Chapter 2: Naruto's Gift

"They can't be…." Naruto suddenly was stunned,

"Arashi wanted you to give to you as a gift and a welcome to the family," Jiraiya continued as each word made Naruto silent.

"Arashi?" the little blonde responded,

"Yondaime's real name was Arashi….Uzumaki Arashi," As these words were let out of Jiraiya's mouth, everyone were in disbelief as they couldn't here more of the shocking truth.

"So that means the woman in this picture is…" Sakura said in astonishment. Naruto couldn't take any of it anymore and ran out of the office. He couldn't bear to listen to Jiraiya anymore.

Naruto, Sasuke thought in astonishment, is the son of the fourth hokage?

"Naruto!" Sakura yelled,

"Don't," Kakashi stopped her before she runs to follow her teammate, "It's best if he gets time alone right now."

Naruto ran down the corridors reaching outside the doors as he saw his rookie friends waving at him.

"Hey Naruto, what's u-" Naruto ignored Kiba and ran ahead. Kiba saw Naruto's face with tears running down his cheeks. As thre blonde dashed through the streets not knowing where he was going, he bumped into Shikamaru and the locket fell to the floor without Naruto realising it.

"What wrong with him?" Ino wondered,

"Look at what he dropped," Shikamaru picked up the locket and opened it. The peaceful tune once played again and everyone listened carefully. They looked at the pictures and realised one of them looked a lot like Naruto.

"That guy in the picture, why does he look so familiar?" Ino wandered. Team eight and ten stood there as they heard footsteps coming there way.

"HEY! What are you doing with that locket, how did you get it?" Sakura rushed over.

"Naruto dropped it as he ignored us and ran," Ino replied,

"By the way, what was wrong with Naruto? I saw him in tears when he was passing by," Kiba asked,

"We need to find him and give the locket back to him," Kakashi suggested as he was reading his perverted book Icha Icha Paradise.

"Why is the locket so important to him?" Asked Chouji munching down his chips.

"Just trust me Okay?" Said Sakura. Everyone nodded and the search began for their blonde rookie.

It's been two hours and no luck. Everyone was tired and did not know where else to look.

"You know, there is an obvious place we haven't looked for," Sasuke suggested, "Where do you think Naruto would head for every time he's hungry?" everyone looked at each other and realised how stupid to not look in the most obvious place Naruto loves to hang about in.

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" Here you go, A nice bowl of ramen with extra barbeque pork," Said the owner of the Ichiraku restaurant as he was handing out the ramen.

Naruto didn't realised the food was ready, he was thinking about what he had just heard.

"Naruto?"

"Huh?" Naruto blinked, "Oh right arigato!"

"What's the matter with you?" Asked the owner,

"Nothing," Naruto gave a faded smile. He picked up his chop sticks and started chewing down his noodles.

"There you are!" Everyone suddenly entered the room, Naruto's teammates, team eight and team ten.

"What are you guys doing here?" Naruto wondered,

"You dropped something," Ino took the locket from Shikamaru.

Naruto widened his eyes and grabbed the locket; he stood up and got out his frog wallet. "Thanks for the meal, old man. Here's the money I owe you." Naruto started walking out of the restaurant.

"Naruto now where are you goi-" Sakura looked at the bowl of ramen given to Naruto, she realised it was not like him to leave half of his meal uneaten.

"Great no answer, he didn't even explain what was going on," Ino moaned,

Shikamaru sighed "This is so troublesome,"

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Ino went back to her flower shop, she saw her mum giving a costumer roses.

"I'm back, Mum," She said,

"You've been gone for quite some time. Where have you been?" Her mum replied,

"We were just looking for Naruto, He keeps bailing on us lately and I don't know why."

"You mean the kid with the orange suit? He stopped by around just ten minutes ago,"

"What? Do you know where he's heading?"

"Err…Don't think so, sorry," Ino's mum looked through her flower shop door and stared as she saw a boy in a orange suit pass by, "Isn't that the kid?" she pointed outside her shop and Ino paid attention to the same boy with the bright, orange clothes, flowers on one hand and a locket on the other.

"That's him! I've got to go inform the others," Ino rushed out the doors. She then bumped into Shikamaru.

"Shikamaru, I saw Naruto heading in that direction, c'mon we need to tell Sakura and the others quickly,"

"But-" Shikamaru sighed, "This is such a drag!"

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