Okay, an introduction to a new team! As I said before, I wanted to take the time to get you to know each of my characters instead of just throwing their names in your faces. In some of the other next generation fics I read, I happen to get very confused that way. Most of these idea's are my own, but if it bears any resemblance to anyone else's story, then I apologize.
Declaimer: I don't own Naruto.
Team Ebisu
"Ichiro, time to get up sweetie!"
Uzumaki Ichiro immediately jumped out of bed at the sound of his mother's voice.
"Coming mom! I'll be up in a minute!"
"Well hurry up, your eggs are getting cold!"
Uzumaki Ichiro gave a wild grin and ran towards his bathroom. He took a quick shower and came out with a towel around his waist. After brushing his teeth, he walked into his room to find that his mother had neatly lain his clothes out for him on his bed. A plain sky blue t-shirt and a pair of black shorts. Both freshly laundered and ironed. He pulled them, and his boots, on and reached for his forehead protector. Which was recently polished (by his mom no doubt) and was smelling as fresh as any of the clothes he was wearing.
He also noticed a large bouquet of flowers sitting on his desk. He smiled at them, Lilies and Daffodils. His favorites. Uzumaki Ino worked in a Flower shop when she wasn't on missions, Ichiro's mother still owned it, and occasionally the thirteen-year-old mind-nin would help. He loved working with is mother, she was fun and he adored everything she did, and listened to everything she said.
This devotion earned him the title "Mama's boy" with his teammates. And many other people too. Though Ichiro rarely let that bother him.
When he was done dressing, he grabbed his dark blue coat and ran upstairs to where his mother had his breakfast waiting.
"Good Morning!" He said happily as he threw himself down at the table. Ino smiled fondly at her son, "And Good morning to you! Did you sleep well?" Ichiro nodded, "Very well mom, you do my sheets everyday, so I always sleep well!" The older mind-nin laughed and walked over to him to give him a hug, "You're such a sweet boy," She gushed.
When Ino and Ichiro were together, you could really pick out the similarities. Ichiro wasn't considered handsome. He was considered "pretty" to his utter irritation. Ichiro had his mothers delicate face and eye shape and color. His hair was a pale shade of blond, just like his mothers, and he had a very slight build. Though his hair defied gravity and was stubbornly spiky, like his fathers, he also had his fathers smile, big and white.
Though what Ichiro knew about his father would spend more time with complete strangers then he did with his own son.
"Did dad spend all night in his office again?" He asked, his voice slightly dull. His mother sent him an anxious look, "Yes he did, but things have been busy for him, with the threat of war and all..." She trailed off when she saw that her son just stared at his eggs as though he had just lost his appetite. She leaned over and gave him another hug, "He loves you Ichiro, don't ever forget that," She said sternly. He looked up at her for a moment. Then smiled.
"Yes mom," He said with a reassuring laugh.
Ino gave a sigh of relief and decided to change the subject. "What are you doing today Ichiro?" She asked.
Ichiro winced.
"Um... uh... Ebisu-sensei is having us do chores all over Konoha, we'll be at it all day." He said quickly, before turning back to his eggs. His mother frowned, "Yes, I almost forgot about," She rapped her son over the head with a wooden spoon, "That was a disgraceful jutsu! I don't know where you learned it but-"
She went on for a few more minutes, then stopped when she saw the utterly dejected look on his face.
"Well, I shouldn't keep you any longer," She said, "Go on" He leapt up and was about to dart out the door when she stopped him, "Just so you know Ichiro, I'm going on a mission tomorrow, so you'll be here alone."
Ichiro was quiet for a moment, there was a shadow over his eyes, "I wouldn't be here alone if dad was around more often, and kept his promises" He ran out before Ino could stop him.
He ran down the hall on down several stairs out of the residents part of the tower and into the more public part. He stopped just outside his fathers door, debating with himself on whether or not he should enter. In the end, he decided to. It wasn't a crime for a son to want to say "Good Morning" to his father after all was it?
He pushed open the door without knocking and peeked in. His father, the Hokage, was leaning over an important looking and very long document on his desk.
"Dad?"
Naruto glanced up and Ichiro wasn't surprised to see that his father had dark rings under his eyes.
Wow, he's starting to look like the Kazekage what's-his-name Ichiro thought, looking at them closely. Did he even sleep last night? It wasn't likely, his father was very devoted to his work, and if something needed to be done, is father would. This devotion also cut into any quality time that the Hokage might have with his son.
"Yes, what is it Ichiro?" He asked, rubbing his face, "I'm very tired, and I still have work that needs to be finished by this afternoon, which hasn't been done yet, so can you make it quick?" Ichiro was stung by this, but he forced a smile and replied with as much a cheerful tone as he could, "I just wanted good morning," He said fiddling with his fingers slightly, something he only did when he was incredibly uncomfortable.
Naruto gave a very tired smile to his son, "And good morning to you to Ichiro," He said warmly, making Ichiro's smile less forced. "Listen Ichiro, I'm sorry for not taking you out for ramen last night like I promised, but I fell asleep, and I didn't wake up in time, how about tonight? I promise I'll make it this time," He gave his son a winning smile that almost made Ichiro believe him.
Ichiro's smile became forced again. That's what you said yesterday and the hundreds of times before that Ichiro thought bitterly. "It's ok dad, I can see you're busy" The bitterness he felt was heard faintly. Naruto frowned, "No, I'll be sure to take you Ichiro, I always try to keep my promises." Ichiro only nodded, suddenly not wanting to continue this conversation.
He didn't have to. The door burst open suddenly when the Hokage's assistant Udon entered swiftly.
"Lord Hokage, a messenger just came in from Suna and they are requesting that-" He stopped short when he realized that Ichiro was in the room as well, "Good morning Ichiro," Udon said, pushing his round glasses further up his nose, "Sorry, am I interrupting something?"
Naruto smiled at him, "I'm just talking to my son Udon, we're done now," He gave Ichiro a smile that he only half-heartedly returned. "See you later dad." He said turning around and darting out the door.
Uzumaki Naruto was the most powerful shinobi in Konoha, hence his title as Hokage. He was greatly respected and admired. Everyone loved him. So much that Ichiro was most known as "The Hokage's son" rather then his actual name. Ichiro had plans to one day be every bit as strong as his father. He wanted to make his own name. He wanted more strength. He wanted more power. And Ichiro had plans on how to get these things.
Ichiro was out of the Hokage's tower (his home) and running towards his teams meeting place, when he spotted a jumpsuit-wearing-figure- sitting underneath a willow tree. Upon closer inspection he realized that this jumpsuit-wearing-figure was actually one of Shou's sister's freaky friends. Aburame Shiko if he remembered correctly.
After a short conversation with him, he wheeled around and ran full out towards their meeting place.
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"Shou, it's eight o'clock already! Get up!"
The thirteen year old groaned and turned over in his bed and snored loudly.
"Shou! Get up!"
The black haired boy continued to snore.
"SHOU!!"
The door flew open with a bang and an angry pink haired women marched in, ducking as she avoided a well thrown shuriken.
"I'm up... you don't need to yell... sheesh," Uchiha Shou said with a wide yawn. After a stern lecture from his mother, she left and he managed to get out of bed.
He walked to his bathroom and ran a comb through his hair and brushed his teeth. Though he didn't see the point of doing it before breakfast. Walking down the stairs, he noted that Yumi's door was opened and her room was empty. Not surprising, she usually got up at seven, sometimes six, in the morning! It was hard to believe that they were related.
It was because of this he rarely ate breakfast with the Uchiha Spazz.
He ate his breakfast, got another nagging from his mother (why doesn't she ever nag Yumi? That is SO not fair) and left. Bumping into his dad on the way out. "Training?" He asked sternly, Shou rolled his eyes and nodded. Sasuke scowled, he hated it when Shou acted like what he was: A teenager. Well, he was just going to have to get used to it, he's going to be a teenager for another six or seven years.
With a bow to show his respect to his father, he turned and ran towards his destination. After all, the three of them had to be punished for pulling that Pudding Pudding Jutsu that Konohamaru taught them. It had some very amusing results.
The young sharingan warrior happily remembered the look on Ebisu-sensei's face when he saw three big-breasted women standing before him in revealing (indecent in Ebisu's sensei's words) clothes. The amount of blood that came out of the dude's nose was hilarious. Wonder what he'd do if he found out that each of them knew how to do the sexy jutsu? (with this, Nayane turned into a guy, for the entertainment of whatever girls might be present)
"Hey, whatsyourname" A voice called out behind him. Shou assumed that it was directed at him because he was the only one walking down this alley at the moment. He came to be face to face with a rather wild looking (yet pretty) girl with hazel, almost gold, eyes. Predator eyes. At her heels was a rather large white dog with black ears.
"I have a name you know," He said with an amused smile. She snorted, "Like I care, have you seen Obito anywhere? Or Rin? I can't find either of them." Shou shook his head, "How should I know wh-" She suddenly jumped forwards and poked him hard in the chest, "You either say yes or no or nothing at all," She asked bluntly, "I don't want to listen to anything that comes out of your mouth unless I have to." Shou raised an eyebrow, "Why did you want to talk to me in the first place? Unless you used this as an excuse to talk to me..." He unwisely said. Two seconds later, Shou was on his back, "Don't get above yourself idiot," she snarled. With that, she turned and stalked away with her dog.
Shou sighed and got to his feet. He felt that action was completely uncalled for. She could have just said "Back off" and he would have complied. But then again, Kita preferred the physical approach to the verbal one. Hokage indeed, that'll be the day.
He finally got the Ichiraku Ramen Bar, and found his best friend sitting at counter with a bowl full of ramen in front of him. But he wasn't eating any. Shou thought that this was odd. When he went to go sit next to him, he saw the depressed look on Ichiro's face, he knew at once that whatever was bothering his blond friend had something to do with the Hokage that was his father.
"What's up?" He asked, knowing the answer, but Ichiro needed to say it out loud to have any effect. The mind-nin sighed, "Dad promised me that he would take me out tonight," he said quietly, "But I don't think he will get around to it." Shou made his order, and while he waited, he made his reply; "I know your dad is being a bastard right now, but he means well doesn't he? My dad never offers to take me out anywhere, unless it has something to do with training. Then he's flexible."
His bowl arrived, (given to him by the pretty twelve year old Moriko, daughter of Ayame) and he was halfway through when their third teammate arrived. Hyuuga Nayane looked like she was in a good mood. Then again, Nayane was a morning person.
"Hey Shou," She said cheerfully, "How's Yumi the Uchiha spazz? Isn't her graduation test today?" Shou sighed, "Yeah, according to mom, she was late. Which for Yumi means that she woke up at seven thirty instead of seven or whatever." Shou always found Yumi's obsession with punctuality embarrassing. Then again, there wasn't much that Yumi did that didn't make Shou want to sink into the ground.
There was how she dressed (spandex with orange leg warmers? Have mercy!) her attitude (Obsession with youth can't be healthy) her continues poses (what the hell is up with the "Nice Guy" pose?!) her friends (Rock Liang the loser, and Aburame Shiko the freak) and most of all her sensei (The dude must be in his mid or late forties, why can't he act his age? And that Yumi worshipped the weirdo like he was some kind of god was a cause for concern. It wasn't healthy either.) Despite this, Shou didn't hate her. He was just embarrassed by her. He had his brotherly moments.
To think that two years ago, Yumi was almost normal. Then again two years ago, Yumi was laughed at for her feeble attempts at... everything. Their dad was almost disgusted with her. Even mom, as sympathetic as she was, was a little disappointed. Shou was the favorite child. Shou received the proud smiles from both his parents.
Nayane gave a soft laugh, "Well, there's no harm in punctuality. Speaking of which, where is our beloved sensei? He should be here by now, he's never-" She was cut off by the arrival of their Ebisu-sensei.
"Well, I'm glad to see you're here," He said in his usual uppity voice, "Now, as I said yesterday, today the three of you are going to do chores around Konoha as a punishment for that vulgar and disgraceful jutsu that you showed off yesterday," He treated them with a stern glare and adjusted his glasses, "The first thing your going to do is clean the faces of our dearly departed Hokage's-" He broke off when the three of them began to protest, "It's fitting, seeing as someone seemed to have spoiled the mountain with a whole warehouse supply of paint last night." He raised an eyebrow at them, while the mischievous trio tried their best to look innocent.
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"This sucks" Ichiro moaned as he tried to scrub an especially stubborn smug of paint off the Fifth Hokage's nose with a rag.
"Then we shouldn't have done it," Nayane said bluntly, using a large brush to clean the mustache she had put on the fifth's face.
"It was fun though." Shou said laughing, a right over her as he tried to scrub the red paint out of the Fifth Hokage's eyes.
All six faces on the mountain were nicely covered with spectacular designs that should be admired, seeing as they had put a lot of hard work into. After all, they gathered the paint, planned the designs, and snuck out, painted the whole mountain, and snuck back in. All without getting caught. It wasn't easy in Nayane's case. It is not a simple thing to sneak out of the Hyuuga compound. Good thing they have allies.
Ichiro had put special attention to the Sixth's face. It was probably his way of getting back at him for all that time they didn't spend together. The current Hokage now had a orange uni-brow, green pimples, purple eyes, red lipstick, and black teeth. Kinda made Shou wish that his father's face was on the mountain.
"SHOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!! WEEEEE PASSSEEEDDD!" A deafening scream erupted right in his ear. Shou let out a yelp as he accidentally knocked over his bucket full of dirty water. It fell, landing right on top of Nayane, who also yelped and accidentally cut two of the ropes on her platform. The end fell, and the sudden jerking snapped the other two ropes, causing the platform to fall. Luckily Nayane was a talented ninja with good reflexes and was able to leap off onto the mountain where she stuck.
The platform however fell a few dozen feet to the ground and smashed into a million pieces. One particularly large chunk of wood flew out when it made impact with the ground and whacked one Inuzuka Kiba in the back of the head, effectively knocking him out. The bucket that Nayane had been using also flew out upon impact and landed on a ramen worker carrying a stack of hot orders of ramen. The ramen worker let out a loud shout as he toppled forward, the five orders, stacked one on top of the other, flew out of his hands and landed on a very startled Inuzuka Hana who let out a shriek as she was covered in very hot noodles. She stumbled backwards and tripped over a cat and fell into a basket of tomatoes that happen to be there. Inuzuka Kita was howling in laughter at the sight of her Aunt with her butt stuck in a tomato basket. She received a large tomato in the face.
Kita scowled and grabbed a apple from a stand and chucked it at her Aunt, who managed to dived out of the way and caused the apple to hit a Inuzuka Tsume in the knees. Tsume immediately charged at a terrified Kita, chasing her and her dog Amaterasu yowling down the street. Who collided with the team of Genin who were assigned to capture the cat that Hana had tripped over. The Kuniouchi of the team staggered at the impact and slammed into a startled Hatake Rin, who was just wondering around minding her own business. The two of them together landed in a large mud puddle.
The two boys weren't so lucky and flew into the fence of a bull pen. Weakening it. It was unfortunate that one of the boys were wearing all red. The bulls let out a enraged roar and charged at the fence, breaking it. Screams could be heard as people, civiallians and ninja alike, dived out of the way of the angry bulls, all six were still chasing the genin.
And just when they were on the verge of impaling the crying boy, a wall of sand rose up. The bulls didn't slow down in time, one by one they slammed into the impenetrable wall with loud and sickening cracks. When the bulls were unconscious, the wall receded, hissing as it did so, and rushed back into the ground.
Two seventeen-year old girls stood a few feet away from the uncouncious bulls, a red head with pale eyes, and a pale skinned girl with golden eyes.
"Not an everyday occurrence is it Kusanada?"
"No, it was entertaining it its own way. Do you think that kid's alright?"
"I'm sure he'll live"
"Heh"
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"It's sure a good thing you got out of the way Nayane, or something really bad would have happened," Shou said, the other five genin nodded in agreement.
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Around six o'clock that morning, Hyuuga Nayane was already up and sparring with her father. She spent an hour with him, and an hour with her mother. At eight, after her cool down, she went to the dinning room to have a breakfast of fruit, vegetables, and green tea, with her father. Usually, they chatted about her training. Though right now they were having their ongoing argument about her choice of clothing.
"Oh really dad! They're just short shorts, they're not going to hurt anyone."
"They will if I see any young men checking out my daughter in them! And that T-shirt is far to small, I can see your belly button!"
"That's the point dad"
"It's impractical,"
"What if I decided on piercings?"
"Piercings?!"
"For my belly button..."
"I would not allow it!"
"Piercings wouldn't kill anyone."
"You're missing my point!"
"And what is your point?"
"My point is, your clothes are far to-"
"Oh Neji, your so old fashioned"
Hyuuga Neji looked up at his wife with an irritated look in his pale eyes. "What so old fashioned about wanting my daughter to cover up Tenten?" he asked with a frustrated sigh. Tenten smiled and sat down beside her daughter, "I think Nayane is just proud to be a women," She put an arm around her daughter, Nayane nodded, "And Nayane can handle herself if any boy tried to take advantage of her. She is a Hyuuga after all."
Neji tried to find a way around this logic, "Well, I'm still her father, and I say she should wear someth-"
"I'm late!" Nayane suddenly cried as she leapt up and ran towards the door, grabbing her quiver of arrows and her large long bow on her way. "Bye mom! Bye dad! See you later." And she was gone.
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By the end of the day, the sun was setting, the three of them trudged down the street. Wet, dirty, smelly (dang outhouses) and miserable. "Ugh, glad that's over with," Nayane moaned, thinking of the whole day of training that they lost. Ichiro nodded, "Helping bathe old wrinkly people? Why can't all old people be like Lord Jiraiya and Lady Tsunade? They don't need our help to bath them"
"Thank Kami," Was all an exhausted Shou could manage.
"So was it worth it to learn those perverted jutsu off of Konohamaru?" Nayane asked her friends.
Inner Nayane: Well duh! Just imagine the things I can do with that jutsu! Neither mom nor dad will be pleased by it, that's why it's perfect!
"After all, out parents will probably have a heart attack if they were to see it, and it isn't exactly proper," Shou gave a devilish grin, "Of course it isn't, that's why it's an awesome jutsu! Even though we got punished for it, the look on Ebisu-sensei's face, bloody nose and all, was priceless!"
Ichiro and Nayane roared with laughter as they too remembered the theatrical nose bleed their sensei sprouted. "And it'll give us an edge in battles won't it? Those poor souls won't know what hit them," Ichiro chortled.
"To bad we're never surrounded by beautiful women," Shou said enviously, causing Nayane to splutter in indignation. "Yeah," Ichiro unwisely said, "The pretty ones don't want to hang around us, we have to do a sexy jutsu in order to see-"
Nayane had stopped walking and was staring at the back of the two boys heads in disbelief.
Inner Nayane: They can't honestly be serious!
A plan of revenge suddenly sprouted in her mind, causing an evil grin to cross her pretty face. (Nayane actually resembled her father more then her mother) as she walked forward and dealt her two teammates with a blow to the back of their heads.
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They sprawled forwards and landed hard on their face. Two lumps forming on the back of their heads where their lone female member had struck.
"Oww" Shou whined, rubbing his sore spot with tears of pain forming on the corner of his eyes.
"What was that for?!" Ichiro cried, also with tears in his eyes.
Nayane ignored both comments and walked forwards through the space between them. Leaning over, she grabbed them both by the backs of their shirts and hoisted them to their feet.
"Come with me" She said with such a calm voice that both boys began to tremble in fear. They both started to make plans on how to escape. Last time Nayane was like this, they found themselves in the bottom of an outhouse.
"Run, and I'll come after you," She said without turning around. This quashed all plans of escape, and both boys nervously followed. After all, you can't run from someone who has the byakugan. And arrows.
Timidly, the two of them followed the Hyuuga until they came to the hotsprings. Nayane saw both boys exchange nervous glances with one another. Good, they haven't figured out her plans yet. Not surprising, seeing as she doubted that they even knew what started her off in the first place. Boneheads.
"Here we go, she said, stopping in front of one of the bathhouse doors. The two terrified boys gathered behind her, "But that's the women's side," Shou said in confusion. Nayane was silent for a moment while she checked inside with her bloodline limit, satisfied with what was inside, she answered his question.
"Exactly." Nayane turned towards them, and grabbed them by their fronts, then dragged them to the doors. "You said you wanted to be surrounded by beautiful women," Nayane said with her calm voice. It was then that both boys realized their mistake.
"Wait Nayane! We weren't counting you!"
"Yeah, we think your pretty!"
Inner Nayane: Too little to late
"Well, here you GO!" She kicked open the doors and threw both boys in, listening to their screams of shock as they plunged into hot water, accompanied by the startles shrieks of the fifteen women present.
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Two boys, who were sitting on a nearby roof, winced as they watched the entire scene through the telescopes they were both holding. Both boys bore signs of recent nosebleeds.
"Oh, that is just cold blooded," the seventeen year old snow haired boy remarked to his best friend.
The sixteen-year old silver haired boy, who had his mask down, nodded, "Poor souls, should we help them Nawaki?"
The white haired boy shook his head, "Nah, do I look suicidal to you Obito?"
"Good point, it's much more fun to watch anyway."
"By the way, what would your sister do if she found out what you're using her telescope for?"
"It's better for my mental health if I didn't think about that."
The white haired boy spent a moment examining his notes, "I think we have enough for today anyway." The silver haired boy nodded as he flipped through his sketch book full of busty women. "I agree"
"OBITO!!"
"Aw shit"
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"Gai-sensei! We passed the Graduation test!" Yumi and Liang shouted excitedly together. Shiko smiled, though remained quiet. Gai however, decided to more then make up for the bug-nin's silence.
"THAT'S IS MAGNIFICENT MY BUDDING NINJA!" He cried, tears streaming down his face, "I always thought that the flames of youth always shone strong within you three! It did not cross my mind for a minute that you would fail!" He leaned over and somehow managed to hug all three of them, tightly, at the same time, "We could not have done it without you Gai-sensei!" Yumi cried, tears also in her eyes.
"Yosh! You are the light that shone in our darkness Gai-sensei!" Liang cried, now hugging their sensei. Not to be outdone, Shiko joined, "Yes Gai-sensei, we are on our way to becoming splendid ninja! We have overcome our first major obstacle! We are in the springtime of our youth and posses the will of fire, we will not fail." He joined in the youthful hugging.
"And now you three," Gai said, wiping his eyes, "I have a very important announcement for you," The three of them immediately leapt back and stood at attention. He gave them a fond smile, "It was decided, that I will continue to be your youthful sensei!" The three of them let out cries of joy and jumped around and danced happily. Shiko wondered what his father would say if he saw this "outrageous" display of emotion. Then Shiko decided that he was far past caring.
"Now-" Gai tried to speak, but the three of them were to busy dancing around in joy to pay attention. "Now-" he started, and failed, again. One of Gai's massive eyebrow twitched.
WHAM! Shiko wheeled backwards as he felt a fist collide with his cheek
WHAM! Yumi fell sideways as she was hit in the forehead.
WHAM! Liang did a backwards summersault as he was hit in the chin.
"Listen up you three!" Gai growled. The stood at attention again, each with a part of the face that was slightly swollen, and saluted him. "Forgive us sensei, we are eager for you to impart your wisdom on to us!" The chanted together.
"Ok, now I want you three to meet me at our usual spot six in the morning tomorrow" he said, "Anyone who is late, even if it's by a minute, will get two hundred pushups, understood?"
"Yes Gai-sensei!"
"Training will be twice as hard as it was before, seeing as now you can go on missions, understood?"
"Yes Gai-sensei!"
"Good, now you should go home, I'm guessing that you have some youthful celebrating to do with your families?"
All three of them nodded.
"Good! I'll see you tomorrow! Run into the sunset my youthful students!" He cried, pointing dramtically at the sky, even though it was still midday.
"Yes Gai-sensei!"
The other two turned and darted off towards their home. Shiko however stayed behind. He sat down at the foot of the large willow and stared out at the pond, deep in thought. He failed to notice that his sensei hadn't actually left yet.
"What are you thinking about Shiko?" Gai asked, walking over and sitting next to him. Shiko jumped slightly and looked sheepishly up at the older ninja, "Forgive me Gai-sensei," He mumbled, "I thought you left already."
Gai chuckled, "I would have if I had not noticed that one of my students had not run off also," Shiko was silent for a moment, "Well... Gai-sensei" he said slowly, "For some reason, I cannot believe that I had got this far, when I think back to what I was. During that time, I had thought that I would never become a ninja. If it wasn't for you, Liang, and Yumi, I would have given up all hope in myself. Getting to this point was so hard, what is there to come? My challenges will be bigger, and now that we are going to go on missions, it will be harder to protect my team, especially if we're fighting other ninja. I did promise to protect them after all, and I will, with my life if that's what it takes." After this speech, he fell silent. Out of the four of them, you could call Shiko "the silent one"
"Very noble Shiko, very noble indeed. You are a fine team leader," He gave his trademark smile, "And the point of our team is to support each other, I'm sure Yumi and Liang feel the same way about you as you do about them. And as a ninja, you will be faced with much danger and many challenges, and I'll be there to help fight the dangers and to watch you overcome your obstacles." The young bug-nin looked up and saw a completely confident and sincere smile on his idol's face.
"Thank you Gai-sensei"
The two of them stood up, "I've got to go meet up with Shizune, I'll see you tomorrow," Gai said cheerfully before running off. Shiko watched as his sensei ran off at a speed with enough speed to kick up an enormous cloud of dust, before turning and walking towards his own compound.
I wonder if there is such thing as a ninja with a simple life? He thought for no reason whatsoever.
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Naruto sighed and ran a weary hand through his yellow spiked hair, before looking at the clock on his wall. Something at the back of his mind told him that he was forgetting something. What was it?
"Aw crap!" He yelped, it was ten o'clock, he was suppose to take Ichiro out for dinner, just father and son, at six. He got distracted by a very long and rather boring document that needed his immediate attention. When he first sat down at it, it was five thirty, he spent an hour reading it, completely forgetting about other arrangements he made that evening. This had been about their wavering alliance with Kumo after all.
This official work would be a lot less complicating if I didn't have to read each and every document and search for loopholes of any kind Naruto thought grumpily. When he got through the reading parts, he usually had a debate with Udon, and occasionally who ever happened to be there at the time. Whether it be Sasuke, Neji, Sakura, Tsunade ect...
Naruto often wished that Shikamaru still lived in Konoha, but he was a sand ninja now. He was in the Sand Council instead of the Leaf. Lucky bastards.
Standing up, Naruto quickly hurried out the door, leaving an almost finished document on his desk, he'll deal with it in the morning, and ran swiftly down the hallway. Forgetting, again, his dignity as a Hokage.
He swiftly opened the door to his residence. All the lights were off except the a lamp in the living room, where he found his wife curled comfortably on the couch reading one of her mystery novels. Ino looked up when he entered.
"Naruto!" She gasped, standing up and giving him a kiss, "I'm glad your home." Naruto kissed her back, "Where's Ichiro?" He asked. Naruto knew at once that something was up, Ino suddenly didn't want to meet his gaze. "He's in bed," She said hesitantly, "He's upset, Naruto, and angry. He was sitting here for hours, waiting for you to walk down that hall. He refused when I offered to go down myself and remind you. Just an hour ago he had enough and ran in his room." She met his eyes now, her expression sad, "I know you mean well Naruto, but you should spend more time with him."
Naruto was completely shocked by this, "I'm sorry Ino," He said sincerely, "But being Hokage means making some sacrifices-" He stopped realizing that he said it completely wrong. Complete confirmation came when Ino's eyes went from sad, to sheer rage.
"So our son, your son is one of those sacrifices!?" She cried, blazing up immediately. Naruto cringed. While her temper wasn't anywhere near the same as Sakura's, it was defiantly something to be feared, "I understand that being Hokage is important, but the Third was able to make time for his family, why can't you?" She was crying now, "I never see you anymore! Neither does Ichiro! I swear you know nothing about him!"
Naruto thought that this was a little unfair, "Of course I know stuff about him," he argued, "I know who his sensei is, his progression, I get daily reports-" Ino interrupted, "Only what you get as a Hokage! You don't-" Naruto's own anger was blazing at this point, when he spoke, his voice rose, "Thats not fair! I'm trying to prevent a war! It's selfish for Ichiro to think-" He was stopped as he was struck hard on the left cheek, "DON'T YOU DARE CALL HIM SELFISH!" She shrieked.
"I'M DOING THE BEST I CAN!" He had enough, "I'M SORRY I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO ARRANGE FLOWERS LIKE YOU DO! BUT I HAVE IMPORTANT WORK THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE!" Ino's eyes widened, "HOW DARE YOU! JUST- HOW DARE YOU!" She raised her hand and attempted to strike him again. Naruto however blocked it. "AND YOU KNOW WHAT-"
"Mom? Dad?"
Both froze, and turned around to see their son standing in the doorway, his face ninja-blank. Ino's anger began to withdraw, leaving her feeling ashamed about forgetting that Ichiro was still in the house, "We're just having a little... disagreement," She said, pulling her hand out of her husband's grip. The ninja-blank mask fell, and there were tears running down Ichiro's face.
Before either of them could do anything, he ran to the window and jumped out onto the roof.
"Ichiro!" Naruto called, running over to the window, watching the dark figure of his son disappear over the rooftops.
I hope I did better at doing Gai-dialog this time then I did last. It's not easy to do Gai speech. For me anyway. Anyway, I hope you people liked my characters, Ichiro, Nayane, and Shou, and I had fun doing Nayane's argument with Neji about her clothes. I've heard friends be lectured about the same things by their parents. I know I portrayed Naruto differently then others had, but being Hokage is a very busy job, and since he spent most of his life fighting to be in that position, I think that he'd be very devoted to it. He doesn't mean to neglect his son, I bet it happens every so often in real life, and he does always intend to keep his promises. But that's life, everything doesn't always work out the way we want it. The "Pudding Pudding no Jutsu" was something I picked up off of one of the Naruto fillers. As well as Udon, one of Konohamaru friends, who I thought would be a better assistant then the other two. And... hmmm... what else? I made mentions of some of my other characters in the story. And I'll be sure to explain them soon. I bet you know by now who the two perves on the roof top spawned from? lol
Oh, and I absolutely SUCK at heart to heart! I don't know why I even bothered -starts sobbing- Oh, and I'm sick of people always asuming that Gai is gay (not that I don't enjoy a good kakashi/gai yaoi every now and then...) so there will be Gai/Shizune in this fic.
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