I know I've been uploading chapters like crazy recently, trying to get the story started, but I think I'm only going to be uploading every Monday to give myself a break, plus school is starting back up, so that always comes first.
By the way, THANK YOU for my first review! I squealed and kept clapping my hands while hopping in the seat. Then I got up and played "check yes Juliet" by We the Kings, then played that over 5 times dancing to it. I was really, just that happy. Thank you people for following and favoring my story ;-; it means a lot, it really does.
EDIT: i didnt realize that i put down what she looked like twice, so i edited out a paragraph not needed.
Enjoy Chapter 4 everybody (less than three sign)
Chapter 4
Things Change
3rd Person view
Four more years have past, meaning that Asuka is now ten years of age. The training with Might Guy is near to an end, because he has to prepare to having a squad to train instead of the one student. She continued to work for the Hokage though, so her friendship has build up with him during the six years of being around him.
Hatsuharu has grown too, nearly as tall as Asuka being on all fours, and she's only 4ft 4". He's learned things that only a dog can do. And thanks to the time spent together with his companion, they can basically read each others minds now.
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Asuka woke up with Hatsuharu jumping on her stomach.
Another morning… she thought to herself as she got to the bathroom to take her shower and brush then fix her nearly butt-length dark purple hair. Putting the top half of her hair into a pony-tail, brushing her eye-length bangs to the right, showing off her milk chocolate brown eyes. She did the rest of her routine, brushing her teeth and putting her clothes on.
A black long-tight sleeved dress that reached to her knees with a purple hoodie-top that was loose on her, it only covered the ribcage and was too long for her arms; putting on her black tights and black sandals.
There was a knock on the door and Hatsuharu answered it; he barked, letting Asuka know it was for her. She got to the door to see it was one of the ANBU agents.
"The Hokage would like to see you as soon as possible Asuka-chan." He spoke.
She swallowed the lump in her thought, feeling that she did something bad with Naruto and Kiba again. "I'll get there as soon as possible." she nodded to him.
"Would you like for me to escort you then?" he asked.
"N-no, I just need to get a few things done before going." She answered.
"As you wish." He replied before quickly going elsewhere.
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"Do you know why I called you in here this morning Asuka?" the Hokage asked.
"No sir, I don't." she answered.
"Your ten years old, and you're still not enrolled in school." He stated.
"Nobody told me I had to attend, do I?" she asked.
"Yes, you do, in order for you to be a chunin, you have to take the chunin exams. And since I haven't been paying close attention to Guy's training methods, you've become better than the other students that are only one year from graduating. You're suppose to be in the grade below that, so I am putting you in the upper class, ahead of the class your suppose to be in. The grade above Naruto's."
"So, I'll be in Rock Lee's class?" she asked.
"Yes, don't get distracted in class, I want you to learn, and support, understood?" he said in his stern voice.
"Yes sir." She acknowledged.
"Good, you attend tomorrow at 8pm sharp, don't be tardy on the first day, and you don't have to work today."
"I won't sir," she bowed before exiting the room, "thank you." she shut the door behind her and looked at Hatsuharu, "Well, it had to happen sometime eh boy?" she petted him before walking outside with him behind her. "Let's go home boy, I wanna change clothes." she climbed onto his back and they headed off to their apartment.
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There was knocking on the door and Asuka answered it. "Hey Naruto! It's nice to see you!" she hugged him and he hugged back, they released and she got a better look at his clothes, he was wearing a big orange suit it looked like, better than the regular white T-shirt and shorts he wore.
"Hey Asuka!" he acknowledged, "It's good to see you too! Wanna go eat some ramen?"
"Sure! Wait… are you skipping again?" she stared at him with daggers in her eyes.
He hunched his shoulders looking away, "Um… define 'skip'." Kiba, Choji, and Shikamaru showed up at the door.
"Hey Asuka!" Kiba piped up while waving at her. Akamaru shoved his head out of Kiba's jacket and barked happily.
"I'm sure that Iruka sensei is already looking for you." she stated.
"Probably." Choji replied while eating his bag of chips.
She looked over Naruto's shoulder. "Speak of the devil and he shall appear."
All four of them turned around to a VERY angery Iruka, "YOU ARE ALL IN BIG TROUBLE!" Iruka shouted. "GET BACK TO SCHOOL OR ELSE YOUR USUAL PUNISHMENT WILL BE WORSE!"
"Yes sensei!" all four of them said as they ran off toward school.
Iruka pinched the bridge of his nose then looked at Asuka. "Sorry Asuka-chan, have a good day." He walked away as she closed the door.
"Wanna still go eat ramen?" she looked at Hatsuharu, he nodded and smiled. "Alright then," she opened the door, "after you."
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"Your ramen will always be the best sir!" Asuka said with pride to the owner.
"Thank you Asuka," he replied, "but you're still not my number one customer you know."
She giggled and said, "I know, Naruto's place will be taken one day."
He did his hardy laugh and replied, "That'll be the day my daughter takes over."
The young woman smiled at her father, then returned back to work.
"Have you had enough boy?" Asuka piped up to Hatsuharu, he nodded his head and then looked behind her. A pair of hands covered Asuka's eyes.
"Guess who!" whoever it was, they were masking their voice with a deeper, more unusual voice.
"hm… can I feel the hands?" she asked as she held the hands that covered her.
"No! That's cheating!" the voice was shaking her head side to side.
"How is that cheating Lee!" she laughed and took off his hands to see it was Lee. He stepped back and held up her apartment key. "Hey! No fair!" she jumped off her seat and ran after him. They've been training together for a few years only after months of meeting each other. But his determination was a bit more than her, so he was just a little bit faster and stronger than her. But she had a secret weapon.
"Hey!" Lee shouted, "You can't use Hatsuharu! That's cheating!" he said barely ahead of them.
"So covering my eyes and taking my keys ISNT cheating either?!" she shouted right when she pounced on him. They rolled over each other several times before Asuka got her key back. Lee was on top of her, locking eye contact, both of them are panting. Then she studied his face a bit more and found that his nose was blood. "I made your nose bleed, sorry."
He touched his lip then looked at his hand to see that it was true. He got up and so did she. "It's fine, it's nothing really."
"No it's not," she denied, "I broke your nose."
He cross eyed, seeing the swelling on his nose then touching it, cringing with pain. "Yeah, you broke it alright." then his eyes shot open, seeing that she's hurt too. "Um… your shoulder doesn't look too good either."
"What do you mean? I feel fine." Then she looked at her shoulder, seeing that he wasn't lying, there was a piece of broken tile sticking out of her shoulder. She took deep breaths, trying not to think about it. "To the hospital then?"
"Yah, I think that's best." He complied.
"Come on then." she climbed onto Hatsuharu while Lee got behind her, holding her waist. "Be gentle boy, my good shoulder isn't the best right now." he nodded his head and ran off.
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Asuka was sitting up on the hospital bed, letting the nurse stitch her wound together. "You should be better within a couple of days. You better be grateful we have good healers here," the nurse said, "try not to do anything stupid." She winked and smiled before walking away. Hatsuharu was licking her stitch, then with a sour look on his face, he tried cleaning his tongue because of the taste of antibiotics. She smiled and petted him, then looked at the door to see that Lee is at the foot of it.
She got off her bed and hugged Lee, when he hugged her back he accidentally hit her bad shoulder. She backed off and held her shoulder while cringing. "I'm sorry Asuka." He apologized.
She flashed him a toothy smile and said, "It's fine, it's you so I wont hit you."
He smiled back gestured her to exit the room with him. She nodded her head and went as Hatsuharu followed.
"How's your nose?" she asked Lee.
"It's fine, or, will be within a few days." He answered, "What about your shoulder?"
"It'll be fine in a few days too." They exited the hospital; the sun was still in the middle of the sky, so it was barley in the afternoon. "Hey, I nearly forgot to tell you something."
Lee looked at her with concern, "What is it Asuka?"
"I'm going to be going to the academy starting tomorrow." She answered, "And due to Guy sensei's training, I'm able to skip a grade and be in your class."
His eyes were a mile wide with happiness. Then he hugged her, wrapping his arms around her waist with her arms inside, picked her up and spun her around. She ignored the pain surging through her shoulder, but she ignored it, because she like being hugged, and picked up. He set her back down and cleared his throat. "Sorry… was that weird for you." he let his head hang as he looked back at me."
She flashed him a smile, "Nope!" and with that, she picked him up and hugged him. They both laughed and she put him down. "Your it." she got on Hatsuharu and he ran off, leaving Lee behind.
"Wait! We're playing tag now?!" he ran after her, continuing to accuse her of cheating by being on Hatsuharu.
They were running now, not at full speed thought, Asuka didn't want to leave Lee in their dust. She laughed the whole way; she missed this, just playing with Lee. Her training with Guy, and sometimes Kakashi when Guy was on missions; she didn't get to play with Lee like this. She was always too exhausted to play after training.
She was deep in her thoughts, remembering the 'old days' when Lee jumped out of nowhere and tagged her from above, landing next to her, then ran off with a big grin on his face.
"Hey!" she yelled out to him, "Get back here!" Hatsuharu ran after him, but she stopped him. "Wait Hatsuharu, I have an idea." She pointed in the direction of her eye sight, Hatsuharu wagged his tail with agreement and ran after the target. "YOUR MINE!" Asuka pounced on her prey, "You're it Naruto!"
She had tackled him to the ground without hurting him and hoped on Hatsuharu and ran off.
"Are we playing tag!?" Naruto yelled at her.
"YES!" she yelled back. After she was far enough from Naruto, she hid in a little cave that was in the city that apparently no one new of. "I think we're safe boy." She petted Hatsuharu and slid off his back, sitting on the soft, warm dirt.
Not long after settling, they herd running footsteps toward their cave. they both remained silent in suspense, as the foot steps got louder and louder. Somebody dove into the cave without looking, landing on top of Asuka, head butting her nose.
"OW!" Asuka shrieked.
"I am so sorry!" Lee apologized, "I didn't mean to- Asuka? When did you find this cave?"
"Long before you did," she replied, rubbing her nose, feeling thick liquid slide down her cheeks.
"Your nose! It's bleeding!" he stated as he got off and helped Asuka sit up.
"What?" she felt under her nose to see Lee was right. Then she giggled.
"What's so funny?" he asked with a confused look on his face, "Did I hit your head up against a rock or something?"
She punched his arm "No, it's just ironic."
He rubbed his arm, "Ironic? How so?"
She playfully rolled her eyes and looked away, "I've head butted you several times on the nose before, finally it's happened to me." She stared into him with her soft brown eyes. "I can't see how you could have put up with me over the years."
He cheerfully grinned and stretched, "Well I don't know either Asuka, you are hard to deal with, hitting me all the time, whether its by accident or rarely on purpose-" he kept naming things off, but Asuka hugged him. He hugged back, "What's this for?"
"For being a good friend." They released, and she pecked him on the cheek.
He blushed, holding his cheek; he turned cherry red and fell over on his back.
She giggled to herself and scooted over to Lee's face, putting his head on her lap, stroking his hair.
"Hey look!" Naruto bursted out with Kiba by his side. "Bushy Brows and Asuka are boyfriend and girlfriend!" he started to die of laughter on the ground.
"They are just the CUTEST couple I have ever seen," Kiba fake swooned "aren't they Naruto?"
Naruto quickly got up, "Young love, what could be better?" They grinned and laughed to each other.
She just shook her head and threw two big rocks at them, hitting them in the head and watching them fall to the ground with their legs in the air twitching.
Well, what did you think? Finally got some romance in the air huh? ;) and they're only kids, which makes it cuter in my opinion.
See you on 1/14/13