AN/ Hey you guys and girls, I'm back and I finally finished chapter 4 of this fic. Okay, first I just wanna say sorry for the wait but I got stuck for a while and then when I moved, I forgot to save what I had on a disc so I had to start over again. Also- ah the heck with it. Let's just go to the story.
Disclaimer: This is getting old… I don't own Naruto.
"Speech"
'Thought'
'Inner Sakura'
"Demon Speech"
Naruto Wandering Demon
Chapter 4: An Unwanted Reunion
Naruto, Sakura, and Shadow were walking through the forest searching for the river. How Naruto and Shadow forgot where the river was is beyond Sakura.
"I think it was this way…"
"No you dumb ass, it's this way."
"I'm telling you, it's this way!"
"Yeah, and you also tell me that if I let seeds fall into my fur, and let them stay there, a plant will grow, so shut up."
"Hey, I thought I was your master. So if I say something's one way, it's that way!"
"You also thought you could beat the Nibi but you were way off."
"That's not fair, she cheated! She got in a low blow."
"It doesn't matter. What matters is that you are always wrong."
"Am not!"
"Are too!"
"Name one other time when I was wrong!"
"When you thought that if you were close to beating the Nibi, which you weren't, you should be able to beat Shukaku."
"And I was wrong, how?"
"You couldn't even beat his son."
"I let Gaara win, okay!?"
"Please, he had you running around the field for a half hour before he got bored and finished it."
"Exactly! I never tried to hit him! I was saving my energy for his dad!"
"A lot of good that did you. He crushed you too."
"I was too tired from fighting Gaara to-,"
"Oh my god, would you two shut up!" yelled Sakura, interrupting Naruto, and making them both cover their ears. When they let go of their ears, she spoke again. "If you two idiots argue again, I'm going to castrate you."
Naruto, who had heard Shadow whimper, looked at her confused. "Castrate? The hell does that mean?" he asked.
Sakura stared at him for a while before looking over at Shadow. "What's wrong with him?"
"I ask myself that question, everyday." Was his response.
She laughed a little and looked back at Naruto. "I'll leave that for you to figure out in the future. Now let's just hurry up and find the river." She said, and motioned for him to go.
After another ten minutes of searching, she decided to ask a question that had been bugging her since she met Shadow. "Hey guys?" she said to get their attention. Once she had it she continued, "I've been wondering, which one of you is stronger?" she asked.
"Me!" came the yells from both fox demons before they looked at each other and glared.
"What do you mean, you? I'm stronger!" yelled Naruto.
"Ha! You, stronger than me? That'll be the day!" yelled Shadow.
"You know I'm stro-," Naruto started before he was cut off by Sakura.
"Guys." she said through clenched teeth. "What did I say?" she asked and Shadow put his head down. Naruto though, still didn't know what she meant,.. so he was about to continue to argue until Shadow jumped on him, making him fall back.
"If you ever want to mate, with your mate, you will, shut. The. Fuck. Up. I don't care if you don't plan on mating, I do." He whispered to Naruto before got off.
Sakura looked on as Shadow tackled Naruto, whispered something, got off and Naruto sat up. She glared at Naruto as he stared at her, innocence on his face making her drop her glare while mumbling something about, "Dumb fox demons."
Naruto got up and started to walk in the same direction as before, Shadow close behind. After a couple seconds Sakura noticed they were moving and went after them. "Hey! You guys never answered my question!" she yelled as she caught up with them.
"And how are we gonna answer it if we don't know who's stronger ourselves?" said Naruto and Shadow snickered. He looked down at him. "What?"
"I'm stronger than you, dumb ass." He said with a smirk.
"You are not." said Naruto, coming to a halt. "How could you be stronger than me when you're, like, half my age?" He questioned. "…How old are you Shadow?"
"I don't know," Shadow shrugged, "but it doesn't matter if I'm younger, I'm still stronger than you." He said.
"No you're not!" yelled Naruto, not noticing Sakura's eye brow twitching.
"Yes I am, just admit it!"
"I'll 'admit it' when you show me proof that you're stronger than me!"
"Fine!" shouted Shadow before turning towards Sakura. "You, keep track of my points, and Master Naruto's points." He ordered.
"What?" she asked. "What points?"
Shadow looked at her again. "We're going to list off our strengths and weaknesses and you keep score. Whoever has more points to them, wins." He explained. "Got it?"
"Yeah but why do I have to keep score?" she asked.
"Because, if I do it, he'll think I'm cheating and giving myself more points for no reason. And he can't do it because it'll take all his brain power just to remember all the things he can do."
"Hey!"
"Shut up, you know it's true."
"Is not!"
"Keep telling yourself that." said Shadow. "Now Sakura, please keep score for us."
"Alright, just tell me the 'skills' you two have and we'll see who's better." Said Sakura. "Which one is stronger, physically?" she asked and Naruto turned and started walking backwards.
"That's me. I can probably break a boulder with, like, two punches. Shadow though… well, he can tackle a rock all he wants, but he won't be able to break it." He said with a smile.
"..." shadow was silent, glaring at Naruto.
"Alright, that's one for Naruto. Now, who's faster?"
Naruto's smile fell and he sighed. "Shadow's faster than me. Way faster." He said.
"Mentally and physically." Said Shadow, smirking.
Naruto turned his head towards Shadow and narrowed his eyes. "Shut the fuck up, Shadow."
"See? He didn't deny it." Shadow said to Sakura.
Sakura just rolled her eyes. "Whatever lets hurry this-," she and Shadow stopped but Naruto keep going, backwards.
"What happened guys? Why'd you sto- ahh!" Naruto was cut off when he slipped and fell into the river. He came up a little while later, gasping for air. "Hey! Why didn't you guys tell me to stop!?" he asked as he got back on land.
"Not our fault you weren't paying attention, moron." said Shadow. "Also, shouldn't you have swum that way? Why'd you come back this way?" he asked.
"Um… crap, you're right. Should've gone that way… damn." Said Naruto, hitting his forehead with the palm of his hand. "Ah well," he looked up with a somewhat red forehead, "let's just go now."
Shadow backed up a little before running and jumping across the river. Naruto was about to do the same until he saw that Sakura was walking over the water. He stopped and stared at her. 'How the hell…?' he thought.
He tried to see if his foot would stay on top the water, but it kept sinking. Then he had and idea. He backed up like Shadow and ran towards the river. He used his speed and made it ten steps over the water before he sank like a rock.
When he came back up, Sakura was already almost to the other side. "Hey, Sakura! How are you doing that?" he asked.
Sakura turned her head to look back at him. "Doing what?" she asked.
"You know, that." He said, pointing at her feet.
She looked down and wondered if he meant water walking. "You mean, how am I walking on water?" she saw him nod his head. "I'm using chakra. I don't think demons can do this. You guys don't usually have much chakra, right?"
"Yea we do. We have a lot of chakra. Most demons just don't use it against humans cause they think humans aren't worthy of their full power. And that's how most demons die." He finished with a smile. "But anyways, I should be able to walk on water too!" he yelled and swam back to the opposite shore.
What he hadn't noticed was that a bunch of fish demon were making their way through the river. When Naruto tried to run over the river, and fell into it again, the fish demon thought he was attacking them.
Naruto opened his eyes after sinking again and his eyes widened. All around him, fish demon were looking at him with anger on their faces.
"You dare attack us!?" yelled one of the demons closest to Naruto.
Naruto opened his mouth to speak, but the only thing that came out was bubbles. He clamped his hands over his mouth to prevent any more air from escaping his lings. 'Shit.' He thought. 'How the hell am I gonna get outta this?' he asked himself mentally as the fish demon started getting closer.
-------------Back with Shadow and Sakura-----
Sakura was looking at the spot where Naruto had fallen in and started to get nervous when she saw bubbles come up. "Shadow… shouldn't we check if he's alright? I mean, he's taking a long time…."
"Nah, the idiot's probably trying to mess with us." Replied Shadow.
"Are you sure?" asked Sakura, still looking at where Naruto had fallen.
"Trust me, he's jus-" he was interrupted when Naruto jumped out of the water with a couple fish demons biting his arms, legs and one had even sunken it's teeth into his ass.
"Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!" he yelled in pain before he fell back into the river. He reemerged a few seconds later, trying desperately to swim away from the fish demon. Unfortunately for Naruto, they were faster than he was in water.
Sakura stood there; eyes wide, watching Naruto try to get away from the little demons while Shadow was rolling around on the ground, laughing. Sakura turned her attention from Naruto and glared at Shadow. "Why aren't you trying to help him?" she asked.
"Oh right," he said, trying to calm down, "You wa-want me to go-go in there and get atta-attacked too?" he asked. Then he got an idea. "Hey, Master Naruto! Why don't you just use a lightning attack!?" he yelled.
Naruto, who had recently managed to get out of the water and onto a rock in the middle of the river, looked towards him. "Good idea!" he yelled and started doing hand signs. Hand signs that Sakura didn't recognize. After the tenth one, his hand started to glow red, and it looked and sounded like electricity.
He brought his hand up above his head, getting ready to bring it down. But, as always, luck was not on Naruto's side, as when he brought his hand down, he slipped on the rock and fell into the water.
The last thing that everyone thought was, 'Oh shit.'
Naruto hit the water with a 'splash', and a second later; a part of the river glowed red. A few more seconds later, Naruto floated to the top of the water and started floating towards Shadow and Sakura. When he was close enough, they heard him say, "I hate you Shadow… you knew that would happen, didn't you?"
Shadow had to suppress his laughter. "Well… maybe I thought there was a chance it would happen…" he said, and got a hit to the top of the head, courtesy of Sakura.
"Idiot." She mumbled under her breath but it was heard by both of them. She looked over at Naruto and saw him wash up on the wet soil. She went and kneeled next to him. "You alright?" she asked.
Naruto sat up. "Yea, it wasn't that strong, the attack. Hardly fifteen percent of what it can do, so I'm okay." He said as he got up. He looked at her. "Uh… let's keep going. I think the village is that way…" he pointed in the direction that a path could be seen.
"No shit Sherlock." Said Shadow. "Lets just hurry, I bet your mate is starving, and wants to get some clean clothes."
"Yea, well she wouldn't be starving if you hadn't eaten the fish." Responded Naruto, slightly annoyed at Shadow. He was about to say more when Sakura, who didn't want to hear another pointless argument, grabbed his hand and pulled him with her towards the path.
"Shadow has a point. I'm kind of hungry, and I do want to get some clean clothes." She said. She saw him nod and they continued on the path. A few minutes later they arrived at a small village.
"Ah, shit." Sakura cursed when she saw the sign near the entrance of the village.
"What?" asked Naruto, wondering why she had cursed. "Is something wrong?"
"Kind of…" she responded, confusing Naruto even more.
"What do you mean, 'kind of'?" he asked.
"This village, Tanzaku… I know it… my parents and I used to come here every once in a while to spend time with each other…" she explained, looking a little nervous. "There's a chance someone might tell someone from Konoha that they saw me here."
"I get what you're saying but," Naruto grinned, "we're just gonna go in and get some things real quick, and get out, aren't we? I mean, it's not like we're gonna stay here for days, so don't worry about it." He finished putting his arm around her shoulders, a smile on his face.
"Let's hurry up, if you really don't want to stay here for too long, Sakura, we need to go in and get out quick." Said Shadow. Naruto and Sakura looked over at him and saw he had done a small Henge to make himself look like an average dog.
"Oh, yea, that reminds me." Naruto put his hands together, in another hand sign Sakura didn't recognize, and a second later he was surrounded by smoke. When it cleared, Sakura saw he had changed his appearance a little. His normal ears were gone and human ones were at the side of his head. His fangs and claws had also disappeared. He looked like a normal human.
"Did I do it right?" He asked and got a small nod from shadow. "Good, let's go." He motioned for Sakura to start going and when she didn't, he started pushing her along. "Come on, go, Sakura." He said as he pushed her.
"Hey!" she yelled. "I can move on my own!"
"So why aren't you?" Asked Naruto.
"Just stop pushing me and I will!" she yelled, trying to make him stop pushing her by digging her heels into the ground. When he stopped, she fell backwards and he moved out of the way, making her fall flat on her ass. "Ow, I'm going to get you for that, you big jackass." She said as she got up, rubbing her sore behind.
Naruto was about to say something when Shadow spoke up. "Come on you two, let's hurry up already and get what we need." He chose his words carefully, for fear of getting hit by Sakura again. 'That mate of his hits hard. I wonder how long Master is going to survive with her around…' he thought as they walked through the village.
Not five minutes passed by when Sakura stopped. "Oh, guys! Let me go in here!" she yelled even though they were right next to her. "I love this place; it's where I bought some of my clothes before." She didn't even wait for a response before she ran inside the store.
Naruto and Shadow looked at each other, Naruto with an amused smile and Shadow sighed. "This should take a while, if what we've heard about girls is correct." Said Shadow. "We should give her a small amount and go get some food while she's shopping."
Naruto nodded. "Yea, I guess we should. Wait here Shadow." He said before he went inside to look for Sakura. When he got inside, he was a little surprised. There were clothes everywhere. He looked around and his eyes started to hurt from all the colors. He shook his head and saw Sakura to the far right side of the store, looking at a pair of white pants.
Sakura held a pair of pants that had a cherry blossom design along the side and was wondering if she should buy them. She looked at the price and saw it was a fairly reasonable amount.
'Hm… should I ask Naruto to get me these...? They don't cost that much, but will I ever get a chance to wear them…?' she asked herself mentally. She was surprised when a pair of arms wrapped around her waist.
"Those would look great on you." Said Naruto from behind her. He felt her relax after he spoke and he let her go. "Sakura, me and Shadow are gonna go and buy some suplies, so I came in here to give you some money for if you finish before us," He reached into a pouch that was on his hip and pulled out some money.
Sakura's jaw dropped. 'Th-that's a lot of money. How did Naruto get that much money?' she asked herself as she watched Naruto take about two fifths of the money and hold it out for her. She looked at it and even though it wasn't all the money, it was still a lot.
"Here, that should be enough, and if it isn't, just ask for more." He smiled and patted the pouch with his right hand. "This bag is still really full." He said and Sakura's eye brows rose in shock.
"You have more money?" she asked and he nodded.
"I told you, me and Shadow make money and hardly ever spend it. Anyway, here, take it." He put the money in her hand and gave her a peck on the lips. "I'm gonna go with Shadow to get some supplies for when we leave, and then we'll come get you so we can go eat somewhere." He said as he walked out of the store, leaving Sakura alone with a huge wad of cash.
Sakura looked down at the money in her hand, and inner Sakura reared her head again. 'Wow! Would you look at all that money! It's enough to buy at least two of everything in here!' she yelled in Sakura's mind and Sakura nodded dumbly.
She snapped out of her little 'damn-that's-a-lot' state when a sales woman came up and asked if she needed help. "No, no, that's alright." She told the woman and went back to looking for what to buy.
-----------Outside with Naruto and Shadow-------
Naruto came out and saw Shadow sitting near a tree, waiting for him. "What do we get first?" he asked, getting up.
"Uh… I dunno, food?" Naruto suggested, shrugging and Shadow sighed.
"Whatever." Said Shadow as they started walking off down the street.
--------Around Three Hours Later--------
"Ahh! Isn't your mate done yet!?" yelled Shadow. He and Naruto had finished getting all the things they'd need for a while a half hour ago, and had come back to wait for Sakura outside of the store.
"I dunno," Naruto shrugged, "we really haven't told her we're back. She might be waiting for us or she might've gone to look for us already."
"Then go in and look for her."
"Why don't you go?"
"Well, for one thing, she's your mate so you should be the one to look after her," started Shadow, "and two, look there." He motioned to the front of a store.
Naruto looked over at the store and read a sign aloud. "No pets allowed." He looked at Shadow. "So? You aren't my pet." He said, smirking.
"Just go, you idiot." Said Shadow, more than a little annoyed.
Naruto smiled. "Yea, yea, alright." He said before walking into the store. Again all the colors made him feel dizzy and it took him a couple seconds to get them refocused. "Too many damn colors…" he said to no one in particular before heading over to one of the sales women. "Hey have you seen a girl with pink hair, green eyes, about this tall," he put his hand to around his mouth, "and beauty beyond compare?" Naruto asked.
"Uh… I think so…" said the confused woman. "I think she's in the changing rooms." She pointed to the back where a rectangular room with a couple of doors could be seen.
"Alright, thanks." Naruto started heading in the direction of the rooms, much to the confusion of the woman. "Don't worry, she's my girlfriend." Naruto told the woman, who still looked like she didn't approve of him going back there. "I'm just gonna tell her something real quick, I'm not some perv, jeez."
He reached the doors and sniffed for a while, searching for her scent. 'There.' he thought, looking at one if the doors on the wall to the left. He went to it and sniffed again, just to make sure and sure enough, it was her scent. He moved his hand to the knob.
Sakura was a happy girl at the moment. She had enough money to buy anything she wanted from the clothing store. She had just taken off a red shirt with a white fox in the back and was going to try on another bra. She pulled off her bra and just when she did, the door opened. The bad thing, she was facing the door.
Naruto opened the door and his eyes widened. There stood Sakura, without a shirt or bra, facing him. He stared at her half naked form with his mouth wide open, and thought, 'Whoa.' Next thing he knew, he was flying through the air and hit the wall behind him.
"Naruto, you idiot! What the hell do you think you're doing!?" yelled Sakura from behind the door of her changing room. She didn't wait for a response before she closed the door, leaving a half conscious Naruto at the base of the wall.
"Ugh…" Naruto groaned as he tried to get up from the floor. "Ow…. That hurt like hell!" he yelled, rubbing his nose, which had some blood coming out of it. Whether it was from seeing Sakura topless, being punched by her, or both, he didn't know. All he knew was that Sakura had a really nice body.
He got up and headed towards her door, ignoring the yells of the sales woman from earlier. "Sakura, are you almost done!?" he yelled. He heard some shuffling and the door opened to reveal a fully clothed Sakura.
"What the hell, Naruto!? Didn't anyone ever tell you to knock first!?" she yelled at him.
"Well, yea but-"
"But what!?"
"Well… I didn't know you'd be… you know, topless." He said, letting the last part come out just above a whisper. "'sides, what's the big deal? We're gonna be mates, so I'm gonna see that stuff eventually, aren't I?" he asked with a smirk.
Sakura blushed a little. "Well… not if you act like an idiot all the time. And I care because this is a store, Naruto. What if someone had seen me?" she asked, hands at her hips and a glare on her face.
"Sakura, it's a female clothing store. I don't think any guy would see you in here besides me. Even the workers are all women." He said, smiling. "Now, are you almost done? I thought you were hungry and wanted to leave quickly."
Sakura's stomach growled when he reminded her of food and she laughed nervously. "Oh yea, well… I can't decide what to take. I mean, we I know I can't buy everything so I've been trying to decide what to take." She moved to let Naruto see the clothes she had in the room and then she saw him smile a bit.
"Ah, Sakura, that's not that much. 'sides, I know a way we can take 'em all." He grinned and Sakura looked at him confused. "You see, a while back, before the incident, I met this old pervert with white hair. We talked and he said he'd teach me some things cause I looked like someone he knew, or something. Anyways, the only thing he really taught me about was seals before he disappeared." He explained. "We can just seal your clothes in a scroll, like my stuff."
"Wait, so why do you carry a pack around?" she asked. 'If he can seal things, what's the point of a pack full of stuff?' she thought.
"The pack is for things like medicine and where I keep the sealing scrolls. I mean, I can't just keep the scrolls in my pockets. What if I get injured and blood spills onto them?" he asked. "They'll all activate and that would be a very odd situation. My pants would, like, blow up or something and it would be very awkward to fight pant less." He laughed at the thought and so did Sakura.
"Okay, I see your point but just so we're sure," she looked him in the eye, "you're sure I can take all of these?" she pointed at the room behind her with her thumb.
Naruto walked into the room and rummaged through what she had. "Hmm… let's see, you got twelve shirts, nine pairs of pants, three sweaters, a hat with a white circle on the top..." he paused and looked at her. "Yea, what the hell's with the circle? I mean I see it on your clothes and keep wondering what it is." He said, not noticing his other hand had picked up one of the panties that were there.
"That," she moved closer and took the hat from him, "is my clan symbol. I'm still a Haruno and I still belong to the clan. This store makes the Haruno's clothing and I like my symbol so I decided to buy some while I can." She said, and that was when she noticed his left hand held one of the panties she was going to buy. "What are you doing?" she asked him.
"Uh… why?"
"Why are you holding those?" she pointed to his left hand and when he looked, he dropped the piece of clothing.
"Oh, crap, I didn't know I was holding it, I swear." He exclaimed, backing away from the pile of clothes. "Anyway, if you wanna buy 'em, buy 'em. I'm telling you we have a way to carry it all, so all you need to do is pay." He looked at her. "You want me to stay here with you, or can I go outside and count on you coming out in under half an hour?" he joked.
"Yeah, okay, just get out you idiot." She said, smiling as pushed him out of the room and returned inside to get her clothes.
Naruto walked back outside and saw Shadow lying on his back with his tongue sticking put a little. "What are you doing Shadow?" he asked and got no response. "Uh… Shadow?" he asked again.
"Shut up, can't you see I'm dead?" whispered Shadow and Naruto raised an eye brow.
"What?"
"Your mate's taking so long I died already." Shadow smiled and when he heard Naruto laughing slightly, he rolled over onto his stomach. "Is she almost done yet?" he asked.
"Yea, she just needs to pay and then we can go eat." Answered Naruto. He sat down next to Shadow and waited.
It was another seven minutes before Sakura came out of the store carrying five bags full of clothes. Naruto shoved Shadow, who had decided to take a small nap around four minutes ago. "Wake up, she's out." He said as he stood up.
Shadow yawned and sat up. "Ugh… finally." He said before walking over to the other two. "Now where do we go?" he asked, still a little groggy.
"Duh, to eat." Said Naruto as Sakura handed him all of her bags. "Hey, why do I have to carry 'em?" he asked.
"You don't have to if you hurry up and seal them already." She said. She had never really seen anyone use sealing scrolls up close and was curious as to how it worked. Naruto dropped all the bags on the ground and Sakura glared at him. "What the hell did you drop them for?" she asked.
Naruto just smiled. "I need to look for the seals and I can't do that if my hands are full." He pulled his pack off his back and looked through it, and after a couple of seconds, he pulled out some pieces of paper. "Here, now, you need to separate your stuff into groups. You know, like, shirts, pants, underwear, and any other stuff." He said.
"It's all already separated." Said Sakura and she grabbed two of the bags. "These two are shirts," she grabbed another one, "this is pants and shorts," she pointed at another, "that's my… well my under-uh, garments," her cheeks were a little red since Shadow was there, "and this one's two pairs of ninja boots and some of my favorite shampoo I found."
Naruto put four scrolls on the ground under the bags. "Normally I wouldn't seal the bags but unless you wanna dump all your stuff on the ground over the scrolls, I'll just seal 'em with the bags and we can take 'em out later." He said before drawing some seals on the pieces of paper. Every time he finished drawing the seals, the bags over the scroll would disappear in a puff of smoke. "There we go." He said after he finished sealing the last bag. He grabbed the scrolls and handed them to Sakura.
Sakura took the scrolls and looked at them. "So all my stuff is in these little pieces of paper?" she asked in awe. Naruto nodded before starting to walk down the street and Sakura followed him. "So… now what do I do with them?" she asked.
"You put them away, duh." said Naruto as he looked around for somewhere to eat.
"Well, I know that much but where?" she asked again, her eye brow twitching a little.
"Um… put 'em in my pack if you want." He said and Sakura nodded. He felt a tug on his back when she stuffed the scrolls in his pack. They kept walking, Naruto looking for somewhere to eat, for another five minutes when, "Yes!" yelled Naruto, scaring Sakura and making Shadow sigh.
"Damn, I was hoping there wasn't going to be one here." Said Shadow as Naruto ran towards a small stand on the side of the road. Shadow followed, shaking his head the whole way.
Sakura stared at Shadow, then Naruto and finally she looked at the stand he was headed for. "A Ramen stand?" she asked no one in particular but Shadow heard her.
"Yea… Master Naruto has a strange obsession with Ramen." Shadow said before sighing. "Every single town we go to, he looks for a Ramen place. If he finds one, we end up staying longer than usual, and if not, we leave after restocking our supplies." Right after he finished, they arrived at the stand and saw Naruto already sitting down in one of the chairs.
"So that's why your mouth tastes a little like Ramen." Said Sakura as she took a seat next to Naruto. Naruto ordered a large Miso Ramen while Sakura ordered a medium shrimp one. "You know," started Sakura while they waited for their orders, "I don't usually eat Ramen, but I'll make an exception since I'm really hungry." She smiled at the look on his face.
Naruto couldn't believe what he was hearing. "An exception cause you're hungry?" he asked in a disbelieving tone. "Sakura, what's wrong with Ramen? It's one of the best things made by humans." He half yelled.
Sakura smiled a little more. "Sorry, Naruto, I just don't like it that much. I mean, I'll eat it occasionally, but I like other things more." She said as the chef put the bowls down in front of them, ignoring what Sakura was saying. Sakura and Naruto picked up some chop sticks and split them.
"Itadakimasu." They both said together before digging into their bowls. Naruto swallowed the noodles he had in his mouth before turning towards Sakura.
"This is pretty good." He said and returned to eating is Ramen, making semi-loud slurping noises. Sakura swallowed the noodles she had in her mouth as well before speaking.
"Yeah, but I think the Ramen in Konoha is a little better." She looked at Naruto. "I remember Ichiraku's won an award a while back. I don't remember if it was for best Ramen in fire country or the five countries." She shrugged and took another mouthful of noodles. "Whatever it won, Mr. Ichiraku was real excited."
Naruto guessed this Mr. Ichiraku was the owner of Ichiraku's. He finished his bowl quickly and ordered a second one while Sakura was still only halfway done. This continued for a while, Naruto eating two bowls in the amount it took Sakura to eat one until they had had their fill. By the end, Naruto had eaten nine bowls and Sakura three. They paid for their food and left.
A little away from the stand they found Shadow lying on the ground and figured he had fallen asleep. This was proven wrong when he rose up as soon as they got close enough. "You two had your fill?" he asked and they nodded. "So now where are we heading?"
"I dunno, let's just wander around, see what else this town has before we leave." Said Naruto. Sakura and Shadow nodded and they started walking down the street. Naruto and Shadow felt like something odd was going to happen, but they both brushed it off as nothing. Though when the ground below them suddenly split in two, they figured they shouldn't have.
Naruto picked Sakura up bridal style and leapt away from the splitting earth while Shadow leapt in the opposite direction. When Naruto looked back to see who, or what, had done that, he saw the face of the one human who had been able to literally beat him to a pulp.
"Looks like we meet again, you face stealing, son impersonating, demon."
To Be Continued……..
AN/ Yea, I know finally I finished. I'm sure you guys got a little; okay more than a little, annoyed I was taking so long, so I apologize for that. It's not my fault though. Blame procrastination! Anyways, There's chapter… uh, what was it? 4? Whatever it is, it's there. And, yes, I know the beginning was a little boring but, I was under pressure and it wasn't coming to me so sorry for that too. I'd like to say one last thing, please review.