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Oh I forgot to translate but he's pretending to be from the village hidden in smoke. And sorry this chapter took so long, but I had a huge case of writer's block for the Naruto-Hinata thing which plays a huge part of this chapter.
Chapter 7: A moment
Tsuande handed "Inshi" A chunnin vest and a folder, saying, "Here you go Inshi, you're officially a Jonnin of the Leaf now."
"Thank you…Hokage-sama."
"Your first assignment and a place where you can stay are in there, now be on your way."
Inshi walked out of the room, deeply saddened he had to keep lying to the person he had thought of as a mother, but now that he knew the truth, he didn't deserve to have someone that cared for him like she did.
He jumped out a window on a lower floor of the Hokage tower and headed towards the address in the folder. He hadn't been in the building his new apartment was going to be in, but he knew it was specifically for shinobi.
Either Tsuande didn't trust "Inshi" or he was reading too much into it and that's just where he had been given an apartment.
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It was a medium sized apartment, there was a couch a few feet (AN: why isn't everyone on the metric system it's so much simpler than what ever the hell the system I'm on I'm) away from the door there was a stove, some cupboards, and a refrigerator. To the right there was a door leading to the bath room and one to his new bedroom.
He threw a scroll and his jacket under his new bed and dropped onto his couch. He sat there a minute, and then took out the folder with his assignment on it. He read over it for a bit, and then dropped it on the ground. It was a B-Rank assassination mission; He was to travel to a village not one day away. Then he was to find a man by the name ofkodawari(trouble) and kill him, simple really.
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AN: this part isn't very good and kinda fluffy, so skip over it if you want your just missing a Naruto-Hinata thing
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Naruto Shunshined (sp?) and reappeared outside the apartment building. He walked around for a few minutes, enjoying not being looked at with hate, but pained that people would go back to doing it if they learned the truth. He passed the Ramen stand where he eaten so many times before, but soon went back out of nostalgia. He sat down and Ayame (sp?) came over.
"Hi there, what do you want?" she asked.
"One miso ramen please" He said. While he was eating, both Hinata and Ino walked over and sat down a few seats away.
Apparently Ino thought having Hinata eat ramen at the place her crush practically lived was a good way to make sure she was at least semi over his death. She cried and sniffed a lot, but she seemed to be doing pretty well. At least up until she had gotten her beef ramen which was Naruto's favorite kind. She burst into tears and Ino tried rather unsuccessfully to console her.
Ino noticed Naruto eating his ramen and asked him a simple question.
"Hey guy in the cloak, is your name Inshi?" she asked.
"Yes it is"
"You did a pretty good job cheering her up last time you talked, think you could do it again?" the blonde asked the taller boy
"Ok, what's she crying about?" He asked.
"Well…the boy she had a crush on… was killed."
"What?"
"Yeah she had a huge crush on one of the boys in the rookie nine." Naruto blinked "Yeah sad thing was, the idiot didn't even know" Ino continued
It couldn't have been me, but no one else in the rookie nine is dead. He thought
Naruto walked over to Hinata, not sure what he was doing, but he still put his hand on her shoulder
"Hey, are you ok?" he asked.
Is he an idiot? Ino thought. I just told him she wasn't.
Hinata sniffed "H-H-Hello I-I-Inshi-san." she said, trying to keep tears in. "I-I-I-I'm…" but she couldn't hold them in and she burst out crying.
Naruto used the Kokuangyō no Jutsu and encased himself and Hinata in a dome of darkness.
"Please stop crying," he said as he brushed his hand against her face "you're much prettier when you're happy."
Did he just call me pretty Hinata asked herself. "I-It's j-just that he made me feel good about myself, and confident."
Did I really do thatNaruto thought to himself. "You don't need someone or something to make you feel good about yourself, you just need whatever qualities made you fell good about yourself, why did he make you fell good about yourself?" he asked.
"He b-believed in me…"the girl sniffled.
"You just have to learn to believe in yourself, and then you'll realize that you didn't need him to make you feel good."
She sat there quietly for a few seconds, and then hugged him. "Thank you Inshi-san."
Naruto hugged her back
"No problem, Hinata-chan"
End chapter
Yeah…not very good I know but I need this chapter for plot purposes oh well R and R
I edited a minor error in this chapter so I would have an excuse to tell you…..My writers block is a lot worse than I thought. I'm not going to update for a while, but I will post a story or two I wrote before my writers block set in. ok so...yeah.