AN: -hugs reviewers and throws cookies all around- I LOVE YOU XD
And I can't believe so many people love the heap of mold XD –laughs- I gotta admit, she has grown on me a bit as well (not literally o.o)
You think she counts as a Mary-Sue XD?
Anyway, because I actually already have over 100 reviews for this, I've decided to make a short side-story, or missing scene, or whatever you like to call it, about how Naruto befriended Kinrui-chan n.n
Also, I haven't read the Naruto manga up to chapter 300 I think, so it's probably a bit AU, this chapter x.x
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-----Side-story: A Heart To Heart Talk With Kinrui-chan-----
"Let's see," Naruto said as he was preparing breakfast. "If I'm gonna keep you, you need to have a name!" The heap of mold gurgled in response. "I know! What about Kinrui? Is that good?"
"-gurgle-"
"I'll take that as a yes," Naruto chuckled. "So, Kinrui-chan, have you been living here for a long time? I mean, how can you stand that prick Sasuke?"
"-growl-" Naruto blinked.
"He's not a prick? Well, I gotta admit, he is kind of a hottie, huh?"
"-gurgle-!"
"Yeah, that's what I thought. Anyway, so that must mean that you're my rival?"
"-growl-" Naruto swung a spatula in defence.
"Hey, hey! We're not going to end up like Sakura-chan and Ino-chan are we? Their precious friendship got briefly destroyed by Sasuke! Well, they got over it now anyway, since they both gave up on him. But that's not gonna happen to us, right? We'll be best friends for ever, right?"
"-gurgle-!" Naruto grinned and gave the mold a thumbs up.
"Alright! You're so cute Kinrui-chan! I wish I could hug you, but I think that's a little early in our relationship, huh?"
"…"
"Yeah, it's better not to answer that," Naruto agreed, flipping a pancake up in the air. "So, what do you like best about Sasuke? Is it his constant brooding, or his arrogant attitude or that awful and sexy, sexy smirk of his?"
"-guuuuuuuuuuurgle-"
"Whoa! You like everything?"
"-gurgle-!"
"Yeah, same here, Kinrui-chan," he said, chuckling.
"Talking to yourself now, dobe?"
Kinrui-chan growled in annoyance for being ignored, but unfortunately for her, her beloved Sasuke didn't hear it.
----- End Side-Story-----
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Ninja For Hire
By SmexLemur
Chapter 5: Flying Thunder God
The next couple of days, Naruto spent his time cleaning Sasuke's house. He had already done the living room (seven hours, fifteen garbage bags and six buckets of clean water), Sasuke's bedroom (surprisingly, that one was rather well kept, so it took only one hour) and one out of three bathrooms. Why Sasuke had three bathrooms still was a mystery to Naruto, who had been cursing him throughout that day, much to the amusement of Sasuke.
The black-haired Jounin had very much enjoyed it all—who wouldn't enjoy a Naruto cleaning in a maid uniform? It was worth every penny he had paid for it.
"Honeeeeeey, I'm home!-- ♥" Naruto called out as he came back from grocery shopping. Sasuke did his best not to run down towards him in anticipation of seeing him again, but instead opted for stuffing his hands in his pockets and walking to the kitchen casually in mock curiosity. He pretended he wanted to know what Naruto had bought, though he really just wanted to see his dobe again.
He sighed. He had first figured it to be simple lust—the blonde was attractive, gorgeous and fuckable. With his blonde hair, tanned skin, slim figure… who wouldn't want that?
But now… Sasuke was beginning to doubt that it was merely lust. Over the last year he grew more and more jealous of everybody who would even speak to him. He had blamed it on the fact that he wanted to be the only one who was allowed to fuck him into a mattress, but he knew he wanted more than that. He was embarrassed to admit it, but he wanted to spend Christmas day with Naruto, he wanted to come home from a mission and find Naruto curled up on his bed and he wanted Naruto to say to him that he loved him and that he would stay with him.
...Sasuke felt disgusted about these thoughts—who knew that the Ice Prince could turn into a sappy romantic?
Yes, watching Naruto in such a uniform was… tempting. Yes, pounding the boy into the mattress and making him begging for more, making him screaming his name was alluring.
But was that the only thing he wanted from Naruto?
He looked down and sighed—great, his fantasies about pounding Naruto into a mattress took its toll. He quickly made a detour to the shower.
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"Sasukeeeeee?" Naruto said his name in a whiny sort of voice, sticking his bottom lip out in a pout.
Sasuke's eye twitched. He tried everything to withhold himself from jumping him.
"What?" he asked, swallowing as Naruto trotted over to the couch he was currently sitting on and flopping on it, laying his head on Sasuke's lap. Sasuke's eye gave another twitch. "What do you think you're doing, dobe?" he asked in an annoyed tone. Naruto grinned up at him.
"Taking a nap," he said, before shifting his head a little bit to get into a more comfortable position.
"Must you do that on my lap?" the black-haired boy asked, squirming a bit as Naruto's head accidentally rubbed against a very… sensitive spot. He wasn't exactly uncomfortable, but if the blonde continued to move like that, it was going to be extremely hard (-winkwink-) to keep control of himself. Naruto gave him another grin, before closing his eyes.
"You're comfy," he stated. "Besides, I'm only getting off of you if you promise to spar with me today. I need to catch up on some training, since the only thing I've been lifting for past couple of days are mops and the only thing I've had a fight with until now, is Kinrui-chan. I lost by the way," he added in an afterthought. Sasuke raised an eyebrow sceptically.
"How can you lose from a heap of mold?" he asked, before frowning. "Do I even want to know?" Naruto chuckled, sitting up straight.
"… You don't want to know," he agreed. "Anyway, wanna spar?" The black-haired boy gave him a teasing smirk.
"Only if you stay in that outfit."
He promptly got a pillow thrown against his head, with a loud 'Pervert!'.
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"Ready, dobe?"
"Bring it on, bastard!" Naruto declared, tying his headband around his head. The thing had always been practically a part of his body and he always protected it with his life—sparring, doing missions and just living his everyday life was… empty without it. Perhaps it was because it had been Iruka-sensei's, or perhaps he valued it so much because it had always been his dream to be a ninja—whatever it was, he valued the thing and it had become a habit for both Sasuke and Naruto to tie their headbands around their heads whenever they would spar together.
Sasuke stood in front of him on the training grounds, hands stuffed in his pocket lazily with an arrogant posture. Naruto immediately was reminded of the time when they had been twelve—they both hadn't changed much since that time. Well, Sasuke had changed more of course, with the whole Orochimaru-fiasco.
When Naruto had finally gotten the raven-haired boy back from the clutches of that ugly and creepy snake, Sasuke had been without emotions. He hadn't said anything for six months, not to Kakashi, not to Sakura and not to Naruto. Perhaps he had been angry with them for messing up his plans to kill Itachi by using Orochimaru's powers, but they didn't care either way. Tsunade had him forced under constant surveillance and about two times, Sasuke had attempted to escape once more.
Both times he had been stopped by Naruto.
After about six months, at least some part of the old Sasuke returned. He started to call the blonde 'dobe' again and even smirked one or two times. Sakura had visited him often, trying to get something out of him or cheering him up, but the bastard never acknowledged her and merely ignored her. Naruto had been afraid at first that he would attempt to kill her once, in an attempt to escape, but he was relieved when he saw that small flicker of a murderous glare disappear again, to make room for the emotionless mask.
After quite some time (two years to be precise), the old Sasuke came back fully, all thoughts of Orochimaru had disappeared (or had been locked away, who knows what goes on in the mind of an Uchiha).
Naruto glared at the arrogant boy in front of him, grabbing two kunai's from his pocket. Sasuke's smirk widened as he saw the two being thrown at him, activated his Sharingan and dodged them both with ease. He gazed back to where Naruto had once stood and tried to focus on the chakra—the blonde dobe was near him.
Again, a kunai was thrown at him by Naruto from somewhere in the bushes nearby. Sasuke smirked lightly. If you think this is going to defeat me, you're dead wrong. Sasuke's eyes widened however when he saw Naruto suddenly appear right next to the kunai, who had been only an inch away from him(1). Naruto landed a neat punch and kick on Sasuke, landing gracefully on the ground with a grin, while Sasuke barely was able to stand on his feet. Sasuke wiped off the blood on his face.
"I see, so you've finally mastered it, huh?" he said, smirking lightly.
"Yup," Naruto said cheerfully. "I wanted to show it off to you!"
Naruto had taken a liking into learning jutsu's from the Fourth Hokage. He already knew Rasengan and he knew how to summon, but Jiraiya had offered him to learn more from the Yondaime. Naruto had eagerly accepted this, of course. Jiraiya had started with the boring stuff first—like teaching him the seals the Fourth had used to seal Kyuubi, but the latest technique was 'Hiraishin no Justu', something that had taken Jiraiya years to learn himself.
Naruto had started learning it three months ago.
"And don't bother trying to copy it with your Sharingan, Sasuke," Naruto said, giving him a small smirk as well. "You can't copy this one." Sasuke gave him a scowl.
"Like I need such a technique to beat you, dobe," he shot back at him, before he lunged forward in an attempt to attack him.
After about fifteen minutes, Naruto jumped on top of a sweating and panting Sasuke in victory, holding both of his wrists above his head against the ground. He grinned down at the Uchiha, who scowled at him with all his might.
"Looks like I beat you, Sasuke-kun ♥," Naruto said, winking down at him. The black-haired boy underneath him squirmed slightly as Naruto straddled his hips to keep him down on the ground and he blushed fiercely at the feelings that ran through him immediately. He locked eyes with Naruto, who looked back at him with half-glazed eyes and swallowed. The blonde had a small blush of his own on his cheeks—he had apparently noticed the position they were in and was torn between temptation and embarrassment.
"N—Naruto?" Sasuke stuttered as the blonde's face started to inch closer. He seemed to be in some sort of trance before Sasuke spoke, but hearing the voice of the man underneath him was enough to snap him out of it and blink confusedly. Realisation dawned on him as he saw Sasuke's lips only an inch from his own and he quickly scrambled up on his feet, muttering something of an apology, before heading inside and locking himself up in the bathroom.
Sasuke raised an eyebrow and shrugged, his heart pounding a million times fast. Had Naruto wanted to kiss him?
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"Shit, shit, shit," Naruto muttered, pounding his head against the bathroom door. He heard Kyuubi let out a deep chuckle.
"You should've kissed him," he pointed out. The blonde snorted.
"Yeah right, did you see the shocked look on his face? He was probably thinking about what a moron I am," Naruto said, giving his head another good smack against the door. Kyuubi shrugged, not believing his host's denseness.
"Whatever kit. Just screw him already or I'll do it for you," he said, grinning a little when he showed Naruto images of… well, I'd best not describe that. "Or let him screw you, even better!"
"You know, I should've gone to Kinrui-chan for advice," Naruto said, scratching the back of his head. "At least she gives good advice." Kyuubi raised his eyebrows sceptically.
"She gurgles," he pointed out to him.
"It's called IMAGINATION, Kyuubi! Just like you imagine Sasuke having feelings for me—it's not real!"
"Whatever, kit."
(1) Yondaime's Hiraishin no Jutsu, also known as 'Flying Thunder God technique'. It's basically a form of the 'Body Flicker' technique, though much faster and it needs a seal or formula to determine the location to where the user wants to teleport. In this case, Naruto used the kunai, which he had marked as the location to teleport too, savvy? n.n
Also, I want your honest opinion: you think I'm over-using Kinrui-chan now? 'Cause I feel like I am T.T