So here you go, the second chapter.
Sorry for taking so long...writers block is all I can say.
Disclaimer: I do not, and never will, own Naruto or any of its including characters. (if this were the case, I would've killed Sasugay long ago)
Chapter 2
Naruto walked through the streets of Suna, enjoying his day off. It had been 3 days since he started teaching. He decided to go to the weapon shop, seeing as how he had used up his explosion tags.
When he reached the weapon shop, he started searching for the tags. As he shifted through all the articles, he heard the voice of a girl say: 'Listen, you idiot, I am here on order of the Kazekage himself. I have the money to pay you, I showed you the order, now give me the damn thing!'
The blonde shinobi looked at the corner, and saw Temari, arguing with someone Naruto guessed to be the shop owner.
"I've already told you miss, we are not allowed to sell any weapon without being absolute sure that -" whatever he was going to say was lost when Temari swore, and she walked out of the store.
Without thinking, he followed her onto the streets.
"Hey Temari, wait up!" Naruto said, catching up her.
"What is it, Naruto?" came his rather harsh reply. Obviously, the sand kunoichi wasn't in the best of moods.
'What was that just now?' the leaf shinobi asked.
The scowl on the Sand kunoichi's forehead deepened, and she replied: 'He refused to sell me a bunch of training stuff for the new Genin, because he said I looked emotionally unstable, and appearently, by order of the kazekage, it is prohibited to sell weapons to people who look emotionally unstable.'
'So...How about I get 'em for you?' Naruto asked out of the blue, while Temari was still calling the shop owner some bad names.
'-And if I meet him again I swear I'll- Sorry naruto, what did you say?' she asked, finishing her rant.
'I asked if I should get those weapons for you?' the blue eyed boy repeated willingly.
'You would?' she asked, then she smiled a tired, obviously fake, smile, and said: 'That would be great. Could you deliver them to my office afterwards, please?'
'Sure thing! I needed to be at that shop anyway...' Naruto replied. The oldest sand sibling handed him the note with what to get from the store, and the money, and walked away.
two hours later.
As she signed one of the many forms lying on her desk, A voice suddenly said.
'That has be one hell of a boring job.' She twirled around, only to see Naruto leaning casually against the doorframe that led to the balcony, several plastic bags standing against the wall. However, there was something new about him: his clothes. Appeartenly, Suna's heat had forced him to forgo his usual orange and black jumpsuit, and his black cloak with flames. Instead, he wore a tight fitting white T-shirt, and a blue pair of trousers most ninja wore. The giant scroll was gone as well. However, Temari was sure he had somehow managed to hide that one somewhere in his konoha vest. The biggest change was the blade that hung at his hip.
'Since when do you use a sword, Naruto?' the blonde asked, momentarily forgetting what she actually wanted to say.
'Oh that. Well, the pervy sage actually tough me how to use a katana, but I never thought I'd need one, as it didn't fit my fighting skill. However, with me learning the flying thundergod jutsu, I though it would make a good combination.' he shrugged.
'I guess so...' Temari said, as she prepared to get back to work.
'Wait, no word of thanks? No "OMG! You are so awesome." You just go back to work?' The blonde asked, adopting a joking tone.
Even though Temari knew he was joking, she glared at him, and said in a somewhat annoyed tone:
'I would have gotten them myself but...' her voice faded away. After several seconds of silence, she asked.
'Say naruto? I don't really look unstable, do I?' the emerald eyed girl asked, almost pleadingly.
Naruto stayed silent for a while
The correct answer was, of course, something along the lines of: "Heck yeah you do! If I owned a store I wouldn't sell you a pair of scissors" But the blonde shinobi figured this wasn't the best time to be honest.
'Well?' Temari's tone started to become dangerously soft, and an itch mark appeared on her forehead.
'N-no, no absolutely not.' the cerulean eyed boy said in a hurry.
However, the lie was a bit too evident in his voice. He only realised his mistake as he noticed the giant fan the kunoichi in front of him was unfolding
several seconds later, a scream sounded through suna.
'NARUTO!'
Gaara's office
Gaara was sitting behind his desk, talking to Kankurou.
'So how is Naruto coming along?' the redhead asked, folding his hands on his desk
'Pretty good. The children actually respect him, and do as he asks. But why don't you ask naruto himself?'
When kazekage didn't reply, Kankurou started to get suspicous.
'There is another reason you asked for Naruto to come here, isn't there?' he asked, raising one of his eyebrows.
Gaara was saved from answering that question by a loud feminine voice that screamed: "NARUTO!"
Kankurou's eyes widened as realisation struck him like lightning.
'You don't mean...' his voice trailed off.
In front of him, his little brother remained calm.
'Do you have any better ideas?' he asked, cocking an eyebrow.
'No. I guess Naruto is the only person who could pull it of.'
The former jinjuuriki nodded 'That is why I asked for Naruto. That man has healed more hearts than he can count, without being a player. And more importantly: he never broke any of them.'
Kankurou merely nodded.
back with Naruto and temari
Naruto tried to sit up, but fell down on his back again, panting. Beside him, Temari did the same.
'just you wait-pant-untill I get up-pant-' the kunoichi said.
'I'd rather not- pant- that would mean that-pant- I would have to run again.' Naruto replied.
'-pant- live with it.-pant-'
Catching his breath, Naruto looked at the girl besides him, that had closed her eyes, enjoying the warmth of the sun, the wind playing with her hair. Yet the remains of great emotional pain were still visible upon her face.
'Say, Temari?'
'Yeah?'
'How about I treat you to Dinner, and you stop trying to kill me?' he asked.
'No. You will suffer. How about you cook, instead of me, and I will consider stop trying to kill you.'
the blond girl asked, still with her eyes closed.
The blue eyed leaf ninja sighted., but figured this was going to be the best offer he was going to get.
'Allright. But we are going home my way.' he said, and out of his pocket, he took a small piece of paper, with black scribbling on it, and gave it to Temari, who had gotten up.
As she took the paper from him, she looked at him questioningly.
'Oh, and closee your eyes. Or you might just get a little dizzy.
The green eyed girl complied. Naruto grabbed her arm, made a few familiar handseals, and muttered: 'Hiraishin no jutsu' there was a flash, and a second later, both were gone.
With another flash, they arrived in the kitchen of the sand siblings, scaring the living daylights of Kankurou, who had been drinking a glass of water.
'Naruto? Temari1? What the F- ' he sputtered when he recognised them
he was cut short by temari who said.: 'It's nothing, I just brought home our new cook.'
and she gestured to Naruto. The boys sweatdropped.
Later, Kankurou met naruto while the latter was chopping vegatables.
'Lemme gues: It was this or getting killed?' he whispered, hoping his sis wouldn't hear.
'Pretty much. But I don't really mind.'
after dinner.
Naruto walked outside. He had told the sand siblings that he would go train for a bit. When he reached the training grounds, he drew his sword, and started practicing.
As his sword weaved through the air, Naruto thought about Suna. Here, were the people didn't know him, he never got the glares that, despite his new hero-statues in konoha, still found his way. Quite the countrary. They considered him a hero. More than once, small boys had asked for his autograph, and when he walked around, a lot of girls started to gigle, only to avert their eyes when he looked.
After two hours of combinating his clones with his flying thundergod jutsu and his sword, he re-sheated his katana, and headed back to his apartment in the Kage tower. When he arrived there, the sky had turned a dark blue, and stars were to be seen. Most of Suna was asleep right now. Naruto climbed the stairs to his apartment, and unlocked it. After carefully putting his weapons away, yet in reach of his arm, he went to sleep.
Gaara.
Gaara was standing on his Balcony, when he heard a movement besides him.
He looked, only to see Kankurou in his Pjs.
'Have you noticed?' Gaara asked.
'Its blissfully quiet tonight.' Kankurou said.
'No longer are there any cries coming from her room.' Gaara said, something that resembled a smile on his face.'
with that, the two shinobi left the roof of the kage tower.
Next day:
'So you send chakra to your feet, and keep it there, and then you step on the water, like this.'
naruto explained. Even though the academy was closed today, he had volunteered to give some extra training to a group of gening that had still trouble with learning how to manipulate their chakra.
The five members of his class tried. They were all wearing their swimming gear, as was Naruto. He had asked Gaara if he could use the waterpool, seeing as how there were few lakes around since it was 6 in the morning, there were no people around yet.
Immediatly, 4 of them fell into the water, while 1 managed to stand on the surface for exactly two seconds, and then fell into it as well.
As they srambled back onto the ground, shaking themselves, konoha's future hokage said; 'Don't worry, we have still an hour before the first guest will arrive. Now let's try again.'
about 45 minutes later, he dismissed the kids, and started to leave when he noticed Gaara, Kankurou and temari and her friends coming towards the pool. Remembereing the cold water, an evil prank started to take form in his head.
Temari P.o.v.
Temari was walking towards the pool, along a group of friends. They had insisted for her to join them to the pool.
'Cheer up, Temari. The weather is hot, and we are going to swim. And we might even see some hot guys.'
'I thought we talked about this...' she sighted. She didn't cry anymore about...about the shadow user, bu she still was sensative to his name, wich would cause her to remember the good and bad times they had-
her train of though was cut of when her best friend, Mai, suddenly shouted. 'Oh look, it's your brothers. Are they going to the pool as well?'
The emerald eyed sand kunoichi shrugged. She knew that her friend had a huge crush on Gaara, and Kankurou was quite popular as well.
'Hey Temari, girls.' Kankurou greeted.
'Are you going to the pool as well, Lord kazekage?' Mai asked, blushing at the though.
'I told you, you don't have to call me that. Just gaara will do fine.'
The lot of them Arrived at the pool, and laid down their stuff. Tentavily, they touched the water, which was cold as Ice. Just as the lot of them were standing at the pool side, there was a loud shout:
'Uzumaki divebomb barrage!' and a certain knuckleheaded blonde ninja, along with his shadow clones, bombed into the cold water, making sure everyone was soaked from head to toe. It ended with gaara and kankurou chasing naruto around the pool.
Temari and her friends were standing at the poolside, and were talking for a bit.
'Who's the blonde?' one of the girls asked.
'Oh that's naruto. He is stationed here in suna temorarily, but he is the future hokage.' Temari stated matter of-factly.
'Hot Damn! He is one good lookin' guy.' another girl said, looking at naruto who just jumped into the pool.
'You said it.'another of her friends replied.
Then, another of her fellow kunoichi said; 'but isn't he, like, the guy that saved our kazekage, and that defeated the akatsuki?'
Temari sighted. She knew it'd come to this.
'Yeah, he is.'
then another girl piped up. 'I believe I read something about him...in a magazine about old clans or something...appearently, he is the heir to the the namikaze clan, as well as the Uzumaki clan, meaning-' the girl was cut short by the friend that had called naruto hot.
'He's filthy rich! Right?' she asked, looking at the the other girlm, who sweatdropped, and nodded.
'Rich, famous, future hokage, smoking hot; this guy is so definatly boyfriend material!' Another girl said, earning nods of agreement from the other girls.
'Wait..What? No, absolutely not. Were talking about konoha's number one knuckleheaded ninja here.' then, suddenly, said knuckleheaded boyfriend material appeared and smirked.
'Shouldn't you be swimming, girls?' and pushed the lot of them into the water.
When Temari resurfaced, she yelled; Naruto! You'll regret that.' and with that, she jumped out of the water, and ran after the blue eyed boy.
The other five girls merely looked, while naruto was being chased by all three of the sand siblings.
'Damn. Seems he is already taken.' one of them said.
'I agree. They sure make a cute couple.' Mai said.
'Just to bad they don't know it yet.'
'no matter. Temari just needs a... push in the right direction.'
'And we'll be glad to give that push, won't we, girls?'
'You bet!'
End of chapter 2.
So...how did you like it? Going to fast? To slow? (referring to the pairing here)
Oh, and reviews are appreciated...Plz?
And I Pre-apollogize for being late with the next chapter...I will be on vacation for several weeks...