DISCLAIMER:I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE NARUTO CHARACTERS.

The song is "Hope" song by Twista feat. Faith Evans.

TEAM NINJA, TOTAL FIFTEEN

CH 9

HOPEFUL.

Naruto laid in bed as the sun rose from the horizon introducing a new day. Yesterday he received a call in which he didn't answer, claiming that the girls got first place while the boys got third place over all. He was excited for them when he heard the message. The message also said that they would be back tomorrow evening. He couldn't wait, but then again he kind of could. What if they saw him in the state that he was. He couldn't let them see him like this, but he just didn't have the strength to get up. His arms flopped down from over his head. His left arm slapped the radio on. He moaned, he didn't feel like listening to music but he didn't feel like turning it off either.

The songs that were being played were all R&B slow jams. The melody made him more depressed than what he already was, but once again he didn't feel like turning the thing off. There he laid on his stomach with his face buried in his pillow, and arms flopped out to the side of him. He was naked without even a pair of socks on.

Upon the radio a song came on. The beat was faster though it still had that tone of calmness in it. This song was different than the ones that played before it. Naruto lifted up his head so his chin rested upon the fluffed up pillow. The lyrics started and he began to listen.

I wish.

He wished too. That what Josh did to him never happened.

I wish.

He wished that he could share the feelings with another without being embarrass.

We will never break, don't devastate, we shall motivate,
And we gotta pray, all we got is faith.

'All I have is faith." He thought to himself. That's all he had. He spoke aloud. He lifted his chin from the pillow, now his head up. "All I have is faith." He slowed his voice down to a whisper and placed his chin back upon the pillow. His fingers intermixed underneath the pillow to fluff it up some more and to support his chin. "But I don't have any hope."

Cuz I'm hopeful, yes I am, hopeful for today,
Take this music and use it
Let it take you away,
And be hopeful (hopeful) and he'll make a way
I know it ain't easy but that's okay.
Let's be hopeful!

No, it isn't easy, not anymore. No, not anymore. It was never easy for him. But he still had dreams in which he wanted to accomplish. Naruto held himself up with his hands. He sat upon his bed with his legs underneath him. Yes, something bad happened and yes, he will always remember it, but it is his choice whether or not he wants it to take the best of him. He doesn't and it won't. The song continued to play and he continued to listen to the lyrics that gave him a slight smile on his face.

I wish.

There is no "I wish". He will be Hokage one day. He got out of bed and went to the restroom to wash himself up.

I wish.

There is no "I wish". He will be a powerful Hokage one day. He walked out the restroom strutting his shoulders. He went to the chair in the corner of his room. There laid his orange and blue outfit. He placed his head ban on and tied it with all his might. He saw his ninja saddles and quickly put them on. All of his ninja weapons that he use day to day in training he placed them upon his outfit some where. After he gets back from training he will cheer himself up with a hot steaming bowl of ramen. He stood before the back door of the cabin. His hand turned the doorknob and the outside world was seen. The sun now bright as ever beaming in. He adjusted the head ban upon his forehead.

"I will be a powerful and intelligent Hokage one day. Believe it!"

Cuz I'm hopeful, yes I am, hopeful for today,
Take this music and use it
Let it take you away,
And be hopeful (hopeful) and he'll make a way
I know it ain't easy but that's okay.
Let's be hopeful!

Just as Naruto dashed out the back door the song ended. But he was hopeful to the life ahead of him and the adventures. He ran into the woods out yonder behind the house screaming, "BELIEVE IT!"