her great, great, grandchildren by now. She is looking at the young girl, also known as Rin, with the surface eyes I have ever seen. And her smile looks the same as Jiji's when he is thinking of his old days when he was young.
And that thought just made me smile.
"Naruto-chan."
"Yeah, granny?" I ask, now looking at the old lady who is the landowner.
"I know my old childhood friend is trying to touch my old girly strings."
"What? What do you mean by that?" I ask looking at her out of the corner of my eyes, my head is looking at Rin-Chan. Who is now, pending over an armrest for a loveseat, puffing up a pillow. With a soft and delicate smile.
She hummed softly for a moment and ask, "what do you do in your free time, Naruto-Chan?"
I shrug and say, "I train, and I eat ramen a lot."
"That does sound fun. And you are an Uzumaki so I can guess the ramen part."
I laughed loudly smiling greatly, noting that Rin look my way. In a loud happy tone, I say or shouted, "ramen is the food of the gods!"
The old granny laughed and sounded like an old granny watching her grandkids doing something cute. I didn't respond in fear the laugh will end and the feeling of the warmth from the laugh. Will end.
She then stopped her laugh after a moment but before the sadness in the loneliness returned to my heart she began to speak once again. "No matter what my loudmouth friends say, you are new to the village. So, go out meet people and settle down. You are strong even for an Uzumaki so take it from an old lady, act like the teenage boy you are for once."
I nodded slowly in understanding at least the part of making friends because I fight for my friends. But the other half was just confusing.
Before I get a panic attack the old lady speaks up again and asks, "what do you think of this place?"
"I like it and I think we will take it. Presides, I think Rin already has a full makeover of the place."
"Are you or Rin-chan will bargain the price? Or are you one of those people who say how much money they have and somehow it is just enough?" She asked in somewhat of a jokey tone.
I say quickly in shock without realizing the tone, "Yes, how do you know?"
She then laughed softly and then shouted to Rin, "Naruto-hun doesn't know how to bargain, so I am throwing him a branch and letting you do the bargaining!"
"What, what do you mean, I always get them to buy!" I shouted angrily but somehow after a moment, they both started laughing like I say the funniest thing on the planet.
Rin walk over to us and sat down at the bar and say with her hand holding up her chin, looking up at me, "sit back and watch the magic happen Naruto-Kun." She finished off with a just watch me smile. The half of me that traveled with Jiraiya for years found it extremely sexy just the way she is setting and the way she is looking up at me.
And it gives me shivers the ways she says the suffix at the end of my name. Sometimes, I see why Jiraiya is so into women.
"Oh, Rin-Chan," I say as the old lady, and I sit down. After I get seated next to Rin, I say as she looks at me out of the corner of my eyes, "you have the floor, Rin-Chan." I draw out the suffix, like what she did to me.
Rin looks at the old lady with an evil grin and says, "let's give Naruto-kun a good show, what do you think old hag."
"Yes," she says returning some grin. Somehow the old hag looks a million years younger. "I know girl, you are trying to show your value as a good housewife, but you have none."
I know she is trying to get into Rin's head, but I don't know the secrets of the women's coding system just yet. So, I can't decode it, sadly. Even now, I feel like the meaning is obvious.
Rin looked at the old lady, probably imaging which eye to stab out first.
I stay quiet in fair if I made a sound, they would pull out weapons and try to kill each other.
But when they begin, they didn't use the blade of steel, but they use the blade of words. Super scary it kind of reminds me of what Kurama nickname my talk no jutsu.
And.
My, God.
How can they both… survive the fight?
