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Naruto walked through the streets in a daze, for once not even noticing the people glaring at her on the way to meet her team. She temporarily snapped out of her daze when she hit her head on the door of the restaurant, after trying to pull open a push door. Ignoring the few chuckles she received for that blunder, she found the booth her team was sitting at and plopped down in the chair.
"what took so long dobe, we already ordered for you" Sasuke asked uncaringly as he ate his salad.
"I'm getting married…" Naruto mumbled as she stared at the empty seat across from her. Kakashi spat out his mouthful of miso soup at the news.
"What! What do you mean you're getting married!" he yelled causing everyone in the restaurant to look at their table.
"what I would like to know is how you're eating soup with your mask still on…" Sasuke muttered as he wiped kakashi's spit take off his face with a napkin.
"Are you pregnant!? Cause if you are so help me I'll kill the bastard who did it!" Kakashi said as he stood up.
"what! You're pregnant!" Sakura yelled just now returning from the bathroom.
"huh!?what! No! I'm not! I didn't say I was pregnant you morons where did you get that idea!" Naruto shouted while forcing Kakashi to sit back down.
"well you said you were getting married and I don't see any other reason if you're this young…" kakashi mumbled, having enough decency to look sheepish.
"um I'm sorry but if you don't keep it down I'm going to have to ask you to leave because you're disturbing the other costumers…" said a waitress trying to put an end to their shouting match.
"I'm sorry miss I haven't trained them properly, if they get out of hand again I'll take them outside" Sasuke apologized for them, being the only one at the table not making a huge ruckus.
Sasuke turned his to his team which by now was relatively calm again then looked back to the audience their commotion attracted "there's nothing to see here" he said with his trademark glare causing the onlookers to go back to their meals. With a sigh he turned his attention back to his team "so what's this about you getting married?"
Fixing her dishevelled jacket Naruto spoke "well when I was four the sandaime told me I was in an arranged marriage but I totally forgot since that was years ago and he distracted me with ramen right after telling me, so it came as a shock when he called me to his office to meet my future husband"
Sakura perked up from hearing the words marriage and future husband "oh my gosh I can't believe you're getting married! Is he hot?!" sakura practically squealed at the thought of herself marrying a hot guy, right now preferably Sasuke.
"I'm marrying that creepy red haired guy from the tree earlier" Sakura and Sasuke's eyes widened in shock.
"creepy red haired guy?" Kakashi asked confused.
"we met him and his team earlier when one of his teammates almost beat up hokage sama's grandson and he threatened to kill the guy for it, pale kid, has dark rings around his eyes, bright red hair, from suna, what was his name again…" Sakura said filling him in "Sabaku no Gaara" Sasuke supplied "we're going to fight in the chuunin exams tomorrow. I can tell he will be a strong opponent" Anticipation coloured his voice as he spoke.
"be careful not to underestimate your opponents sasuke, suna has been focusing on quality rather than quantity in their ninja recently so there's no doubt in my mind that he's no push over" Kakashi reprimanded Sasuke.
"when are you going on a date? What are you going to wear! I have to tell Ino about this! Oh! When's the wedding!" Sakura was bouncing in her seat in excitement.
"um, tonight at some restaurant, I don't know I think the old man said he was sending me a kimono, please don't tell Ino its equivalent of shouting it from the roof tops I'll tell them all myself sometime, and uh I don't know he said some time after I turn sixteen" Naruto listed off the answers in order the questions were asked.
"well okay…but you have to tell me the details of your date tomorrow!" Sakura leaned back in her seat satisfied with the answer.
"you guys better eat up before your food gets any colder" Kakashi pointed out the meal Naruto hadn't noticed had arrived "and don't forget to go to the academy on time to hand in your forms for the chuunin exam" Kakashi reminded them as they too began to dig in.
It was about six o'clock in the evening when Naruto heard a knock on her door, she slowly put down her book and pulled a kunai from her pouch on the nearby coffee table and slipped it into her sleeve. Slowly she opened the door "hello?"
suddenly her door was pushed all the way open as a small group of people came rushing in "well my dear what are you standing here for? Get moving!" a young woman said.
"w-wha?" Naruto confusedly.
"well what are you waiting for! Get in the shower!" said a larger, snobbish looking elder woman.
"wait what! Who are you people?!" said Naruto starting to get overwhelmed by the sudden rush of people.
"by the looks of it you need a good scrub-down, your skin is dry, we'll need to wash and moisturize your tangled hair, a full on manicure and pedicure, goodness me hokage sama really gave us a hard one with such little time!" the woman listed as she pushed Naruto into the bathroom.
"hey! I moisturize just fine thank you! And it's not my fault if my hair tangles easily! wait, wait, The old man sent you?" Naruto asked as her dropped kunai on the tile floor to unzip her jacket.
"that's hokage sama young lady! How rude! do you not know how to respect your elders, I ought to convince hokage sama to let give you etiquette lessons!" she said as she swatted Naruto on the head "now in the shower with you"
with a sigh Naruto was about to close the curtain behind her when it was yanked wide open by a woman with black hair. Naruto shrieked in shock and tried to cover herself up only to hear the woman say "please calm down mistress I'm just going to wash your hair" she said with a smile.
"uh, no thanks I can wash it myself…" Naruto mumbled creeped out as she began to slowly close the curtain again, only to be stopped by the woman "I'm sorry mistress but I was assigned to wash your hair, so I must" she persisted.
"I'm sorry but I'm not comfortable with…this" Naruto gestured with one hand trying to preserve what little was left of her modesty.
"I'm sorry but maybe you could just turn around and pretend I'm not here? Were in a bit of a rush so we have to overlap some of the scheduled treatments" she said trying to compromise.
With another sigh Naruto gave in and began to wash herself ignoring the extra set of hands working through her hair. After they both finished naruto walked back to the living room clad in only a blue towel to then notice a whole milk bath was prepared, with pink flower pedals floating in it.
In the middle of her living room.
"What is all this!" Naruto yelled at them.
"I told you, your skin is dry, so a milk bath with fix that right up! And the flower petals will make you smell divine, then you'll no longer have that putrid stench all ninja seem to have" the woman said turning her nose up.
"I don't smell! If anything that crap reeks, can you use something less strong if you have to add a sent" Naruto said fanning in front of her face. With a sigh the woman signaled for her assistants to pack up the bath and replaced it with one that had the light scent of cinnamon "Now get in"
Tentatively Naruto released her towel before stepping into the warm bath and let out a sigh of relief "hand please" a girl with light brown hair said.
"uh, sure" Naruto said giving her hand to her. The woman began to file her nails, giving them perfectly rounded tips; she then did the same with her toes while naruto soaked "now dry off and put on this robe for now, were going to begin picking out a furisode" accepting her towel naruto dried of and put on the offered white robe.
The woman began flipping through a catalog "furisode?" Naruto asked confused.
"it's a style of kimono that has long sleeves that go down to about your knees that young woman wear to formal events, it also shows that she's a legal adult and single, thus available for marriage" the woman said absently as looked for the right one. "I want to pick a colour that will really make you look feminine since you're rather rough around the edges…im thinking something with pink…ah! Here it is!" the woman said pointing to blue silk furisode with an ocean wave pattern, there was a branch of a sakura tree extending from the right side of it to part of the left knee length sleeve, the obi was red with a gold trim.
All of her assistants agreed with her choice as they also looked into their copies of the book "I think it would make her look adorable!, and since were going with the cute look that means we should also go light with the makeup and let her natural beauty shine through" said the woman a woman with platinum blond hair whom she didn't notice before.
"truly genius as always Hikari!" the elderly woman praised her "now let's get started!"
it took them a little over half an hour to properly put on and adjust the furisode to naruto's proportions, and when they were finished they weren't disappointed with their choice in outfit.
"now please go over to Megumi here and she'll apply a touch of makeup then then Yuna will style your hair" the woman said pointing to the brown and black haired girls from before.
With a sigh Naruto sat in the chair "so just how much makeup are you putting on?" she asked almost afraid of the answer.
"oh just some eye shadow, eyeliner, and mascara to really bring out you pretty eyes and maybe a little blush" Megumi said with a smile.
"uh sure" Naruto said not quite sure what all these things were.
With a giggle Megumi explained as she applied them "this here is eye shadow. You apply it to your eyelids to give them some colour and it makes your eye colour really stand out depending on what colour you chose. Now this is eyeliner. You trace it around your eyelids to get a more dramatic look. And finally mascara, you use it on your eyelashes to darken, curl, colour and thicken them. Then some blush, you use it to bring out your cheek bones. Last but certainly not least some clear lip gloss to finish it up!" after the ten minutes it took to apply all the makeup, Naruto learned a little about cosmetics and even the basics of how to apply them.
"now it's my turn, we're going to style your hair into an up-do. Did you know when you wear a kimono your neck must be free and showing?" said Yuna stepping in Megumi's place.
"really? Huh never knew. I've never worn any sort of kimono before…" Naruto said thinking.
Naruto sat bored as Yuna skillfully styled her hair into a curly bun with a comb hair ornament in it "all done!" Yuna announced as she clapped her hands together, she helped Naruto out of her chair and led her to the full body mirror set up near-by, Naruto stretched her limbs along the way, stiff from sitting still for so long.
Naruto gasped in shock from her reflection, her eyes looking wide and innocent from the emphasis of the eyeliner and mascara, the small amount of baby pink eye shadow making her eyes look a brighter blue than normal, the light blush made her look more feminine and delicate then anyone could have imagined she could've ever looked. Her intricately styled bun had two gold combs with sapphire gems sticking out on both sides giving them the shape of butterfly wings.
"Truly stunning, no?" the older woman whispered. Naruto could only nod in agreement.
with a chuckle the woman said "I'm sure your date will be spell bound by your beauty, here you need to wear the proper footwear as well" she said smiling as she handed over a pair of split toe socks and sandals "th-thank you, all of you" Naruto said smiling as she gratefully accepted the shoes.
"now don't you go crying, you'll ruin that make up I worked so hard on" said Megumi teasingly.
with a laugh Naruto said "the one who's crying is Hikari" and sure enough the blond was in tears looking at their hard work.
"i-I'm just so happy! B-before I used the term female loosely on you but now I see you were truly a diamond in the rough" she finished with a sniffle.
"…thaaanks" Naruto said not so please at what Hikari thought was a compliment to her.
A knock resounded through the house as another uninvited guest arrived "oh! Its time already! It must be your date, remember to act lady like!" Yuna yelled excitedly to her as she opened the door.
She was a little shocked to say the least.
"oh…uh I wasn't aware your date was so…old…" she said awkwardly as she stepped aside.
"old? He's my age" Naruto said confusedly as she walked to the door to see who it was.
Only to see Kakashi in all his masked glory "yo~" he said with his trademark eye smile.
"Kakashi sensei!? What are you doing here?" naruto asked confused.
"I'm your escort" he said cheerily.
"ohthankgod" Yuna said in relief then laughed "you know for a second there I thought you were a pedophile" she put her hand to her chest.
"you actually weren't that far off" Naruto muttered ignoring the wounded look on Kakashi's face.
"why are you my escort?" she said eye twitching.
"well I can't just trust one of my precious little students in the hands of complete strangers for a night" he said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
'besides I really want to scope out this Gaara kid. If he wants my adorable little sister he's going to have to go through me first' Kakashi thought to himself as he pulled out a camera.
"what're-" Naruto stopped mid-sentence as she furiously blinked trying to get her vision back from the blinding flash of the photo.
"so cute" Kakashi said as he took another picture, this one had Naruto red with embarrassment in the photo making Kakashi think this one looked even cuter.
"st-stop with the photos!" Naruto demanded.
"why? I want to show everyone how pretty you look the sandaime wanted a picture; I also promised sakura I'd get her a copy, not to mention I want one too. It's not every day I get to see you dressed so nicely, you look really girly" as kakashi rambled Naruto got more and more embarrassed at the thought of all these people seeing her like this.
"just take me to the restaurant already before were late!" Naruto yelled at him still red.
"alright, alright, now take my hand Naru-chan we wouldn't want you to get lost" he said as if speaking to a small child. Grumbling Naruto took his hand as they walked out the door, ignoring the girls giggles in the background as they packed up their small portable salon.
"oh wait! Hey grandma what's your name?" Naruto yelled back to them from the door way.
"how dare you call me a grandma! I'll be sure to beat some etiquette into you next time! And just call me Madam Haru" she introduced herself annoyed at the title Naruto gave her.
"my Name's Uzumaki Naruto! Again thanks for everything! Bye!" Naruto yelled as she closed the door.
"I'll leave a kagebushin to lock up the place after they leave" Kakashi said answering Naruto's unfinished thought.
People couldn't help but stare in awe as Naruto walked down the streets, it wasn't that wearing a kimono of any sorts was strange even though most people preferred western style clothes on regular days, it was that Naruto the loud brash tomboy out of anyone was wearing one, and looked cute too as she blushed from all the attention.
"aw is Naru chan shy? I never knew you had such a soft side" Kakashi said teasing her.
Naruto decided to ignore him at that point and just stared ahead with a pout on her face, she soon started growling after being blinded again by the flash of his camera "are we almost there?" Naruto ground out irritably.
"what are you talking about Naru chan we just started walking" Kakashi said clearly enjoying himself.
"can't you just shunshin us there?!" Naruto yelled at him.
"but then we would miss out on all the sights and the fresh air as we peacefully stroll there" he said with a mask concealed grin.
"just do it" Naruto said glaring.
With a laugh Kakashi said taking a mock bow "as you wish princess" and quickly did the hand signs.
"don't call me prince-" Naruto's yell was cut off as they disappeared from the streets in a swirl of leaves.
The pair suddenly reappeared in front of a large high end restaurant with a bright neon sign that read le rouge maison in cursive red letters.
"here we are" Kakashi said leading her inside.
"reservation?" the employee at the front desk asked.
"yes Uzumaki Naruto and Hatake Kakashi here to dine with Sabaku no Gaara and Kaze no Baki" Kakashi answered professionally.
"ah yes, here you are, your company has already arrived not too long ago, this gentlemen here with show you to your tables" the man said politely.
"thank you" Kakashi said to the man as they walked away. They entered to restaurants main dining room to be greeted by the sound of clinking sliver wear to plate as people ate and conversed quietly, the sound reminding her of the low murmur of a brook.
"right this way" the man said leading them past several tables toward a less crowded area where is was also a bit quieter. "here we are" the man said as he pulled out Naruto's chair that was seated across from Gaara, who was wearing a grey kimono with a black haori over top, Kakashi took the seat across from Baki at a table a little ways away from theirs.
"here are your menus, please enjoy your night at le rouge maison" the waiter said before he left to serve another table.
For a few moments both Naruto and Gaara stared at each other "sooo…your names Gaara right…" Naruto said leaving her sentence hanging trying to start a conversation.
Taking his lack of response as a confirmation she continued to talk "well in case you forgot…my name is Naruto…" her voice trailed off as she didn't know where to go with the one-sided conversion from there.
"uh…so, um how did you first find out we were going to be married?" she said hoping to get him to say something, or at least get him to stop staring as if he thought it would make her go away, as tempting as it currently seemed.
After a bit of silence he finally decided to answer "…my father said this was my only use left since I was a failure as a weapon" his voice monotone and uncaring.
Naruto was unsure of how to respond to that so she tried asking another question "well…so uh, how do you feel about this whole…thing" she asked hoping to get a better idea of his personality.
"I hate it. especially the fact that I'll be stuck with someone as loud and annoying as Kankuro" he said bluntly.
"hey!" she yelled causing the nearby tables to look over.
"inside voice Naru chan" Kakashi reminded her with his nose stuck within the pages of his beloved icha icha, but that didn't mean he wasn't paying attention, in fact he was ready to strangle Gaara at a moment's notice.
She lowered her voice to a harsh whisper "I don't exactly want to be stuck with a emotionless stuck up prick for the remaining years of my life, but at least I'm trying. So the least you could do is be at least a little flexible!" he glared harshly at her and this time she didn't back down from his intense stare, leveling it with her own.
"wow you can feel the tension from here" Kakashi said to Baki, still reading as they waited for their meals.
"well so far it's going better than anyone could have hoped for" Baki mumbled as he watched their glaring match. He wasn't sure if one of them had a lightning affinity but he was certain he saw sparks flying between them, and not the romantic kind either.
chapter 2 is done! celebrate my people, and wait in anticipation for the next one! oh my gosh when sasuke said he hadn't trained them properly i just suddenly thought of him whipping and yelling at them while they all kneel in a line (whether you take this as a sexual situation is up to you...) maybe i should make a misleading omake about that...