Springtime in Konoha

by: sir brinkley of eastlake

ch 3

A.N. : well i finaly got to chapter three and this story could go two directions, either it ends for good in the chapter imediatly after this one, or it continues after the time skip, i need reviews on what you think, in fact i have enabled anonymouse coments just for that reason. so enjoy another unspellchecked chapter.

They were sitting in a booth at a very nice restaraunt, Lee and TenTen, for Lee had made plenty of money on his morning cart runnings even after paying for all the damages. They had talked about many things, the recent lack of missions, the warming weather, but mostly how much of a jerk Neji was. Niether of them realised how long they had spent there, the check came and after a short rant from Lee about the price, they left. they walked down by the river and sat at a bench, Niether Lee or TenTen were talking much now as the sun set on the horizen, TenTen felt happy, Lee had saved her from what would have been an entire day of sculking after being rejected by Neji. Lee had an intense look in his eyes as he looked off into the sunset, his concentration was broken by a kiss on the cheek from TenTen as she said to him "I had a realy nice time today Lee, I'll see you tomarrow."

"So long TenTen, i hope we get to do this again, allow me to escort you home."

"No its okay, i need some time to walk and think alone."

"O-okay, tomarrow then, right here at noon."

"Yes Lee, i'm looking forward to it."

TenTen began to blush as she walked away into the dusk, and Lee returned to his intense stare over the horizen.

Naruto and Hinata were sitting on top of the mountain with the Hokage faces carved onto it, all the way at the peak.

"Wow, Hinata, I never knew there was a path up here, i can see the whole town!" Naruto said with great exitement.

"I come up here sometimes to see y... the town from above, sometimes i see some chuunin talking at the emergency shelter, and i used to see you paint on the faces, but not for a while."

"Ya, i do a lot of crazy stuff," he looked at the setting sun, "I better get going, its getting late, I'll see you tomarrow Hinata... oh, let me see you home."

"Okay, but lets go by the old part of town first."

"That will take a while and you'll get home realy late, but i guess we can do that." he wanted to just leave her there, and he normally would have, but he came to the conclusion that he liked her.

As they passed by the old district Hinata stoped by a small shrine on the side of the road, it was old and cracked but it still had a few offerings on it.

"What is this Hinata?"

"Its a shrine of Bishamon-ten, the god of hapiness and war, i try not to think of war too much and i always pray for hapiness."

"Wow Hinata thats deep, I'll join you."

they gave a short prayer but naruto soon fell asleep and fell into the statue hitting his head.

"Ow ow ow, man i realy need to get home."

"I want to stay here a while longer, you go Naruto and I'll see you tomarrow."

"Okay Hinata, I hope you make it home safely."

"Don't worry, and besides i don't think Neji would be too happy to see us together."

Naruto was only a few hundred feet away when he heard a familiar scream and a flash of light from where Hinata was. He ran as fast as he could back to the shrine, which took only about three seconds, to see she was no longer there and the faint remanents of a smoke bomb blowing away in the wind.

"Hinata! Hinata!" Naruto called out, he looked for a trail and all he saw was a single trail of footsteps. he ran after them into the night.

As night fell on the village in hidden in the sand Temari sat on the top of a plataeu looking at the moonrise. Kankuro came and sat next to her, "You look tired after that last mission Temari, you should get inside before the night sets in, spring is still young you know and the night could still freeze you solid."

"I can take care of myself, and you are no exeption. And if this is your form of come on you already know my answer."

"Jeez Temari, your as cold as the desert night, (damn that Shikamaru)"

Kankuro walked off with his head down but he felt a tug on his arm.

"I can't let you walk home alone and freeze can I."

"Temari?..."

"Its not what it looks like, you remember survival class, never travel the desert without a partner."

They walked into the setting moon towards the village.

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short and sweet, hard to believe it took me 3 weeks to write it. please review and tell me what you think i should do, again i enabled anonymous reviews (though i don't know how much that will help). until the next chapter(s), peace out.