The New Yellow Flash
Disclaimer: Naruto is not mine…end of story!
I Have Returned
Chapter 3
Dark clouds filled the once bright sky covering sight for all who wished to see, it was like the gods were crying down upon the sad soul of Uzimaki Naruto, even though he wasn't crying his eyes were dull and the shade from the trees seemed to make his hair fade from its once bright gold color.
As the two figures walked along the road the both wore distinct cloths and although the old white headed mans cloths hadn't changed in at least a good ten years the blonds' cloths were certainly new because he was wearing a black high collar sweat shirt with a zipper down the front, a pair of gray shinobi pants, black sandals and a black head band and last but not least a orange jacket with black flames coming up from the bottom and a blue inner fabric, his hair was longer and he was about six feet two inches tall, he had defiantly changed.
The sannin just smiled as he now literally looked up to his student but as he looked up he saw Naruto's eyes and began to be filled with dread.
'Four years…he's been like this for four years and there's nothing I could do about it' thought and then sighed the now even older toad sage as he continued to walk alongside his young seemingly emotionless student, he had tried many times to cheer the young boy no the young man from his now almost twenty four hour depressive state but when Jiriaya brought up something while Naruto was busy or a little upset he would just tune out the old hermit and keep walking to his destination.
And whenever Jiraiya brought up Sakura, Naruto would just stop in his tracks slowly turn his head towards the old female obsessed pervert and give him the most sinister look on the face of the earth and if Jiriaya didn't shut up after the evil look Naruto's eyes would change to the nine tailed foxes eyes and he would release so much killer intent it would make Jiriaya wet his pants and unfortunately the first time Jiriaya witnessed Naruto's EVIL EYE it was in front of some of his beloved lady friends, Jiriaya just sighed at the unfortunate memory and also the fact that Jiriaya gained a new nickname that day from the ladies.
Now of course the twenty year old ninja didn't completely act like a loveless puppy all the time he would talk with Jiriaya and on the occasion laugh and just have fun with the old hermit but it wasn't the same like it used to be because he just slowly locked his heart away and hid the key, in fact Jiriaya had noticed in the last town they were in Naruto had many stairs from all the women of the town and several winks came his way but he would just ignore them and continue on his way, and also Jiriaya remembered one girl that was so desperate to meet Naruto that she purposely bumped into him and requested she treat him to lunch as a apology, he remembered
how the girl tried to seduce Naruto by means that the sannin greatly envied, but in the end Naruto turned her down by saying.
'Listen miss I'm sorry but I'm not interested in anyone right now or in fact ever for that matter'
Jiriaya remembered the girl scream at Naruto and claimed he was gay and dick less, but Naruto just ignored her and her rumors until it was time to leave to the next village.
'What happened to you Naruto…what did your pink haired friend say to make you act like this' Jiriaya thought until his student began to speak.
"Jiriaya-sama are you ok?" Naruto said with a straight face.
"Huh…ah..yes I'm quite fine"
"Good because-" the young blond let out a soft chuckle "-were here"
The old hermit looked up ahead and sure enough their in front of him was the gate to Konoha just a few hundred feet away, and as the two continued to walk Jiriaya decided this would be the best time to ask his apprentice the question that had been on his mind for quite some time.
"Naruto?" Jiriaya said as he stopped and turned to face his student, when Naruto saw this he stopped and turned as well.
"Yes sensei?"
"Don't get upset when I ask you this…" Jiriaya paused and took a deep breath "..but at one point or another you're going to run into Sakura.." He paused once again and waited and as he looked at Naruto the boys' eyes seemed to brighten up at the thought.
Naruto opened his mouth and began to speak but he paused before any words came out, Jiriaya waited patiently for his students answer and he finally got it.
"Sensei I don't know…I mean part of me hates her but the other part still…loves her I mean I…I really don't know anymore what to think" Jiriaya just smiled because it was the first time in a long time Naruto had said anything to him about his feelings.
"Sensei?"
"Yeah Naruto?"
"I think I'm going to do what I originally planned to do"
"And what's that?" The old hermit asked with excitement clearly in his voice.
"Well I'm going to wait it out and see how she feels about me and also…see if she's…" Naruto paused and dread filled his eyes "….Married.."
Jiriaya went silent as well causing just the ere breeze and some birds to be heard around them.
"Well…" Jiriaya spoke trying his best to break the silence "We should go and meet Tsunade" Naruto finished for him, Jiriaya just nodded and the two continued inside Konoha.
After several minutes of walking the two made it to the Hokage's office and as soon as they entered Shizune instantly greeted them and had told Naruto how much older and taller he had gotten but after a few minutes of conversation Shizune said the Hokage would be upstairs and they could head up.
Once they reached the top of the stairs Naruto stretched his arms and then knocked at the Hokage's door.
Congratulations Sakura with this discovery the healing justsu's of all Konoha shinobi will be improved by nearly ten percent" Tsunade said with a smile clearly on her face.
"Thank you Tsunade-sama but it was nothing really" The pink haired young women replied with a smile.
"Well ether way you're getting full credit for this discovery-" Tsunade said with anther smile before she began to speak again "-I know this is a big jump from what we're talking about and don't take this offensively but I noticed that you've been turning down a lot of men why is that?"
Sakura gave her master a confused look until she decided to say "I just haven't found the right one yet" she stopped with a smile.
"Are you still heart struck over Naruto" Tsunade said looking at her student strait in the eyes.
Sakura just sighed "yes I still am"
"Listen Sakura I can't change what happened on that road four years ago but I promise you when he gets here I'm going to punch him so hard for leaving you to cry on that road like he did" Sakura just smiled as her master said this.
"Anyway Sakura do you have the reports on-"
KNOCK..KNOCK
"Ahh it must be Shizune with the traffic reports…COME IN" she said yelling the last part.
As the door opened she expected her pig carrying companion but instead she saw a tall blond and beside him the greatest pervert of her time.
As Naruto walked in to see Tsunade's face completely blank he realized a second person was in the room and sure enough it was… 'Fuck' was all he thought, Naruto glance over at Sakura and a slight pink tint covered his face, she was wearing a pink sleeveless shirt along with a pink skirt of some sort she was also wearing a pair of black boots and a brown glove on her left hand.
Jiraiya just smirked when he saw his students face have a light pink tint cover it 'so much for being cold towards her ah?'
As the room continued to be deadly silent Sakura finally turned around and what she saw was a young man about her age with blond hair blue eyes and….whisker marks and after seeing that she looked at him a little more and blushed, she finally managed to stutter out "Na..naru….to?"
Once Naruto heard her speak his thoughts were confirmed its was indeed Sakura Haruno well that is if she wasn't married, to make sure he glanced down to her left hand in search of a ring he found……none, relief surprisingly washed over him.
'Why am I feeling relived that she's not married and why am I blushing' Naruto thought to himself while he didn't relies Tsunade began to charge him with her fist drawn back.
Tsunade had decided to charge Naruto like she had promised Sakura several minutes ago her plan was to knock Naruto through the wall as she hopped over her desk Sakura's eyes widened as well as Jiraiya's and she enhanced her fist with as much chakra as she could with full intent to send Naruto through the village at blazing speeds.
Naruto instantly looked up to see Tsunade's fist about to connect with his face in the blink of an eye he was behind Tsunade with a finger pointed to her throat.
Tsunade was shocked her fist was about to connect with Naruto's head when suddenly he was gone and the next thing she knew there was one of his fingers pointed at her throat, she turned her head and saw Naruto's face she then spun around and sent anther punch at Naruto but he blocked it with one finger.
Naruto looked her in the eyes and spoke "I missed you too Tsunada-sama but if you want to fight lets a at least take this outside" Tsunade just sighed and decided to gave Naruto a hug, as Sakura saw this she was shocked Naruto moved so fast and he didn't even seem to be trying how was that possible she had thought and how did he stop her masters' punch with one finger.
"Well Naruto it's good to have you back how long will you be here this time?" Tsunade asked as she sat back in her Hokage chair.
"I have no plans on leaving unless it's for a mission Hokage-sama" Naruto said in a mono yet somewhat happy tone.
Tsunade was somewhat happy and somewhat sad when Naruto called her Hokage-sama or Tsunade-same because deep down she missed being called granny but right now that wasn't important, "Alright I will not be sending you on any missions for a while because of some pressing matters but you will receive a D rank mission because of your rank as soon as I can reinstate you.
Suddenly Jiraiya stepped forward and spoke for the first time "Actually Tsunade, Naruto should be assigned B or A ranked missions because of his rank just too clear things up"
"But he's still a genin isn't he" Tsunade said still slightly confused.
"Actually he's a Jonin" Jiraiya said with a smile.
Tsunade and Sakura both were surprised that Naruto was Jonin, Sakura stammered out and asked the question that Tsunade was about to "What?! When did you become a Jonin?!
Naruto just sighed he knew he would have to answer this but he didn't really want to go into detail "Alright I took the Chunin exams in the Sand village and the Jonin exams in the Mist village"
Tsunade just sighed before saying "Alright but I want the paper work for that in the morning and as well as that tomorrow the council wants to meet with you….understood?"
"Yes Hokage-sama" Naruto said in a quite serious tone.
"Naruto?" Tsunade said while smiling.
"Yes?"
"Lighten up a little"
Naruto sighed "Alright"
"Good well you'll need a place to sleep and right now the only place open is…..Sakura's apartment" Tsunade said with the biggest smile she'd ever conceived.
"WHAT?!" both Naruto and Sakura yelled out.
'Fate hates me' Naruto thought.
'At least there's two beds' thought Sakura.
"Wait!-" Naruto said as hope entered his eyes "-what about my apartment I coul-" but he was interrupted.
"Sorry Naruto but it was torn down last year" Tsunade said a little too happily.
"Any objections?"
Before anyone could speak Tsunade interrupted.
"GOOD!! Now Sakura show Naruto to his new home"
Both sighed and walked out the front office with a sigh.
As soon as they were out of sight Jiriaya busted out laughing along with Tsunade and after several minutes Jiriaya was able to speak "you know Tsunade their twenty years old and you practically ordered them to sleep together-" Jiriaya just paused to help regain himself "-anyway I'm just glad to see Naruto with a little more emotion" and with those words Tsunade smiled.
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An:
Thanks for reading and im sorry this chapter was late anyway if you can please review.
For the record this chapter was meant to be a little longer and also have a slightly different ending so I might change it one day, and once again I'm sorry this chapter came out 3 days late but I had a streak of writers block and a wave of lazyness but that's over now so expect more chapters soon.
For those of you who want to know what Naruto and Sakura look like I put up a link on my profile page so check it out if you have time.
Reviewer appreciation corner
wind797 : In a way yes but I don't want Naruto to be as cold as Sasuke.
twin083 : I considered it but decided against Naruto calling Sakura 'Haruno-san'.
Kaiser Aldamon : I hope I answered all your questions.
dbzgtfan2004 : They will but it will take time.
RSfan : Don't worry I plan on avoiding that.