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For Those I'll Live For
Smile and Wave
Iruka isn't very happy with his student's, Naruto's, choice of words after finding out why he was as hyper as a monkey on crack from an energy drink. The drink was quickly banned from school grounds. Guy, of course, led a strong defense for the product, but was eventually forced to a loss as Naruto's example of what it could cause overpowered his so-called 'benefits.'
Naruto is happy to not have that dreaded drink in his life anymore. He can't handle all of the energy that tries to get out of him at once, but Naruto was happy that he had set a new school record, even though he narrowly escaped getting an asterisk next to his name.
But none of that matters because he had also made a new friend that day. The shy girl in his class, Hinata Hyuga, has the coolest lavender eyes to Naruto. Hinata returns the thought about Naruto's eyes, telling him that they are as deep as the sea. The pair spends their lunch together every day since they met. When Hinata is picked on for being too timid, Naruto defends her and starts a fight with the other kid, demolishing him.
Naruto is suspended for a week because of the drink incident, but only serves an hour of it by stating, "You're training us to fight, then expect us not to? Dude, I'm six and I know that's not right." Hinata is pleasantly surprised when Naruto walks back into class after being gone for only an hour.
Kiba, who has become one of Naruto's closest friends, begs him to tell him how he did it so that he wouldn't get in trouble for fighting too. "Kiba, you're being trained to fight and kill, but they expect us to be nonviolent?"
Kiba almost dies, laughing at the simplicity of the answer. "Leave it to you, Naruto, to find out something so stupidly simple!"
"Kiba, I'm above you in grades. I'm only behind Shino, Sasuke, and Hinata. You're nearly at the bottom." Kiba growls at his friend for mocking him, but before he is able to retort, Iruka walks in and immediately begins telling the class to go outside and start running laps.
"Why do we always have to run laps," Kiba complains.
"Because you can't be a good ninja if you get tired from a little jog," Naruto yells from the front of the pack of running kids.
"You're a stamina freak though! It's not fair," Kiba groans as his face starts to turn red from exerting himself and his breathing becomes heavier and puffier.
Naruto always dominates the physical part of each day until he gets bored, which when he does, he falls back to talk to Hinata. "Hey there, Hinata. What's up," Naruto says calmly.
"H..hey…N…Naruto," Hinata manages to get out between gasps for air.
Naruto laughs at her slow response. "Tired, Hinata?" The girl can only glare at the blonde boy who is now running backwards, just to show off to her.
"NARUTO, PAY ATTENTION AND STOP SHOWING OFF FOR YOUR LITTLE GIRLFRIEND," Iruka yells from the other side of the field. Naruto trips at the statement and tumbles backwards, only to roll with it and jump up, somehow twisting himself in the air to face the direction of his classmate's destination. "Ha! Even when I fall, I still win!"
Hinata starts giggling quietly at the blonde's antics, almost tripping over her own feet because of it. "Naruto, don't make me laugh, or I will fall!"
Naruto starts doing fancy moves, spinning around in cartwheels next to her, still keeping pace with her. "Really now?" It is all he can get out before he slams into the fence behind him. He is up against the fence, upside down. "Should have seen that coming…"
Iruka calls the class over to the sparring grounds. Today is the day that they are learning different forms of the academy basic, taijutsu. It is pretty much useless in a real fight, but it is better than nothing and it isn't too demanding. Hinata is the female leader in taijutsu, while for the boys, it is a toss-up between Naruto, Sasuke, and Kiba.
5 years pass, and the final year of the academy is finally here for Naruto and his friends.
In the five years, Naruto has grown quite close to Hinata. He likes her so much, that he even asked her on a date right before the academy started up for their last year. The day after their date, the two had shown up holding hands, so everyone had assumed that it had went well.
Whenever someone would bring it up, the two would blush and look off into space, so nobody knew the exact status of the relationship but the two. It didn't matter in the eyes of the Sasuke fan girls, though. They were just glad to know that the clan heiress isn't interested in their mark.
Kiba is the one to constantly pester the two about whether or not they have kissed already. Sakura thought that Naruto and Hinata make a cute couple, her being one of the co-founders of Sasuke's fan club. Kiba, being generous, gives up his seat to Hinata so that she can sit next to her new boyfriend.
After about three weeks into their second year of school, Kiba had made it his daily routine to go to Naruto's house, usually for a hideout after the pair pulled a prank on somebody, or just to get extra practice in with his kunai and taijutsu by sparring with the blonde before the boy started his training with his silver-haired father.
"Give," Kiba whines in defeat after being bested by his friend yet again. "You win. AGAIN. Say, how are you and Hinata?"
Naruto smiles widely at his dog-like friend. "Pretty good, actually. Though I don't think her family likes me very much, but maybe that's only because I keep beating Neji in spars."
Kiba tilts his head slightly. "You know, it's probably because you can't seem to stay on the ground for more than a second. Seriously! You use me to vault yourself every time we spar!"
Naruto laughs at his friend's complaint. "Well, yeah. That's how I fight, and it works really well, in case you haven't noticed."
"Does your fighting style even have a name or do you just kind of make it up as you go?" Kiba inquires.
"Nah… It's more of the concept of joining two fighting styles and I make the moves up from that," Naruto replies proudly. "It's my Otou-san's fighting style concept mixed with the concept of the Fourth's style."
Kiba whistles slowly as he takes in that information. "Dang… You're going to have one heck of a fighting style once you get it all done!"
Naruto grins, showing his shining teeth. "That's what my Otou-san says."
Kiba sits on the grass and returns to the subject he originally asked about. "So… Have you two kissed yet?"
Naruto's face faults at his friend's constant questioning about what him and Hinata do and have yet to do. "Well, if you MUST know, we have made out a bunch of times," Naruto says with a fox-like grin.
Kiba's jaw almost left a dent in the ground as it hit. "Really? How was it? How many times? Where?" Kiba throws out his slew of questions as fast has his mouth can form the words.
"Calm down, Kiba," Naruto says. "And it was amazing! Gah! It's the best thing in life. I feel like we are meant to be together, you know? And Otou-san said that we ninja should live life as much as we can because if could end at anytime," Naruto tells his friend enthusiastically before his face started to turn red from blushing. "Though there was one time I swear Haishi-sama was going to kill me…"
Kiba went wide-eyed at the news that the blonde had fed him. "WHAT? You gotta tell me, man!"
Naruto looks at the ground and then falls, laughing. "Yeah, you're going to love this one. I'm still proud of myself from it, even if I have NO clue what went through my mind to think it was a good idea."
Kiba leans forward, aching to hear what his friend has to say. "TELL!"
Naruto sits down across from his friend, not even noticing that his father is now standing in the doorway a few yards away. "Well, we were at her house, which is huge by the way, and Haishi-sama told us to stay in the garden, which is right outside of her room. Well, we kissed, and that led to making out, so she told me to follow her to her room. Needless to say, I gladly followed. When we got in there, we sat on her bed and started to make out. But only about four minutes later, Haishi-sama slammed her door open looking absolutely PISSED. Like Akamichi getting his food stolen, pissed."
Naruto continues, "Well, I don't know what the HELL went through my mind to think it was a gread idea to look the man directly in the eyes, and just give him a big smile and wave to him." Kiba is now laughing so hard that he almost forgets to breathe, causing him to cough and gasp for air. Kakashi is literally rolling on the ground, laughing hard about what his son had done.
"Naruto! I can't believe you did that," Kiba yells, unbelieving of the story.
Kakashi is still on the ground, going through the process of taking deep breaths, then bursting out in laughter, spouting words like "YOU! HIASHI! HINATA! SMILE!" and repeating the whole process over and over again.
"The funny part was I know I caught him way off guard because he waved back, looking confused as all heck," Naruto adds, laughing at himself.
After the boys got over the humor of the story, Kiba takes off to his own home so he could start his clan training and even his own partner to train with, while Naruto still has to try and get his father to stop laughing before he passes out from lack of air. After twenty minutes, he finally stops laughing.
"Now, you really know how to cause a scene, don't you Naruto?" Kakashi takes a swipe at his son to begin his training for the evening.
"Well, like you said, Otou-san! Live it up while I can!" Naruto jumps over his father's low kick.
"Yeah, but I didn't think you would go and do that! I told you to live it up, not go and get yourself killed. Though I have to say that it's definitely the first time I have ever heard of that happening."
Naruto grabs his silver-haired attacker by his left wrist and pulls it towards himself as he did a front flip to kick the eye-smile off of his dad. His hit landing, Naruto bounces off of Kakashi's face, twisting to the side, snapping his father's wrist and ripping tendons at his elbow. The man Naruto was fighting explodes into water and falls, leaving a puddle behind him.
"Nice, Naruto. You're improving very fast. You were able to beat my Mizu clone," Kakashi says as he holds a kunai to his son's throat from behind.
"Yeah, but I still have a long way to go. I have a trick I wanna show you, Otou-san." Naruto breaks free from his father's grasp and forms several seals father than Kakashi can make out with his normal eye. "Zanzou no Jutsu!" Naruto yells. Moving slowly towards his father, Naruto looks a little blurry and distorted to the man.
Moving into a full sprint, Naruto looks like he is moving at speeds where his body appears to be in multiple places at once, leaving exactly what his son's technique was called. An Afterimage. Kakashi finds it hard to dodge his son's attacks, because while some hits looked like they hit, the actual force of the hit shows up after the fist hits him, instead of when it hit him.
Other times, the pain wouldn't come at all, thowing Kakashi off a little. His son is attacking with what seems to be a ghost's body. Calling it quits, Kakashi has to ask what the blonde had created and how. "Naruto, what is that technique?"
Naruto falls on the grass, slightly exhausted. "Well, since I couldn't use the standard Bunshin unless in massive amounts, I decided that I should make it more useful. By making the clones cover my body like a hinge, but all moving at slightly different times, I can make it look like I'm going really, really fast!"
Kakashi marvels at his boy's creative jutsu. "Well, that's a great move, Naruto. I was honestly baffled at how you were making an afterimage fight back correctly." Naruto, leans backwards, gives a thumbs up, and drifts off to sleep.
The next day, Naruto and Hinata run to school in a hurry. Today is the day that they get to sp
ar with the other students and anything they know that won't kill a person is allowed to be used in the battle. Naruto is excited to be able to show off his Zanzou no Jutsu, to both Hinata and his classmates. Hinata wants to see the technique Naruto had been working on for some time now, but she also wants to show that she is still the top of the female fighters in her class. Her father would accept nothing less.
Kiba is waiting for the young couple at the gates to the schoolyard of the academy. "Took you two long enough," Kiba yells, seeing the two about half a block away from the school.
"Yeah, I know Kiba," Naruto replies. "I hope I'll fight you today! I'll show you why you're at the bottom of the class list." Naruto punches Kiba's arm.
"Bring it, blonde boy," Kiba shouts and pushes back. The two boys start laughing as Hinata glares at the two boys. "Can you two not get into who's the 'Alpha' argument again?" Both of the boys point at themselves.
"Saskue and Shino! To the sparring mat!" Both boys jump to each side of the mat, taking stances. "Now, remember! Today, you can use any nonlethal jutsu you know and any taijutsu that you are willing to use. Begin!"
Both boys are standing still, waiting for the other to make the first move. Sasuke, getting impatient, pulls out several blunted shuriken and tosses them at Shino, followed by rushing at the grey-coated boy. Shino doesn't even move as his kikai bugs swarm out of his sleeves and collar to stop the projectiles headed for their host.
Sasuke, jumping through the cloud of bugs to reach his target, finds out that the boy wasn't there anymore. He sees him again on the other side of the bug cloud. He rushes again through the bugs as fast as he can to get to Shino, only for him to fall to the ground, exhausted. "Why am I so tired already?"
"Because you jumped through my bugs. They pushed you to the side, attached themselves to you, and started draining your chakra. The second time you did it, more attached and drained you until you could no longer move. Having so little chakra, it took mere seconds," Shino informs his tired and helpless opponent.
"Good job, Shino. You didn't even have to move to win," Iruka congratulated the boy. "Well, now its Naruto and Kiba's turn." Before he can even tell the two to get into the fighting area, they were already in their fighting stances. Naruto in his unique style and Kiba in his clan's style. "Begin!"
The two dash towards each other. Kiba is making what seemed like wild clawing motions but leaves little to no room for Naruto to counter. The blonde side-steps and twists to dodge his friend's relentless assault, jumping back to avoid a vertical clawing motion. "Oh? So we're actually going to try?" Naruto taunts his dog-like opponent.
Kiba goes through hand signs at a moderate speed. "Shikyaku no Jutsu," he yells. The boy falls down on all fours, gaining animal-like claws and enlarged canine teeth.
Naruto smiles foxily at his friend and flies through his own hand seals, shouting, "Zanzou no Jutsu," and dashing off to Kiba.
'What? How can he be moving that fast?' It is all Kiba can think before getting kicked in the face and being launched into the air. Kiba starts twisting his body, pumping chakra out of it in one direction and turning himself into a mini tornado. "Tsuga!" A tornado-like drill aims itself towards Naruto's burry body, Naruto jumping out of the way as his friend hits the ground. The tornado disappears, revealing a dizzy-looking Kiba. "Whoa, I'm not used to that just yet," he says, his head wobbling like he's a drunkard.
Naruto runs at his dizzy comrade. Kiba sees this coming and takes a blind swipe at the approaching blur of a boy. Jumping over the brown-haired boy, using his shoulder as his pivot point, Naruto slips out a kunai and as soon as his feet hit the grass, he has a kunai on Kiba's neck. "I win. With the same exact move, Kiba."
Kiba whines in defeat as he walks off of the mat and sits down, a sad look upon his face. "You always win!" Iruka coughs to get his class's attention, getting through all of the other student's battles, though they all paled in comparison to either of the first two matches.
After school, Kiba is looking for Naruto, finding him kissing with Hinata and then parting with the blue-black-haired girl.
"Hey, Naruto! I saw that," Kiba yells, running to the blushing blonde's side.
"So what! I beat you twice in under twenty-four hours. You really want to make it a third?"
Kiba laughs and tells the blonde that he is going straight home today because today is the day he gets his dog partner. "Finally," the brunette says as he leaves Naruto to walk home alone. Naruto's special kunai falls from its broken chain. "Why do these things keep breaking? Oh well. I should go get a new one."
Naruto stops in a store to get a chain, spotting a book for beginners on sealing. "Should get that too…" Getting his book and chain, Naruto heads home.
"Seals for Starters: Lesson One – Each Symbol has a Different Purpose or Use." Naruto reads the whoel book in one night, but only understands the easier parts. Over the next month, Naruto reads over the book any change he has, but only is able to manage small storage seals, scrolls being the biggest object he can seal.
Kakashi gives him a few pointers and buys him more books on sealing, but Naruto is determined to do everything that his first book said he could do with it. After the second month, Naruto is able to seals objects as big as desks and dressers.
Naruto uses his sealing skills to pull various pranks on the neighborhood and even for romantic things for his girlfriend, Hinata.
Hinata wakes up bright and early for school and is about to leave to grab a small snack before heading to the academy when she notices a paper plane fly into her room. She opens it and it pops into a cloud of smoke revealing a dozen pink and white roses in her hands with a card that read:
To Hinata, the best girl in the entire world!
-From Naruto
The card has a small, sloppy drawing of him handing over flowers to a small, sloppy drawing of her.
Hinata runs out of her house, forgetting about her hunger and the food she wanted to grab to give her cute boyfriend a hug and kiss. "Thank you, Naruto! It was cute!"
Naruto pulls out his sealing book and kisses it, calling it the tome of life's greatest secrets. 'The author was right! It worked like a charm!' The couple walk to school, hand in hand, after Hinata puts the roses back in her room.
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