Hello my friends! *Rubs head sheepishly* Now I know you more than likely want to hunt me down and beat me with blunted objects, but I beg thee not to.
I have a somewhat reasonable excuse for such a long absence. First is that a friend of mine and I have begun to write a plotline for our own VN. It's only in the beginning stages and it's been a good minute since we have touched it but what we did write on it, is plentiful. To give you an idea about how large we plan this to be. We are 60 chapters in, they're a good size too, and were only in the starting stages of the first route.
Second is School. That hellish place where we "learn".
And then some medical issues have appeared. Nothing too serious but still effect me daily.
BUT I HOPE YOU'RE READY FOR CHAPTER 7!
Disclaimer: Naruto and Katawa Shoujo are owned by Masashi Kishimoto and Four Leaf Studios respectively.
Naruto sat on the roof of Yamaku eating his lunch waiting for Rin and Emi to awaken.
"You should've known that was gonna happen, even if it was only a tiny bit."
The blonde ninja let out a small sigh," I know, but since she didn't really pass out when I almost broke the sound barrier, you might think she'd be able to stand seeing a clone." He glanced at the scarlet headed girl," Rin I can understand on the other hand. She only had a few words to go off of."
Kurama let out a chuckle. "I have to say it was hilarious seeing another redhead get her mind blown by something she couldn't understand."
Naruto raised his eyebrow slightly. "Do I even want to know what you told mom or Mito, I myself wish to know."
The giant fox let out a sinister laugh," To make a long story short I told her a small portion of my life. Not like what I told you Naruto, but enough that she spouted stuff about females being the, and I quote,'Bad-assest fucking ninja of all time."
The sage laughed lightly. "That sounds like her. From that small talk I had with dad and her, it seems like I act more like her than him. Kami imagine the pranks we could've pulled!"
Kurama paled hearing the words. That demonic redhead and her son….pulling pranks together…. Even as a fox he loved pranks, but he could see them getting bored of the civilian and ninja masses and going after him….He doesn't know how but knowing those two they would most definitely find a way.
Kaguya glanced over at him and let loose a chuckle. It was quite funny when she saw the normally blood red fox turn as white as her hair.
A pair of groans caught the ninja's attention.
Emi slowly opened her eyes and looked around at the schools roof, catching the eyes of her armless friend she suddenly remembered what had happened. Jolting up she zoned right onto Naruto's location.
"Dude….what in the HELL?!"
Rin just sat there eyes still wide from the thought someone could clone themselves.
Finishing up his ramen, the sage smirked," I told you, Im a ninja. I can do that and more." He held his hand up and formed a rasengan. "This is such a thing. It's called the rasengan. My dad created this years ago and I finished it barely a few months ago."
Emi reached in like she was about to touch it, but stopped herself. Naruto nodded his head. "I would've stopped you before you did but be glad. This thing has enormous destructive power."
Emi's eyes lit up, why did this girl seem more and more like him? "Can you-Show you two? No, not here at least. It would more than likely tear the school down." Wow this girl really is him.
Naruto looked to the sky. "Look I can't tell you too much, but if you want to know more come to the boys dorm sometime. I'm in room 120, last one at the end of the hall on the top floor." (AN: Taking a stab at height. I can't remember if it says how tall the building is.) He sat up and stretched. "There's about 5 minutes left of lunch and you two haven't eaten. You might wanna eat a little bit at least." The sage finished off the sentence with a jesting smirk.
Rin looked at him with a blank stare that could match Samui while Emi let out an 'agh!' and began to shovel food into her mouth. Naruto chuckled a little and began his descent back into the school.
This time, when he came back to the classroom there was only Hanako. "Mutou must have stepped out," he mumbled. When the purplette heard the door open and saw the 'unknown' ninja, she, surprising even herself, didn't slump away, tighten her posture, or even look away from him. She tried to keep eye contact and smile. She lost the courage of keeping up eye contact but the smile remained on her face, even if it was a small one.
Naruto blinked but smiled slightly," Hopefully this won't be as hard as I thought." He walked up to his seat and sat down. "How are you, Hanako?"
Head still down but speaking a little clearer, she answered with a,' I'm doing w-well.' Naruto nodded with a smile. "That's good. Sorry I couldn't come by to eat with you and Lily today, I ran into someone this morning who wanted to ask me some questions and I couldn't just say no to them.' Well I could've but I don't wanna accidentally hurt someone until I can get Kaguya to teach me."
Hanako shook her head lightly," I-it's okay, y-you'll just have to pl-play a couple of songs for u-us next time." The ninja had to hold himself back from chuckling too loudly," I guess you're right. I don't mind as long as you two want to hear it."
The sound of footsteps caught both their ears and Naruto guessed she didn't want to be there when they came inside. He wanted to help her out of her shell, but forcing her to be somewhere she didn't want to be wasn't going to help any. "Hey, if you want to go, I'll take notes for you. Sound ok?" The scarred purplette nodded quickly and jolted from the room.
A few moments later people started to file in Hisao, Misha, and Shizune included. Naruto glanced at Misha, a plan slowly forming in his head. "Careful kit, think too hard and that pretty brain of yours will pop." Eyetwitch,' Fuck you too Kurama. *sigh* You may be partially right though. Trying to help Misha, Hanako and any others that need it will definitely put a toll on me. Not to mention the fact I need to train in the new techniques I gained from you and Kaguya being inside me…Don't. Say. A. Word." The snickers from the fox and light giggles let him know what they thought.
Toward the end of class Hanako came back, it was sad to him that only he, Mutou and Hisao noticed. She quietly sat down and started writing notes from when she came in. When class was over before she left Naruto slid her notes that he took earlier with a smile. "Hopefully I got everything important written down." A quick thank you and she was off again.
Naruto looked over quickly to see Hisao getting drug out by Misha and Shizune. "Well that blew my other idea out of the window. Hmm, I need to see the nurse again. Tell him what happened. Then you have to tell the hokage." Kaguya's melodious voice while normally encouraging and uplifting, brought his world to a crashing halt. Literally as well, he tripped when he remembered he had to tell Tsunade about Emi finding out.
The sage stood himself back up and sighed. "Fuck all kinds of duck."
Making his way to the nurse he was slightly surprised to see Emi about to walk in. Well while slightly not good it was at the same time. "YO, EMI!" Yelling out caught her attention and she turned and waved with her perma-smile. "I was actually about to talk with Nurse-jiisan about something and I think it's prudent you be there. Ah, but if you have some important business with him you can go first and I'll wait!"
Emi looked at him with an eyebrow raised," Nah, it's not too bad, actually we can talk about it while I meet with him, he just has to check my legs." Naruto nodded," If you're comfortable with me being there."
Opening the door with a smirk re-plastered on her face, Emi strutted in. Nurse looked up from his desk to see the two blondes walk in. Raising an eyebrow at Naruto's prescence he looked at Emi. "Don't worry Nurse, it's okay if he's here. Besides he said he has to speak with you about something and said it would be best if I was here as well."
Nurse looked over at the sage rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly. Letting out a deep sigh," She found out didn't she." A statement he didn't want to say but he knew it.
Naruto sighed and nodded. Nurse walked to his desk and pulled out a piece of paper, closing the door he slapped the paper over the door and the room took a light blue tint. Emi's eyes were wide at this. "What was that?!"
Naruto looked to her with a slightly serious face. "That was a silencing seal. Nothing we say can be heard outside this room and vice versa." While he talked Nurse began Emi's leg checkup. "She saw me this morning running. I may have been going a bit too fast." He has his back turned in a spare chair in the room but he could feel the eyes of the blue haired doctor staring into him. "Ok maybe I almost broke the sound barrier, but I swear I didn't know until I felt the air pressure begin to split!"
"It was so awesome! There were footprints from where he started! Some of the grass was uprooted too! Also he said that h-wait a second, you knew!" Her happy spouting turned to a playful betrayed look.
"I did. I know a lot more than you think, Em. There are things outside this world we aren't meant to understand. I only had a chance to see some of this stuff because of a bet."
"That's why you know Tsunade-baachan, Nurse-jiich-IM NOT THAT OLD!" Naruto and Emi's snickers met his outburst. "She told one other, but I don't mind. I told them that if they want some questions answered to come by my room sometime. I can't answer everything but I can answer some of their questions." Nurse was writing some stuff down about Emi's legs while they talked. "One of her questions was if I could train her." Aaaand the writing stopped. Nurse turned and looked at him.
"Who was the other person?" Emi tried to look at what the doctor wrote down while he was distracted, but to no avail. She sighed disheartened but answered him. "I only told Rin, so you know she won't tell anyone."
"Do you think she will be able to take the training for some of the speed I have? I do not doubt that she can do it. When she ran away this morning she was fast, actually if I had to put her somewhere on the ninja spectrum I'd say a veteran genin or a rookie chunin. I just don't want to agitate your legs more than what it seems you already are." Yea, he peeked and saw how red they were. Don't blame him; he just wanted to make sure his new friend was ok.
Nurse was about to say flat out no but a side glance at Emi told him to hold his tongue. Yea she was fast, fastest person he knew besides adults that did the same thing. Even then she could probably outrun a few. He could see she wanted to do this but the stress from her already rigorous running combined with ninja speed training might be too much.
As if reading his mind, Naruto spoke up," If you're worried about if her taking too much I can tone it down, that and if anything were to happen,' he got close behind the bluehead so Emi wouldn't hear (though it put a pout on her face),'I can always get Kurama to lend me some of his chakra so I can heal her."
Nurse sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose. He couldn't argue with that, he heard of what the kyuubi did with its chakra during the war. "Fine, but as soon as you see her start to even stumble you stop and help her you got it?" That face…oh god Naruto hasn't seen that face since he got on Yamato-sensei's bad side.
Even the legless blonde could feel the chill of death from that stare.
"Y-y-y-y-y-you got it!" Immediately the stare was replaced with a smile that still didn't seem right. "Im just gonna, uhm, just gonna go and find somewhere to train myself." Getting up, the scared sage left faster than hiraishin.
Nurse nodded with that smile still there. Turning back to Emi his smile dropped slightly and chuckled at the deadpan stare that he got from her.
"Kit I'm gonna ask that you tell me before you go see him next time, you tell me ahead of time so I can either sleep or prepare for the next time I see that face." Naruto had to nod, even though Kaguya was laughing at them. "What? It's funny to me how a piece of me and our Jinchuriki is afraid of a mortal man with no powers. Even so I can't do anything to him, not that I ever would. I'd like to think im his friend. Besides he was only trying to look out for
Emi. I have a feeling they're about as close as Kurama and I." Sounds of agreement met his ears.
He looked to the sky again to judge the time. "I gotta go to town and get a clock. It doesn't seem too late. Hmm maybe Lily and Hanako are at that room. Hope I can remember where it is." Checking around him to make sure there was no one nearby, Naruto popped one of the seals hidden on his arm and out came his self-made violin. "I did say I'd play for them some more."
The blonde pseudo-god made his way back inside the school to look for the room he met lily. While doing so Kaguya started a conversation. "Ne, Naruto-kun, when you spoke with Emi and that Rin girl on the roof you said you were 'technically royalty', what did you mean by that?"
"Well ive been thinking-still news to me kit-fuck you. As I was saying, I was thinking that with my mom being the last one from Uzushio alive, she was like a princess. Added onto the fact dad was hokage. Then pile on the fact you're a literal goddess and you were a princess before that, put it altogether and you get royalty. At least I think you should." Kaguya was silent for a moment.
"I suppose you're right, should you tell Tsunade about this?" Naruto reached the second floor, rubbing his chin he thought for a quick moment about leaving baa-chan out of the loop on something big. Then he immediately dropped that train when it ended with him on the receiving end of a super-powered punch. "I think it would be best to let her know."
Following the scent of tea along with the life signs he was getting, he came to the room where he first met the blind blonde. Naruto cracked the door open a bit farther than it was to see Hisao and Lily drinking tea. Hisao looked up a bit at the sound and nodded at him. "Hey, Naruto."
Lily's smile spread a little wider upon hearing who it was that came. "Ah, Naruto-san! It's good that you could come visit us." The aristocratic blonde tilted her head to the side. "Did you happen to see Hanako earlier? She escorted me somewhere during lunch but left to eat in the classroom."
"I did actually. A little before lunch was over she was there, I noticed she was getting very uncomfortable though so I told her if she wanted to go then I'll take notes for her. She came back near the end but she left right as the bell rang." A small pout met his answer, ok another notch in the cute counter. The blonde man blinked," I didn't say that." If he listened closely he could've swore he heard Kaguya grumble that he did.
"I have a feeling where she is then, but we will come to that later. Would you care for some tea?" Naruto lightly chuckled, "Oh you know I would.' He put the violin case lightly on the ground.' I brought the violin as well if you wish to hear something else." The ninja grabbed the seat next to the milk-eyed blonde.
"*sigh* As much as I would love to, I feel it would be rude of me to ask you to do such without Hanako present after I told her about it." Hisao just glanced at the two of them with an unsteady gaze. The blonde girl must have felt his confusion," When Naruto was with me yesterday he played what had to be one of the most beautiful compositions I've ever heard." The door opened a little more," Indeed it was." A somewhat familiar voice echoed to them.
Mrs. Atsuko was standing in the doorway smirking at the musician of the group. "Hope you've been working on your piano lessons Mr. Uzumaki. You won't win but it would still help when you play for all out events later."
Tension that was nonexistent moments ago came upon Lily. Guess they have a longer history than first thought, and kami-forbid, it would get loud if they let it.
Naruto sat up a little bit," Don't worry Mrs. Atsuko, I have been. I just hope you're ready to barely ever see me." The sage ended that with such a cheeky eye closed smile that the teachers own became a bit strained against her face.
"Yes well, just make sure you're ready for everything I have planned for you after you lose." And with that, the somewhat eccentric music teacher left.
Hisao just sat there staring at the door with his eyes blinking. What…what was that? He looked over to see his two blonde friends slightly tense, Lily more than Naruto. He saw Lily tense as soon as the teacher entered the room but Naruto only just tensed slightly. Was it because of that Mrs. Atsuko lady?
The sage closed his eyes and waited a moment, listening for the teachers footsteps to disappear. When he could no longer hear them he stood up and walked to the door," I'll be back in just a moment," and walked out. He closed his eyes again this time searching for life signs. Sensing none close by he made a clone and had it sunshin to his room to practice more. He'll be damned if anyone doubted him after all he has done. Sure people here might not know about his past, but he'll make them learn to not doubt him. He came back in and sat down.
So he hated being doubted that he'd ever do anything he said he would, sue him. It just reminded him of Kakashi blowing him off with Neji's fight, sure he met Jiraiya but he didn't know if it was planned or not. Not only that, but even after that when the pervert kept leaving him alone for some woman he met.
"You ok?" Naruto looked up and saw his blonde friend along with Hisao staring at him worriedly.
"You were out of it for a couple minutes Naruto-kun." Kaguya filled him in. Apparently he had been sitting there staring at the door after he got back. "I'm ok, just thinking of something stupid. I'll tell you later tonight."
"Yea, I'm good. Just a bad thought hit me." He stood back up," It's getting late and I still need to find the library since yesterday's search was cut short."
Lily let out a quiet 'ah'. "That's right. I need to go to the library to grab some books for class." Hisao raised his eyebrow a little. How exactly was she going to read them? "I'll be glad to show you both there if you'd like?"
The brunette let out a sigh," Thank you, I don't feel like getting lost."
The blind girl smiled," It's no problem at all. Let me just put everything away." Naruto caught her before she started moving everything," Don't worry I got it. It's only the coffee maker and tea right?"
Lily smiled at him. "Yes that is all."
Quickly putting them away Naruto joined his fellow students and left the room. Only the sound of light breathing and the tapping of Lily's cane filling their ears. That is except for Naruto. He was a little distracted. His mind split on the people who were new to his life, along with what Kaguya had said to him just before being sealed. He had all the time of the month before coming here to think on it but only now was it hitting him.
"Uhm, I mean, you could…just ignore that bit ok?" Kaguya's voice cut in, slightly stuttered and embarrassed. "I can't ignore it. Can we talk about it tonight? I'd rather not just leave it and come back to hurt one of us." The sound of a pop and a startled fox cut in," Huh, what who? What're we talking about? Just something Kaguya had said before being sealed." The fox raised its brows and looked at the rabbit goddess, seeing her face flushed and avoiding eye contact. "Wait what did rabbit lady say to you, Kit?"
"I'll fill you in later. We're at the library." And with that he cut the connection.
The blind blonde was led in by Naruto. Taking a few steps in, she called out lightly," Yuuko are you here?"
*THUD*
Hisao jumped a little from the sound. "Awww…" The three students looked over to see a young woman with reddish brown hair, blue-green eyes covered by glasses crawl out from behind the counter. The redhead, most likely the librarian, jumps to attention rigidly. "Hi, Lily. How can I help you?" She must've really hurt herself. Her voice sounded strained, that and she was rubbing her head gently.
"Good afternoon. What happened, I just heard a sound?"
Yuuko rubbed her head a bit more." Nothing, I just hit my head." She looked down slightly in embarrassment. "You see I dropped an eraser under my desk, when I went to get it a pencil dropped and when I went to get that you came in and surprised me."
Lily dropped her smile," Are you alright? I'm sorry, I couldn't know-," Yuuko quickly cut her off. "No, no. It's okay! Sorry for making you worry." The redhead smiled lightly. "All in all this is nothing. I've had worse happen to me." She shuffled her feet a little. "Yea worse things have happened, heheh."
Naruto and Hisao just stared at the eccentric librarian. Stealing a glance at each other they had the same thought on their mind. "People at this school are weird."
And that is a wrap for now. Its been a good while since I opened the doc to write in so ill fill you in a bit more on whats up with me. First is I got diagnosed depressive. Is that an excuse for my non-existent writing? A little. When I get in one of those moods it takes away all and I mean ALL of my motivation, happiness, and desire for something. School was affected by it, my friends, and definitely my family. I don't mean to make this sound like a pity party, but im just letting you know.
If I don't have chapters out in a while, like this one, don't worry! I have not, and will not, give up on this story. At least I need to finish the route I have set. That being said I also have ideas for other stories I wish to pursue. So be ready to see some ideas in my bio, or a story plot bunny pop up on my list.
I think that's all I want to say for now except thank you all for sticking by me. Tell me what you think and I love you and I hope you have a good day.