Naruto dodged some kunai the enemy ninja threw and threw some shuriken of her own. She then kicked off of a tree she landed on aimed straight at the enemy. She managed to hit him in the stomach, causing him to cough up blood. She kicked at his head, followed by a punch to the stomach when he blocked. Naruto aimed another kick at his stomach, but he blocked leaving her wide open. Naruto was hit in the chest, possibly breaking one or more ribs, and flew back hitting a tree. She fell forward onto her hands and knees, blood dripping out of her mouth, and a sharp pain in her chest. She then felt something she never felt before, but it felt familiar like an enemy from the past.
A red chakra started to cloak her body, all her wounds closed faster, her bones mended themselves, and her chakra supply filled back up and increased dramatically in size. Her eyes turned red and slitted, and the whisker marks on her cheeks grew ragged like a feral beast. But, most of all, she felt the hate and anger the chakra carried and knew that it was evil. She decided to use the chakra to defeat the masked ninja but never again after that. She stood up and looked at the man.
The ninja watched as her wounds closed up, as a red chakra cloaked her body, as it sank beneath her skin into her chakra network. He watched as she stood up, as she looked into his eyes with those demonic red orbs. He knew this kid was evil, he knew it but he was going to kill her anyway. He took off at a speed that shouldn't have been in her range, but she stopped his punch with one arm.
Naruto stopped the punch with one arm, halting his forward movement. She kicked him in the stomach, followed by an upward kick to his chin, making him fly up. Naruto disappeared and reappeared over him. She looked him dead in the eyes and smiled evily, she knew and he knew that he was going to get hurt. Naruto created two kage bunshins and proceeded to punish the man with blow after blow. Then, as they approached the ground, all three Naruto's kicked him as hard as they could. The ninja created a large crater in the ground with his body. He was unconscious, almost every part of his was bruised, he had more than a few broken bones and he had no chakra.
The red chakra left Naruto's body, leaving Naruto weary and sore. Her muscles weren't used to that kind of strain, and she could barely keep her eyes open as the returned to their cool, still blue. She stumbled over to where Kakashi was and sat down beside him. He was beat up, his Sharingan eye had a new cut over it, his legs were broken, one of his arms were broken, he had three broken ribs and a kunai in his stomach. Naruto's eyes started to water as she realized that he wasn't going to make it.
"Kakashi-sensei, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to," she started to say sobbing.
"It's *cough* it's okay Naruto, I took care of most of them. I'm just sorry *cough* sorry that I couldn't finish *cough* finish that last one off. You need to *cough* take Sasuke and Sakura back *cough, cough* back to Konoha," Kakashi said closing his good eye in a weak imitation of his usual eye smile.
"I won't leave you Kakashi-sensei, I don't want you to die," Naruto said sobbing harder. She didn't like to admit it, but Kakashi was the closest to a father she ever had. Just as Naruto was going to lean over Kakashi and cry into his vest, a group of Konoha medical-nin showed up and immediately went to work on Kakashi. It took all of them to stop the internal bleeding and pull out the Kunai. They patched him up to the point where he wouldn't die right there, but unless he was in the hospital it was a high possibility. They put him on a hand carried stretcher and took off toward Konoha with haste.
Naruto walked over to Sasuke and Sakura, who were both knocked out by the enemy before Kakashi could stop them from attacking the genin. She woke them up and told them that they were to head for Konoha right before she passed out. Sasuke looked over at Sakura who was looking around in surprise, there were roughly 20 enemy ninja bodies lying around the clearing. Most were clearly dead while others were just knocked out. Sasuke sighed and picked Naruto up, blushing a little as her ripped jacket revealed that she wasn't wearing anything under the mesh shirt, and put her on his back piggy back style. He then took off toward Konoha, jumping from tree to tree. Once in Konoha, he dropped Naruto off in the hospital and both headed home for a nice shower and some real rest.
Naruto woke up in a soft bed in a white gown, in a room painted white with white furniture. The only light was provided from the moon shining in the window. Naruto sat up, body still sore but the pain was gone. She stood and walked over to the window and leaned against it, watching the stars in the sky. She stood there for hours just watching the moon trace a path across the sky.
Naruto turned away from the window and saw Sakura standing in the door. Naruto looked at her and found that when Sakura dressed casually, she was gorgeous. Sakura was wearing a red sundress, falling just short of her knees, and had a red ribbon in her hair holding it off her face. Her clear green eyes showed concern and happiness. Naruto looked down at her own attire and found that she was still in the hospital gown.
"Hi Sakura-chan. What are you doing here this early?" Naruto asked walking over to the wardrobe in the room.
"I wanted to check on you and Kakashi-sensei," Sakura said stepping in and shutting the door.
"Oh. Okay, I'm doing fine. Still a little sore, but I'll be fine," Naruto said, pulling the gown off.
Sakura looked at Naruto's smooth skin, her rounded butt, her petite figure. Sakura blushed and turned away. She never thought she would look at a female that way, but Naruto was just beautiful. Smooth tanned skin, petite frame, blue eyes, all topped with a golden blonde crown of hair. Sakura was confused why she felt that way.
Naruto put on her shirt and turned around, pulling her shorts up. She saw Sakura looking at the wall blushing and realized why she hadn't said anything. Naruto finished getting dressed quickly and walked over to Sakura.
"I need to go home and take a shower. Why don't you come over to my place and you can stay the night tonight?" Naruto asked turning Sakura to look at her.
Sakura looked at Naruto and found she was dressed. She thought about it and thought it would be fun to hang out so she said, "Sure, but can I bring a friend or two?"
"That's fine, I have a big house. Just no boys okay?"
"Hehehe, okay! See you in tonight!" Sakura said turning around and opening the door. She almost shut it when she remembered that she didn't know where Naruto lived. She opened the door all the way up and asked, "Where is your house?"
"I live at the Namikaze compound. Just ask anyone and they will tell you where it is," Naruto said smiling. It would be the first time she had anyone over in her entire life, any friends over anyway.
"Okay!" Sakura said leaving.
That night found Naruto sitting in her living room in shorts and a tank top with her hair in two pigtails on the side of her head. She was sitting on an over-stuffed chair looking out her back window at the garden that her mother no doubt planted. The doorbell rang, and she got up and walked to the front door. Standing out there were 4 girls. One was Sakura, but there were three that she didn't know. One was the same height as Sakura with long blond hair styled so that her bangs covered one eye. The second one was taller than them with short brunette hair. The third one had short black hair cut short but her bangs framed her face.
"Hi! I brought some friends, do you know them?" Sakura said with a grin.
"I never met them, but I've seen them. Weren't they in our class at the Academy?" Naruto said.
"Yeah, this is my close friend Ino," she said pointing at the blond, "This is Tenten, she graduated a year before us," she said pointing at the brunette, "And this is Hinata," she said pointing at the girl with black hair.
"Hi Naruto!" Ino said, "I never knew that you had such a nice house!"
"Yeah! It's so big, you could have a party here!" Tenten said.
"I-it's n-nice to m-meet you N-Naruto-kun," Hinata said shyly, blushing and tapping her forefingers together.
"It's nice to meet all of you, come on in. I have some food in the kitchen if you're hungry," Naruto said.
"Oh, I'm starved," Tenten said walking past and taking her shoes off. She was followed by Sakura and Ino who were agreeing with her, then by Hinata who followed shyly.
They raided Naruto's kitchen and found crackers, cheese, ham, sliced fruits and juice. They brought it all into the carpeted living room and set it on the short coffee table before pushing the couches and chairs to the walls and sitting on the carpet.
"Hey! Why are you moving the furniture?" Naruto protested.
"Well, we can just sit on the carpet. It'll be fine, we'll move it back later," Ino said.
"Why don't we get in our night gowns?" Tenten said.
"Ooh, good idea," Sakura said.
"Naruto? Where's the bathroom?" Ino asked.
"Up the stairs, first door on the left," Naruto said pointing up the stairs.
Naruto turned back around and saw Tenten and Sakura with their heads together, giggling. She decided that it would be best to stop whatever they had planned.
"What are you doing guys?" she asked.
"Nothing, Naruto. We were just talking about, ummmmm," Sakura said.
"We were talking about Sasuke and his apparent interest in you," Tenten said giggling.
"Wh-what?!" Naruto said shocked. "Sasuke is not interested in me!"
"Oh yes he is, he doesn't want to hit you when you and him spar, he is always staring at you behind your back, he is always distracted around you. There is only one explanation to all of this: he likes you," Sakura said.
"Well fine then, he likes me. So what? It's not like I like him or anything," Naruto said turning her head.
"How could you not like him? He is sooo cool and strong, best of all he is available," Tenten said giggling some more. Naruto just looked at her incredulously. Sasuke was so distant that he declined everyone who tried to even talk to him except for in school and he was asked a question by the teacher. He opened up a little from hanging around Naruto, Sakura, and Kakashi, but he wasn't going to want a relationship soon.
"Oi, Naruto!" Ino yelled from the second floor. "Can you come here for a sec?"
"Coming!" Naruto yelled back before standing up. "I'll be right back," she told the girls and walked up the stairs.
Naruto walked into the bathroom and found a naked Ino in the foggy bathroom. "Did you take a shower?"
"Of course, I take a shower every night," Ino said walking toward Naruto. "I just had a question."
"Okay, what do you need?" Naruto asked.
"Where do you keep the towels?"
"Oh man. I forgot there were no towels in this bathroom. Follow me. I'll take you to the towels," Naruto said turning around. Ino followed her to the master bedroom's bathroom. Ino looked around as soon as she walked into the master bedroom. There were scrolls spread out across the other side of the room, the bed wasn't made and there were a few panties on top of the blankets.
"Naruto, this room is so dirty," Ino said wrinkling her nose at the smell of dirty laundry.
"Well I wasn't expecting to have to bring anyone in here," Naruto said, "I barely had time to clean downstairs. Ah, here they are." Naruto grabbed a stack of fresh clean towels and handed one to Ino.
"Arigato," Ino said wrapping herself in it and walking out of the room as fast as possible.
Naruto sighed and walked to the hall bathroom and deposited the towels on a shelf in there. She walked to the stairs and looked over the balcony. The sight in front of her was so funny she almost fell down the stairs laughing.
Sakura was in panties on her knees holding a pillow up as a shield. Hinata was laying in front of her in bra and panties, her head close to Sakura's knees. Ino lost her towel when she jumped down, she had grabbed a pillow and was swinging it at Sakura. Tenten was naked and trying desperately to cover herself. Naruto's laugh stopped the action beneath her. They all looked up at her like she was crazy, thinking 'What's so funny?'
"Naruto, what's so funny?" Sakura asked without lowering her pillow shield.
Naruto stopped laughing and continued to giggle as she said, "I never expected you guys to be having so much fun at my house. I've never seen that game before, what's it called?"
"You've never had a pillow fight?" Ino asked incredulously.
"I raised myself. I never had any friends, or even a respectable house to bring them to," Naruto said growing a little somber.
"It's okay, just come and play with us," Tenten said, abandoning her efforts to cover herself and running up the stairs. She pulled Naruto down the stairs and handed her a pillow. They taught Naruto to loosen up from her usual self and have fun with girls her age. They played around until 3 a.m. before going to sleep, mostly naked, on the living room floor.
Author's Note:
Sorry about the delay, but my schools internet is really patchy and I could barely get enough signal time to log in until now. It should be fixed though and I will try to update faster. I have a few things to say. First: I'm still not getting as many reviews as I would like. Second: My school work is picking up so I will have less time to do this and have to spend more time on school. Third: The more reviews I get, the more time I will make to write these stories. That goes for all my stories. So please review, let me know you like it or if you don't. Let me know what I'm doing wrong if you don't like it. It doesn't take long. Anyway, goodnight!