Himitsu
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
Also for those who wishes to see what the characters look like, go to the link on my profile.
Pairings: For those who which to suggest pairings, sorry, but the pairings are already chosen for this story. This story will have both slash and hetero pairings.
What I can tell you is the pairings for some of the characters: LeeSakura, ChoujiIno, KakaIru
The rest of them will be kept a secret until later towards the end.
Ch2
Satoru knew that the others were probably wondering where he is at the moment, but he figured that it would be better if they'll just keep on wondering rather than hurrying back. Putting his hands into his pockets, he sauntered through the hallway, looking extremely bored of his life. He ignored the females' constant cooing and swooning of what he would look like in the future. He scoffed. As if he would be interested in a couple of shallow fossils. It doesn't matter if they managed to maintain their 'youthful beauty'. What's to say that they weren't using a jutsu like that old hokage?
If he was given a choice, or rather if he could, he could've killed his chichiue and married his hahaue. Of course, when he said that to his parents, his hahaue turned bright red with embarrassment and his chichiue just looked amused instead of threatened. Nagi shook his head as he said that he had an Oedipus complex. So what if he did? His hahaue is the perfect candidate, but like always his chichiue got to her first.
His parents' friends would always ask why his hahaue instead of his classmates around his age. The answers are quite simple. His hahaue's actions and words are always sincere, not once has she ever acted differently to get what she wanted. She's beautiful, she's kind, she's generous, she's strong…the list just keeps going on and on. His chichiue always said that hahaue is one of a kind and he agrees. There's nobody in the whole wide world like her.
Then…there's Naruto-niichan. A young man who found them in the forest, unconscious, without even asking for anything in return, he looked after them. Naruto-niichan's actions reminded Satoru of his hahaue. He figured it would've been nicer if Naruto-niichan became a Naruto-koi instead, gender didn't matter to him, but he knew it was no good. Even if he begged and pleaded with all his might, Naruto-niichan's heart belongs to someone else. And it is up to him and the others to find out who it is, that was the reason why they wanted to go ahead. Granted that there are a couple of possibilities, but using their parent's experience and happiness, they may be able to narrow down to the right choices.
Naruto-niichan needs somebody who understands him, loves him for his perfections and flaws, and never ever betray him. Okay, maybe his choice of Naruto-niichan's soul mate might've done that, but in the end, it was all cleared out. (AN: 3 guesses to find out who he's thinking of)
Satoru sighed and stopped walking around blindly. He studied his surroundings closely and saw a door that read 'Council Members Meeting Room'. Glancing at a nearby clock, he had only been wandering around for thirty minutes. Another thirty minutes wouldn't hurt, he figured, opening the door, he walked into the room as if he owned the place. Ignoring the old men and women in his opinion, despite them being middle aged, his eyes observed the circular shaped room. The semicircle facing the door had high rows of seats for the council members to sit, most likely allowing them to look down on the people they would be talking to.
The council members were getting ready for a meeting with the young kazekage when the door opened and a Sasuke look-a-like with blond hair walked in. They waited quietly and somewhat impatiently for an apology that never came.
"Excuse me," an old councilman said in an arrogant tone, thinking that the child might've been too much in awe of the room, despite the bored and unimpressed look on Satoru's face.
Still not looking at them, Satoru replied, "You're excused." He ignored the angry whispers of calling him a rude child. "Man, what a dump," he muttered softly, but loud enough for the adults to hear.
"EXCUSE ME!" this time it was a woman who shouted, banging her hands on the table.
Satoru rolled his eyes and glared at them. "What, you're as deaf as you're ugly? I just told you, you're excused."
"Young man, you best explain yourself. Who are you?" another woman demanded to know, "What rude manners! Your parents had done a poor job raising you."
Satoru's black eyes glared at them. "I'll have you know that hahaue has done a wonderful job raising me," he snarled. He turned his head to the side, scoffing, "You want to blame somebody, blame chichiue since everyone always say that I got my attitude from him."
"What is your name?" a man asked.
Satoru smirked. "It's common courtesy to introduce yourself before asking for someone else's name."
This man, if he was upset he didn't show it, instead he just smirked and was amused at Satoru's personality. He bowed his head and said, "Very well." He introduced himself as Hiashi Hyuuga.
The rest of the names he was given were those that were heads of major and minor clans of Konoha(1), and considered to be not important to Satoru. Just as Satoru was bout to say his name, the door slammed open with an angry Nagi glaring at him. "Satoru, what in the world are you doing, lollygagging around," he scolded, "Naruto-niichan's friends are supposed to take us to their homes right now and you're too busy terrorizing other people."
Satoru's lips just curled up at the end as he asked, "How did you know that? You wouldn't happen to be spying on me, were you?"
Nagi smacked Satoru on the head. "No," he replied, "I just happen to know you very well." He grabbed his arm and began to pull him to the door. "Now, let's go before you get someone mad enough to kill you."
"Too late," Satoru joked.
Nagi was about to kill his best friend when a blue butterfly flew in front of him. With one hand pulling on the other blonde's ear, he stretched out the other hand fro the insect to land on. "I guess Sora wants to know if I found you," he said softly. Glaring at the spiked hair blonde, he said, "Let's go before they start looking for you."
"Too late for that," Kumiko said, entering the room, "We're already here." She leaned against the doorway with her arms crossed over her chest. "You guys just took forever so we decided to send Sora's butterfly after you and come get you two."
Hiro entered into the room and stared at the way everything was positioned. "How egotistical of the council members to have their seats high up?" he wondered out loud, "It's almost like they enjoy looking down on other people."
"That's what I thought," Satoru said. He smacked Nagi's hand off of his ear. "The meeting room was the same back home until hahaue became the new leader," he said in a proud tone, "She remodeled everything so nobody would feel more superior or inferior to others."
"You really do have an Oedipus complex," Hiro said. He then glanced over to the oldest boy and said, "Then again, so does Minato."
"I do NOT have the sudden urge to kill chichiue to marry hahaue," Minato declared. He looked away and sighed, "I just admire her, that's all."
"They should really change this area," Satoru said in a sure voice, "Maybe if they do that, the council members won't act so stuck up."
"There you guys are." Hinata entered the room. Her pale white eyes widened when she spotted someone in the audience. "Otou-sama," she greeted, bowing her head.
"Hinata," Hiashi greeted back. He glanced over to the children and asked, "Your friends?"
Hinata shook her head as she smiled gently. "Naruto-kun found them stranded in a forest and asked if we could help shelter them until he comes back home," she explained, "Nagi-kun said that he will stay with us. Is that all right, otou-sama?"
"Who is this Nagi?" Hiashi asked. Nagi stepped forward and bowed politely. Hiashi was quite shocked to see the same eyes inherited through the Hyuuga genes staring at him, the only thing that appears to be not related to the Hyuuga would be his blond hair.
"Wwwwwhhhhheeeeeee!" Kimi squealed as she ran into the room with a small brown creature following her while barking. She skidded into a stop and glared at the older kids. "You left me behind," she accused them, with one hand pointing at them and the other on her hip, trying to look intimidating.
"We didn't ditch you, squirt," Hiro said, "We did leave you with Hiroki and Sora, you know." He leaned over Shinji, wrapping his left arm over his shoulders.
Kimi pouted at them and stamped her feet. "You could've taken me with you," she whined, "You know I hate being left behind."
"I thought you hate it when we baby you," Shinji said, smacking the blonde off of him. Hiro just continued to lean over him, completely ignoring the smacks. "Get off, Hiro, you're heavy," he sighed, giving up after five minutes.
"Exhausted," Hiro complained, which caused his friend to roll his eyes.
"That too," Kimi shouted, "You guys always treat me like a baby…"
"That's because you are," Satoru mumbled.
Either she didn't hear that or she's ignoring him, Kimi continued, "But I hate it more when you leave me behind and ignore me."
"Your chichiue spoiled you too much," Nagi groaned.
"Kimi, you shouldn't have run off like that," Sora said, "You're lucky I placed one of my butterflies on you so we could find out where you were." Hiroki followed after the slightly older raven-haired girl into the room. After saying that, the elders of the village looked surprised to see a blue butterfly come out of hiding in Kimi's hoodie and landed on Sora's shoulder, something commonly seen with the Aburame clan.
Minato clapped his hands to get the others' attentions. "Let's get going, we're probably holding up a meeting the council might be having," he said, "Why don't we settle down first and then meet up somewhere?"
"I'm hungry," Kimi injected.
Sighing, Minato added, "A restaurant, maybe."
Jumping up and down, Kimi shouted, "RAMEN!"
"The only place that serves that would be Ichiraku Ramen Bar," Hinata said.
"YES! THERE! NOW!" Kimi continued screaming impatiently.
"Oh my god, Naruto's got you obsessed," Sakura groaned in annoyance.
Hiroki shook his head. "No, she's always been like that," he said softly. He glanced over to Gaara. "Are we're going to meet them at the ramen place or shall I go with them and meet you there?"
Gaara took one look at Hiroki, who was staring at him with the same blank, but expecting expression. He glanced over to the council and said, "We'll have the meeting tomorrow. Is that all right with you?" He glared at them, as if daring them to oppose. Even if he had lost Shukaku, he is still intimidating, especially since he still can control sand with his will.
"Of course, kazekage-sama," one of them replied quickly, probably didn't want to see the room destroyed or his life end.
Kimi grabbed Kiba's hand and hurried him towards the door. "Let's go," she cheered, "The ramen is waiting for us."
"Are you sure you didn't become obsessed with that stuff cause of Naruto?" Kiba asked.
"Chichiue said that the reason why I like it so much is because when hahaue was still carrying me in her womb, ramen was all that she ate," Kimi explained. She then stopped and stared into space for a few seconds before looking back at Kiba, curiously. "What's a womb?" she asked.
Kiba felt his face drop when he heard that question directed to him. "It's where the fetus develops inside a female," he replied, hoping it would be the end of the question.
"Oh," Kimi said softly. She turned her head and was about to leave when she turned back to Kiba and asked, "What's a fetus?"
Kiba sighed deeply as he replied, "It's what we call a baby who isn't born yet."
"You mean like inside the hahaue's stomach?" Kimi asked. Kiba nodded his head. She tilted her head to the side as she thought quietly to herself. She stared at Kiba with curious blue eyes as she asked, "How do the babies get inside there?"
Kiba smacked himself in the face as he heard snickering behind him. "She did NOT just ask me that question," he muttered to himself. He knelt down to the floor and placed his hands on Kimi's shoulders. "Kimi, what I'm going to tell you is going to be a big secret. Can you keep a secret?" he asked. Kimi nodded her head energetically.
"Please tell me he isn't going to actually tell her," Neji muttered, "Honestly, who goes around telling kids about the birds and the bees."
"You see, it all starts when two people really really like each other so much that they get married. And when they want to start a family, they would go out to a temple and make a wish. The gods protecting the temple would give them a small seed, which they would have to plant in a garden near their home so when a stork comes and brings the seed to his headquarters, where it would grow into a baby. After the baby is formed, the stork will bring the baby back to the family where they got the seed," Kiba explained.
"Oh come on," Sasuke muttered, "Like she's gonna believe that."
Kimi just stared at him with wide blinking blue eyes, completely oblivious of the shaking heads and snickering behind her. "Then how come hahaue's stomach becomes so big," she said, with her arms making a big circle to emphasize the exaggeration of size.
"Just shut up," Shino advised softly.
Kiba scratched the back of his head and continued the tall tale, "They only made it look like it's growing big, but it's really just a henge that females put over themselves."
"But civilians can't do any jutsus," Kimi argued, "How did they put the henge over themselves?"
Ino shook her head and muttered, "Just stop, Kiba. This is going nowhere."
"They ask a shinobi to do it for them and get paid like it was a D-ranked mission," Kiba replied, completely ignoring his friends. Kimi closed her eyes to think; she opened her mouth and was about to ask another question when Kiba stopped her. "Weren't we going to head on to my place and then meet up at the ramen bar?"
Kimi's ears perked up as she grabbed Kiba's hand. "LET'S GO!" she shouted, running out of the room.
"Yup, she's obsessed," Shinji said. He sighed deeply, muttering the word, "Yakkai."
Hiro just laughed as he added, "If ramen was all that was eaten when Kimi was in the womb, no wonder."
Shikamaru glanced over at Shinji, who just stared back at him with a small smirk that seemed to say, 'I know something that you don't and I'm not going to tell you what it is.' A mystery that is worth examining, no matter how troublesome.
TBC
IMPORTANT: Hope you all like this chapter. If you do, PLEASE, I repeat, PLEASE update. For chapter 1, I only received one review, which really sucked for me. I was so disappointed in my other story, The Wife of Four, because of the two reviews I received for the recent chapter. It would help lighten my heart to see people's opinion in reviews rather than getting emails of people putting my stories in their profile's favorite.
(1) I don't really feel like writing a list of all the council members for certain reasons: (a) Not really sure who is on the council other than the Sandaime Hokage's teammates and (b) Just too damn lazy.