: Hope you liked it! Especially after the dumbest chapter I did. Anyway it exams and my 3rd exam ended just a while ago so I decided to write this cuz I was so excited for the finale of part one! Ok someone had better stop me before I…ACK!
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Chapter 9: New Truths
It was night again, the sky as black as the Uchiha's alluring, charming, obsidian eyes and hair. The moon glowed as pale as his skin and…
'Wait, did I just thought about his eyes and hair?! And why the hell did the moon turned to his face?!'
"No!" Naoko shouted, her cerulean eyes were suddenly wide at the realization that she just screamed with absolutely no reason. Her raven-haired teammate gave her a look. "Ahahaha…sorry…guess I was excited…hehe…" with an apologizing look, she sheepishly rubbed her hair and grinned. The Uchiha raised a brow but said nothing and continued walking. Naoko following closely behind. 'I made a fool of myself again…'
Naoko was so distracted by her thoughts that she never noticed that they had come to a stop and were on a…a place…a place hard to describe. It was so amazing! And the blonde couldn't do anything but stare in awe while Sasuke smirked at amusement. There was grass covering the whole place and flowers, lots of flowers, different kinds of flowers were arranged exotically beautiful around the place and the Sakura tree was standing beside them was slowly, gently dropping pink flowers around them. The moon's silver light that looked a lot closer than before gave the whole place a soft glow, making the whole place look a lot more ethereal.
"This is the Uchiha's hidden garden, not a single person who isn't an Uchiha has ever seen it before." Sasuke said softly so he would break the peace of the moment, but it broke through the blonde's reverie, he looked at the half moon hanging above them before he stared at the blonde's beautiful face that overcame the garden's beauty and kissed the girl.
Naoko close her eyes tightly before she pushed away the boy that she fell in love with in a matter of few days. She was about to shout obscenities to the raven but he stopped her by embracing her and giving a chaste kiss.
"I…I love you." He said so softly it was barely above a whisper. Naoko, with her wide cerulean eyes looked at Sasuke's onyx ones to see if this was just some kind of cruel joke however she only saw love, affection and sincerity in them, she quickly looked away, unable to take it.
'After lying to you so much, I…I…' she thought guiltily before she spoke out loud. "I-I-I-I'm sorry! I-I just can't!" she turned around and pulled away but a pale hand firmly grabbed her wrist and pulled so hard it made her face him again.
"Why?" Sasuke asked calmly, sadness evident in his voice as he looked at her heartbrokenly. The blonde didn't answer she harshly squirmed away from the pale hands gripping her, she turned around and ran until she was outside the gates of the Uchiha territory.
"Stupid! Stupid! Stupid Sasuke! You have no idea what you are saying! You big idiot!" she muttered angrily as she continued to walk away from the manor. She laughed at the Uchiha's foolishness for loving her. "I'm a guy, you moron." And before she knew it, tears are already uncontrollably running down her face.
Her heart broke at the image of Sasuke's sad expression, everybody knows she would do anything to prevent the Uchiha from being sad, but is she willing to sacrifice herself for the raven's happiness? Doing so is just plain stupid and selfish but…is she allowed to be selfish?
'I'm known for being stupid!' the blonde furiously wiped her tears away with the back of her hand and headed for the gardens again to look for Sasuke. Even if it's stupid, even if it's pointless, even if this would only bring pain to her, even if…she would do anything to be loved by him even just for a minute. 'I love you so much, it hurts! Stupid Sasuke! You better be still there or else I'll kick your miserable butt!'
She arrived at the beautiful garden once more but the raven-haired teen wasn't there anymore, she looked around but there was still no sign of something relatively black or miserable. She was about to go when…a ball of black blur coming from the top of the tree blocked her way, the pale face was radiating with hope even though it was only smirking cockily. "Looking for something?"
The blonde smiled genuinely before a slightly tanned fist punched him lightly. "I hate you, you know that? You make me look stupid, make me do something stupid and make me confused about my feelings!" she angrily annoyed said however, her raven-haired admirer just chuckled lightly. "Hey! Don't laughed! I'm not yet finished!" she snapped with a glare, Sasuke stopped but he was still smiling at her nervous stupidness. Naoko took a deep breath to calm her self before continuing. "I don't know what the hell have you done to me but…ARGH! I don't know why the hell can't I just say I love you Sasuke!" she said frustratedly before she practically shouted. "I love you Sasuke! I love you! Why can't I just say those words?! GAH! Now I look so stupid!" she threw her hands in the air and continued to ramble on and on about who knows what.
"Usuratonkachi, you said it." Smooth baritone voice with a hint of amusement interfered Naoko's rambling about senseless things.
"Huh? I said what?" the blonde asked obviously totally confused about what, her now new boyfriend was talking about.
"You said 'I love you' to me, dobe." He pointed out with a smile. The girl's mouth hanged open at the realization but Sasuke quickly closed it by kissing her soft pink lips. "If you keep your mouth open like that an insect would come in." he said coolly before hugging the blonde and diving for another kiss. '….I love you too…' he felt slender arms shyly wrap around his neck.
Stupid…Sasuke…
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"Don't worry, no matter what kind of sins you've done, I'll still love you. I could care less how you look, you're the Kiyoshi I love and will love until forever. It wouldn't decrease just because you don't look like a girl." The brunette lightly kissed Kiyoshi's blushing cheek before he smiled. "You're smart, cheerful, kind and you look absolutely lovely, I would never exchange such a lovely person such as you for any guy or girl." He kissed the redhead's hair before he wiped the tears staining his love's cheeks, who didn't even seem to notice them.
All of a sudden something snapped inside Kiyoshi, he jumped to be able kiss Kazuma on the lips before practically shouting. "I love you too!" again and again while grinning like an idiot, Kazuma smiled back as his lover danced around, chanting.
That grin remain plastered until the next day and he chanted 'I love you too. I love you too.' whole night and day long, people were already starting to wonder that the hell is wrong with his brain however he didn't give a damn, he is happy and nobody ruins it and that applies to everybody-even Kazuma-especially to the non-significant people.
I love you too…
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The next morning, Naoko woke up rather groggily, she was very tired for no reason at all, well…perhaps because of the mission and yesterday's events, she shrugged it off. She ran her fingers through her long blonde hair in attempt to fix it a little before she went to the bathroom. She splashed some cold water on her heavily sleep marred face before she grinned at her reflection on the small mirror.
Today she has a date with Sasuke, yep! It is a DATE! Their first official DATE! So she had better get prepared. Honestly, she was still sleepy, actually, she never thought she would even get a wink of sleep because of the excitement but as soon as her head touched the pillow, she was immediately knocked out.
Anyway! She wanted to look her best when Sasuke sees her so she has to dress up, put make up and…oh! Take a bath, she was so excited that she forgot. After taking a bath she dressed in one of her loose gray shirts and black shorts. She opened her closet to be faced with dozens of clothes, she tried to find some good clothes, but eventually she fainted, she didn't know what clothes to wear and how to put make up.
"Oh no…" She rested her head on her hand as she tried to come up with a plan, sadly, not a single idea came up, she was about to scream her frustration to the world and break the eardrums of her neighbors and by-passers when she saw a bundle of raven hair and lavender. She smiled. 'Problem no. 1 solved!'
"Hi-Na-Ta-Ch-An!" she shouted so loud that the others have to cover their ears tightly to be able to live through while others only winced, probably the more experienced. Hinata just smiled and waved back at the blonde grinning so wildly at her, totally unaffected by the loudness. The gold blur was downstairs and in front of the Hyuuga in a flash, she was so fast the raven didn't even have the time to blink.
"Hinata-chan! Do me a favor! Please help me!" Naoko bowed, closed her blue eyes and clasped her hands tightly before Hinata, the girl stepped back a little from shock and blinked at confusion. "Please you're my only hope!" the blonde was practically begging, pleading and…whatever…Hinata felt a little sorry for the girl so she agreed.
"What favor are you asking from me?" the timid girl asked curiously, what does she needs so much that she came so far as pleading like that? And if she knew any better Naoko never pleads or begs. 'My only hope? What does she mean?' she patiently waited for the madly blushing girl to answer after a minute or so the girl spoke so softly she could barely caught it.
"I…I have a d-date…" Naoko murmured, wishing that Hinata already heard her, her ocean blue eyes met with the other's pale purple ones. Hinata blinked twice at the realization before asking again.
"With Sasuke?" the blonde nodded. "So…?" she looked at her, observed her, her clothes, hair, face, expression, nervous gestures…before she came to a conclusion. "So…you need help in preparing for your date?" the girl nodded twice before showing she baby blue, puppy dog eyes, Hinata sighed. "Okay." She chirped a bit excitedly before leading them to the Hyuuga mansion. 'I don't think she has 'that' many clothes to choose from or make-up in her house, maybe next time I'll buy for her.' The raven-haired girl thought.
Soon they were there and she led them to her room, which was a combination of soft yellows, light browns, lavenders and pastel blues. She opened her large wardrobe filled with different kinds of clothes-being rich sure had a lot of advantages-, some of them never got out of that large wardrobe because Hinata wasn't all that interested in dressing up but today the lucky one could see daylight.
Naoko was so amazed by quantity and beauty of Hinata's clothes that she didn't notice the girl already picking up some clothes for her to wear. "I could call Sakura and the others so they could help me…?" the raven said-more like asked-suggestively while she grabbed a light green summer dress that would definitely suit Naoko.
The blonde shuddered and Hinata already understood, it is scary to have Sakura around, she'll be so excited that she'd even outdo Naoko's, Ino would disagree whatever the pink-haired girl suggests and Tenten…would be Tenten. A sweatdropped from the Hyuuga when she saw the blonde was starting to turn blue. "I-I'm s-sorry, maybe t-that w-wasn't such a g-good idea…" she said guiltily before continuing her search for the perfect clothes.
'Maybe 'that' was my imagination…'
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After going through a lot of clothes, and when I say 'a lot' I meant a thousand clothes, before they were able to choose the one that the blonde was wearing now.
Hinata waved Naoko goodbye and wished her luck, now that the blonde was out of sight the girl's pale face contorted into sadness. "Na…Naruto-kun…" she whispered softly before falling-kneeling-weakly on the floor. Of course, she knew! Naoko was so much like Naruto and that first day they had gone shopping for her clothes Sakura already told them, though the boys were probably not informed. She ran to her room and cried but after a few minutes she already stopped, moving forward was one of the things the blond taught her and she would do so, crying isn't going to do anything good, it's a waste of time and energy.
'Naruto-kun, I like you very much…' she smiled before washing streaks of tear marks that marred her face. Suddenly something struck her as she remembered Naoko's face and it got her worried. 'She doesn't look like she's feeling well…like she's dizzy or something…' she was really worried now but she can't chase after her just to ask something like that.
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So today Sasuke looked absolutely…
The girls almost fainted when they saw the raven, he was just…well…very handsome, charming and…drop dead gorgeous.
THUD!!! Another group of girls fainted…WHOA! Someone actually died!
The raven teen was clad in a plain, round neck shirt, baggy, black pants and a black, hooded jacket. His raven hair was matted down a little, just enough to make the village girls faint. Not much, but that was something really rare-that you might not see ever again-, especially from the Uchiha. He waited by a tree near some store he didn't bother to memorize the name. Until…
THUD! THUD!!! Another set of girls…and boys…
The blonde had arrived dressed in a very short dress that ended in her mid-thighs, it was light blue but on the side of the dress there was a sewn sky blue strings hanging up to her knees, it was designed to decide the length of the dress if you pulled the strings the cloth would ruffle and thus shorten, it was adjustable. She also wore a rusty, see through, long sleeved, hooded jacket.
THUD!
Her long blonde hair was clipped but only a small portion of the right side and she looked as beautiful as ever with light make-up and neatly combed hair. Sasuke instantly pulled the blonde for a hug and a kiss before proceeding to their date. Did I say in public? Sasuke didn't give a damn.
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"What are those crazy guys up to?!" Naoko said in between her pants, they had been running away from those hormonal fanboys and girls and how long has it been? They only managed to grab an hour of peace before they had been spotted, yet again. 'Why am I so tired I don't usually get tired that easily and my body hurts too.' She winced at the pain.
"What's wrong?" the raven asked worriedly, the storm started brewing up above them but neither of them noticed.
"Nothing! I'm fine!" Naoko smiled and jumped twice and turned to prove that she was though the taller male didn't looked convinced at all. "Hehe…anyway, I want to eat some of that!" she cheerfully pointed her finger before racing to the crepes vendor, Sasuke sighed at her childishness before smiling and followed his girlfriend.
After Naoko finished her chocolate filled crepe, it started to drizzle and she started to feel the drops of water on her skin. They wait for the raging fans—who were causing a ruckus-to deplete before they made a run for it, Sasuke covered the blonde by taking of the sleeves of his jacket and covered them both barely. It was getting cold but they both shared their body heat, suddenly Sasuke felt something odd.
'Her skin feels so hot, scorching. It's abnormal!' He turned to the girl and saw her breathing raggedly, her face in very red and her blue eyes were dull and hazed, he gingerly touched her skin only to find that she has…a fever! He carried her in his arms and layed his jacket on her body, he dashed to his house as fast as he could, only one thought was running through his mind. To get Naoko into safety! 'Please be fine!' he prayed as he sped up more when he saw her pained face looked even worse than before.
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Sasuke layed his pained girlfriend on his very own bed and she is getting worse by the minute. 'Her clothes are dripping wet! It's making her condition worse!' He almost panickly searched for clothes but as we all know Uchihas never panics so he calmly got into his parents room and got his mother's old clothes. The teen gave them to Naoko who weakly tried to be a less burden to Sasuke.
"Sorry…I ruined our first date." The blonde girl laughed lightly but weakly as the raven tucked her in the bed.
"Don't worry, I'll make sure this won't be our last one. Just get some rest." He replied, brushing the wet silken hair before heading to the door. 'She looks much better now.'
"Thanks." Sasuke heard before he completely closed the door. Man, this must be the most tiring afternoon he ever experienced. A sick blonde could cause you more trouble than you expected.
'My head hurts, my body…it feels like I'm going to burst but I can't…' Tiredness lulled her to sleep, Naoko saw her whole world turn to black and she felt relax and more comfortable like…
3 hours, 3 hour had already passed and the blonde has yet to wake up. Sasuke was so worried, every 20 minutes he checks her up incase he could be of any help but the blonde stayed asleep the whole time she didn't even stir everytime Sasuke walks in, not that he was making a single noise. It is exactly 4 o' clock, it's time to check upon her again, he used his stealth as ninja to be able to walk in without making a single sound and as expected the girl was still asleep he was about to leave when he heard murmuring sounds.
A soft blue eye peeked open and relief washed over the raven not that anyone would notice it, well…perhaps a blue-eyed blond would. The blond carefully sat up before smiling somewhat, he was actually half expecting the raven to smile back but he gave him nothing but a wide-eyed expression. The blond tilted his head to the side confusedly looking at his boyfriend.
"Na-Naruto…" he barely heard him whisper, this time it was the blond's turn to be shocked, he looked at his body up and down only to find out that he had returned to his original body and in the raven's house with no escape. Sasuke's pale face switched from shocked to angered and hurt.
"Sasuke…I-I can explain! P-Please!" Naruto got up from the bed and kneeled in front of the angered male.
"You! How dare you!" the raven angrily shouted, tears started to leak out of Naruto's beautiful cerulean eyes.
"I'm sorry! I-I understand if you hate me now, I lied to you! I'm Naoko! I accidentally drank a potion that turned me into a woman, you can hate me and loath me! I won't expect you to forgive me after I've lied so much to you. But I promise you my feelings for you are true!" he cried, tears fell freely from his tanned face though he tried not to cry.
'Why an I crying now?! I'm the one who lied, I have no right! I knew this was going to happen but I still continued my foolishness! I was selfish!' he shut his eyes tightly waiting for any retort that would come out from Sasuke's mouth, the person he loves telling him that he hates him and never wanted to have anything to do with him anymore. I hate you! I hate you! These words keep repeating his head but before he knew it strong firm arms wrapped around him gently but securely.
"Baka, let me finish first! I was going to say how dare you turn into a girl?" he said in his ear before he kissed his low forehead slightly covered by short blonde bangs, blurred blue eyes were wider than before and he looked directly to Sasuke's black orbs, he can't simply believe what was happening, what is going to happen next? Is he going to hate him? Love him perhaps? Naruto wanted to believe the latter.
"Shh…please don't cry…I love you…" Sasuke cooed as he gently stroke the soft and fragrant blond mess of hair. But instead more tears ran down from those beautiful sapphire orbs.
"Idiot! Because you're angry at me all of a sudden! I thought…I thought…!" The blond retorted, closing his eyes tightly as he weakly punched the slightly older male's chest while he cried in relief. Sasuke loved him, as Naruto!
"I got angry because you turned into a girl, I loved you for who you are and when you turned into a girl I got angry because it wasn't the real you and I wanted to scold you but…" the raven explained, apologetic at the same time but Naruto abruptly cut him off.
"I'm sorry." A blush high on his tanned cheeks as he apologized, he was ashamed at himself for jumping conclusions too quickly without proofs. And he caused Sasuke a lot of trouble because of it.
"It doesn't matter now." Sasuke whispered softly as he tried to stop his blond's tears and get him to calm down and relaxed enough to hear his explanation. They just stayed there, Sasuke embracing the petite blond who was sobbing softy, while waiting he placed several kisses at random places of the other male's tanned face and blond hair. After a few minutes, the blond boy was calm again only sniffing occasionally.
Sasuke took a deep breath before he started explaining himself. "I knew form the very start that you were Naruto, you never changed even you're a girl." He chuckled at the memory at how Naoko acted so similarly to Naruto that it was already too obvious to him. "You could've tried to be more feminine and delicate, I bet everybody figured it out, dobe." He taunted playfully.
"I'm a GUY! And I'm not 'that' OBVIOUS! Bastard!" Naruto pouted cutely annoyed by being indirectly told that his acting skills were inadequate.
Sasuke snorted but gave him a small kiss on the cheek, completely ignoring the 'bastard' comment. "I love you Naruto, I love you it doesn't matter weather you're a guy or a girl." He kissed the irresistible cute blond's lips, he tighten his hold on the slightly slim but muscular body of the blond and ran a pale hand across the other's back.
"Teme! It matters!" The younger male retorted playfully after what seemed like a never-ending sweet kiss from his raven lover.
The older male just raised an elegant brow observing that there was a bright smile on his face and…"Yeah, it matters. I'm sure you'll look sexy with all of your girly clothes…" Naruto was wearing a dirty white, spaghetti strapped, short dress that was quite too small for him so it hugged all of his curves at the right places and it was too short it almost exposed his white panties he didn't know he was still wearing. "…I bet you're even more breathtaking without them…" added as an after thought the image already forming in his mind. "…but I would prefer it if you're covered with my favorite soup." Sasuke slyly licked his dry lips and with a predatory look, he darted to the pretty little Naruto.
"GYAH! SASUKE STOP! AAAHHH! NO! LISTEN TO ME! NOOOOO! ACK! STOP THAT! DON'T! STUPID! I HAVE A FEVER!"
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~AngelYuuri
~No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever
Any Comments? Suggestions? Corrections? Requests? Violent reactions? Please tell me.
A/N: Hey guys! The next chapter will be the epilogue and then the story is finished! So super(with capes and inhuman strength) sorry for those who were disappointed I really planned to make a continuation but some sort of voice inside my head is telling to stop here. Anyway the sooner I finish this story the faster will I be able to make another story and I don't think I'll ever be able to do a 100,000 or 60,000 words long story. Anyway, I hope you're not too disappointed to hate me, to tell the truth I was also quite disappointed with myself. Please inform me if there is something in the story like errors, loopholes so I could correct them.
Ok! Explanations:
1. I know Naruto is not the type of guy/girl to overly prepare for a date(the one I wrote isn't even that much exaggerating), but like I said it's her instinct to do that besides when your on your first date didn't you even prepare your clothes?
2. I have no sense of fashion, I know…so anyone with suggestions out there please help me, there is something seriously wrong in my head.
3. I don't think Sasuke is a big fan of sweets(except for Naruto) so instead of chocolates, cream, icing, juices or candies I chose soup.
4. As for the others who requested some things to be put in the story, don't worry if you didn't see it here cuz I'll put it in the epilogue. For those who I didn't put their request I'm already saying sorry.
5. I don't know if you've noticed but I never made Sasuke say 'I love you Naoko.' but only 'I love you.' So that explains a lot don't you think?
