Naruto: Revenge of the Fallen

Author's Note: Like I said on my Adventures of Legends story, school has been taking up all of my time. I'm sorry. I hope you all enjoy this chapter. I also hope you guys had a Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year! 2017 here we come!

Chapter 3: Christmas & New Year

It's been peaceful in Konoha, even after Naruto scared the crap outta all his friends from going away and then suddenly appearing again. As much as he dislikes it, he's been taking it slow ever since his hospital visit. At least it's Christmas Eve.

"Putting a restriction on me, huh!? Who do they think they are?!" screamed Naruto, smashing almost everything in his apartment. It was tough because he knew he wanted to be out there fighting with his friends, but since things went so weird to the point where nobody even knew what happened, they decided to play it safe with the knucklehead. Looking outside of his window, there was a whole bunch of snow, and tons of people were in the Christmas Spirit.

Though, the main thing that broke Naruto's heart was when he saw people with families. You know, families that were clearly happy that they were able to be together during this time of the year. Unfortunately for Naruto... he doesn't have that, nor has he ever had it to begin with. Loneliness has described his life.

"Uuuuggghhhh... This is just great..." he slouched, slowly nodding his head. Then, he heard a knock on the door. He turned around, and simply said, "It's unlocked."

The person opened the door.

"Well, I'm glad to see that you got the door fixed, at least."

It was Sasuke.

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever. It had to be done since I'm not able to go on missions anymore. You and Sakura have been having all the fun lately." Naruto rolled his eyes as he just thought about the situation he was going through.

"Oh come on, you loser. You're acting like it's permanent. It won't be too much longer before you're out there again." Sasuke smirked. "I'm mainly just checking in on you. I wanted to ask how you were doing, but I know now that I don't even have to ask." Obviously, it was clear that Naruto wasn't in the best mood.

"Sorry for acting like a jerk... I've just been going through a lot lately." Naruto said, turning back to the window and seeing more families having the best time of their lives.

"It's fine. You get a pass for now, but the next time you do it, your jaw is getting broken." replied Sasuke, in a sly yet joking manner. "I'll probably check on you tomorrow since it's gonna be Christmas. Don't act like this on that day, where it's supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year." he said, walking out.

"Oh yeah, I'll try not to..." Naruto muttered. He exited his apartment and decided to walk in the snow. He saw the festive environemt currently going on, and he tried to get himself happy because of it, but it simply wasn't working. "Why did I even come out here..." he said to himself. There was only one place he could think of going to, and that would be Ino's flower place.

With a sigh, he walked in and gave a light wave. "Hey, Ino."

Ino immediately noticed who it was, running to the fellow blond. She instantly hugged him tightly. "Naruto! How are you doing?"

When she asked this question, Naruto was barely breathing. "I w-would be doing b-better if you weren't c-crushing the life outta me..."

With that being said, Ino noticed what she was doing and quickly stopped. "Sorry. I just don't see you that much anymore. In fact, all of us don't see you that much, to be honest. You need to stop being in that apartment of yours and actually see the world."

"Yeah, see the world... When I don't have a family to enjoy it with..." he said sadly, with a clear sigh. Ino's heart dropped when Naruto said this. She just couldn't take it when Naruto was in any type of pain, especially when it had something to do with his rough past.

To surprise him somewhat, she went to back of the flower shop, and soon returned in front of Naruto with a daisy in her hand. "Naruto, take this as an early Christmas present."

Naruto's eyes widened at the early Christmas gift. In a way, it made him feel guilty for not even getting her a gift. Heck, he hasn't given anybody a gift. Some guy he is, right?

"Uh... Thanks, Ino. I appreciate it."

"And you're also invited to spend Christmas with my family tommorrow."

"What?"

"You heard me, Naruto. Don't be late." she said, giving a sweet smile and yet another hug. It wasn't a bone crushing hug this time around, it was just normal. Naruto hugged her back, and this time he closed his eyes. Then, Ino felt something odd. It was wet, and it looked like it was coming down from Naruto's eyes.

"Naruto... Are you crying?"

"What?! Me?! Nah, you got it all wrong!"

"Naruto, I clearly see tears streaming down your face."

"Um... uh... you're seeing things! Yeah, that's it!"

"Naruto, I'll take your tears as a thank you." Ino sweetly said.

Naruto tried to hide his tears, but seeing it was useless, he basically said, "Screw it." He wiped the tears off his face, facing Ino directly. "Thank you, Ino. You don't know how much this means to me."

"You're welcome, Naruto."

On Christmas Day

Inoichi was keeping a close eye on Naruto, making sure he wouldn't try anything on Ino. Her mother wasn't worried about him, though. Naruto made sure to get gifts for his friends, and he personally gave Ino a beautiful set of flowers...from her shop...again. Hey, at least he did something, right?

"MERRY CHRISTMAS! THANK YOU GUYS FOR LETTING ME COME HERE!"

"You're welcome!" Ino and her mother said, with Inoichi still watching Naruto like a hawk. After the gifts were opened, he looked to see Naruto and Ino get up. They were about to walk outside, and just above them, there was a mistletoe. Naruto and Ino both blushed hard when they noticed this, and Inoichi wasn't going to let anything happen to his baby girl.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Inoichi screamed, getting up and instantly tackled Naruto into the snow outside. It looked like the two were wrestling, as Ino and her mother could only facepalm at the sight. Outside, Sasuke and Sakura saw what was going on and could only burst out laughing.

Now, let's transfer to New Year's Eve...where's there's about 3 seconds before it's actually the New Year...

"3...2...1...HAPPY NEW YEAR!"

All of Konoha said this in unison, celebrating in the loud fashion they should. Though, there were two people that always stood out. The two blonds, of course. "WOOOOO! Isn't this great, Ino?! This is gonna be the year I become the greatest ninja ever!" I mean, Naruto already thought that he was the greatest ninja ever, but he was just saying it to fit in with the New Year resolution stuff.

"I'll make sure to get a front row seat to the show, Naruto." she said, suddenly kissing him straight on the lips. It was no harm since it was the New Year, right? Everybody was kissing eachother, so it shouldn't come as a surprise. Well, the kiss completely caught Naruto off guard, because he didn't even have time to react. When the kiss ended, Ino continued to celebrate with the crowd, leaving Naruto shocked beyond belief.

"Uh...what just happened...?" Naruto thought to himself.

"I think she just kissed you straight on the lips." replied Kurama, stating the complete obvious. "I wouldn't look too much into it, though. Kissing people seems to be a New Years thing. You just happened to be the nearest guy to her."

"Haha! Yeah, that's probably it..."

"Seriously, what the heck just happened?!"

"I'M GOING TO KILL YOOUUUUUUUU!" exclaimed Inoichi, as Naruto turned around to see an angry father that's overprotective of his daughter. You would think that Naruto had just committed murder.

"OH MAN, NOT AGAIN!" He yelled, being tackled once more.

Author's Note: Yeah, both of these are late...And majorly rushed, I think. You can consider this chapter 3 (because if this was an actual chapter, I think it would be trash), but I consider it as a side chapter of some sort. It's mainly supposed to get the story rolling again. However, with the next chapter I make, I intend to make it great. Aaaannnnd that's all I'm saying right now. ;)

Also, Naruto and Ino aren't in a relationship... It was just a New Years kiss, lulz.

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