My Heart's Lavender Eyes
"Normal speech"
'Thought'
Kyuubi
Other enormous beings
"Disclaimer"
(Lemon) if you skip a lemon, I'll be sure that you don't miss a thing if you do. Cause I understand that some people would rather skip it because they feel that it is inappropriate, but I think that not having a lemon would be unrealistic to a relationship. But what do I know? I write about ninjas flying around blowing stuff up, how realistic is that in comparision?
Oh well, anyways, enjoy the chappie!
I do not own Naruto or any affiliation there being, I am doing this fanfic because I enjoy making this story, not for profit (which I do not get by the way)
Chapter 20
Operation: Amnesia P3
Sasuke sat on the floor, a bit tied up at the moment, but none the less he was quite distraught. Nobody could look at him without some kind of disgust on their face.
Sasuke sat on the floor and felt awful. He didn't know what he did, but it was bad enough that even Sakura must hate him.
"Hmm...we will have to further investigate this, but right now, we have a civil war to prevent." said Tsunade as she picked up a book from the floor.
"This folder I was talking about before is sometimes referred to as the SVB, which stands for single village binjo book." said Tsunade as she pulled out a red book from behind her desk and brought it around for everyone to see.
"Those that have too many high number rankings however, are put in here." said Tsunade as she held up a medium-sized book.
"This is the Bingo book." continued Tsunade as she held it up and smirked.
"This is what happens when ninja are too strong...they end up here." said Tsunade as she opened the book and thumbed through.
"For example...look at this one." said Tsunade with a smile as she turned the book for everyone to see.
It showed a picture of a silver haired ninja with a mask covering half his face, and a leaf ninja head band covering his left eye.
"Oh my god! Kakashi?!" exclaimed Sakura as she turned and stared at her sensei in amazement.
"Also known as the copy-cat ninja of the leaf..." said Naruto as he smiled.
"They are also given a number ranking for danger to the public, 10 being the strongest threat." said Tsunade as pointed at the bottom of the page.
"Kakashi has an 8 right now, meaning -do not mess with-" said Gai with a smile and a thumbs up.
"Hey cool, let me see!" said Naruto as he snatched the book from Tsunade.
"Hey!" said Tsunade as she tried to get it back.
"What? I just wanna see some strong ninja..." said Naruto as he pushed her away.
Suddenly as Naruto was flipping through the pages, he stopped at one and got a grave look on his face.
Tsunade noticed this, and let him have the book. Naruto walked slowly over to Sasuke and held the book in front of him.
"Itachi?" asked Sasuke as he looked at the picture. Sasuke hated his brother for killing his clan, but when Sasuke guessed his name, Naruto cringed and suddenly looked sad.
"Sasuke...this...is you..." said Naruto as Sasuke got a look of realization on his face.
"No...it can't...no..." whispered Sasuke as he looked at his photo. The picture showed Sasuke in blackened garbs, with a large collar to hide the bottom portion of his face.
"You have become what you most hated in order to destroy what you what you hated the most." said Naruto as he closed the book.
"But in reality, even if you did beat Itachi, you would only fill his shoes, so it would be like you never killed him in the first place." finished Naruto as he walked away from him to let him think about it.
'If Sasuke DID lose his memory and this ISN'T just some elaborate scheme..then that means that this is the Sasuke from 3 years ago, and Sasuke should still be on track to becoming a missing nin and betraying us...' thought Naruto as he studied Sasuke's every move.
"I suggest giving him to Ibiki to make sure he isn't just elaborately faking." said Naruto as he continued to thumb through the pages.
Everyone was in a bad mood now that Naruto had said all of those things about Sasuke betraying them, but their moods quickly changed when Naruto stopped thumbing through the book and turned to face everyone.
"Hey!" said Naruto as he suddenly got a smile on his face.
He turned the book around for everyone to see, and showed them a ninja that had his name circled with a warning sign.
"Who's this handsome devil?" asked Naruto humorously as everyone realized that it was his picture.
"Hey! I'm the hidden Leaves Handsome Devil!" argued Lee, but seeing that everyone ignored his argument, he assumed that it must have been a saying or something.
"Danger level of...20?!" exclaimed Neji with disbelief as Naruto scatched the back of his head sheepishly.
"Ha, yeah! One time, I kinda went berserk and took out a large section of a bluff..." said Naruto as he closed the book and gave it back to Tsunade.
"Anyway, this search party has to begin, and it has to begin now." said Tsunade as she pulled out some fresh blank forms.
"I'll do the paper work...But Naruto, Hinata, and Shino, you all have 10 minutes to report back to your respective parents and get back here with your supplies." said Tsunade as she walked up to Sasuke.
"The rest of you are dismissed until I call for your help once more..." said Tsunade as everyone stood there as if waiting for something.
"Oh yeah, nice job everyone...NOW GO...NOW!!" screamed Tsunade as she suddenly changed to impatiently angry.
"Jeez!" exclaimed Gai as he scurried out of the window along with Lee.
Everyone scrambled to get out of the room as fast as they could, she everyone so scared, that even Sasuke was trying to leave.
He was crawling like a catipillar across the floor towards the door because he was tied up.
"Not you!" exclaimed Naruto as Sasuke stopped.
"Oh...oh yeah...sorry..." said Sasuke as he propped himself against the nearest wall.
Now that the excitement was over, Sasuke got a grave look on his face again, then it was followed by sadness.
'Hmmm...Maybe I can convince him this time around...maybe...just maybe...'thought Naruto as his thoughts were interrupted by Tsunade's assistant, who came peeking around the door.
"Tsunade! Is everything alright?" asked Shizune worriedly as she cautiously stood behind the door.
"Yes, but while you're here, I need you to have Sasuke Uchiha brought into Ibiki's to be interrogated for anything he knows, but before you've done that, make sure that Sakura Haruno is alright." said Tsunade as Shizune looked surprised, nodded, then ducked back into the hall.
"He is in there, just as you thought." said Shizune voice from the hall.
"Okay. Thank you." said Ibiki as he walked into the room.
"Your coming with me." said Ibiki matter-of-factly as he grabbed Sasuke and slung him over his shoulder. He then turned around and left the room.
As they left Naruto could have sworn he heard Sasuke talking.
"You know...I can walk..." said Sasuke as his voice grew more and mroe distant.
"..."
"Okay then..." said Tsunade as she sat down at her desk. She reached forward and picked up her name tag. She flipped it over and pushed a button on the underside.
Suddenly all of the windows slammed shut, and bars flew across them along with curtains to block the view.
"Alright you." said Tsunade tiredly and threateningly.
Naruto was the only one left in the room aside from herself, and Naruto was looking kind of anxious.
"What?" asked Naruto casually.
"You know damn well what!" shouted Tsunade.
"What?!" asked Naruto with a slightly scared face.
"Why are you wearing that hat?!" asked Tsunade as she pointed to his head.
"Oh that? I just thought that I'd try a new style, you know?" said Naruto as he adjusted his hat.
"Naruto...you're a terrible liar..." said Tsunade as she got up from her desk and quickly banked around it to grab Naruto.
Naruto didn't know what to do, and his only reaction was to grab her hands. But Tsunade's hands were already on his hat.
"Naruto...let me see the hat." said Tsunade as she tried to pull it off.
"No!" shouted Naruto he held on tight.
"What are you hiding under here?!" shouted Tsunade as she tried to pry it from his hair.
"N-nothing!" shouted Naruto back as he held on for dear life.
"Naruto, you went on this mission without a hat on, and you came back wearing one, and you are obviously hiding something!" shouted Tsunade as she backed him into a corner.
"No I'm not!" shouted Naruto as he felt Tsunade step on his foot to keep him from moving.
"Naruto!" shouted Tsunade as she almost got her hand underneath the edge of the hat.
"NO!" screamed Naruto as he released a large wave of chakra.
Tsunade was flown back and slammed into the wall. She was fine, and looked a little taken aback, but she saw the scared look on his face and decided she needed to reason with him instead of force.
"(sigh) Naruto..." said Tsunade as she got out of the wall, and sat down in her desk.
"You were the team leader for this mission, YOU are the one who has to give me a full report, and I get one from each leader aside from you as well, so whatever you're hiding is going to be told to me anyways, so it might as well be you who tells me." said Tsunade as she put her elbows on the desk and rested her chin on her hands patiently.
Naruto looked surprised at first, but then had a sad look on his face. It was a sad, yet grave look, and it told Tsunade that this was not going to be good. Naruto slowly reached up to his head, and quickly pulled off the hat as though his hair were fire.
(Boing!)
When Naruto took off his hat, his two large fox ears stuck straight up through his hair.
At first Tsunade didn't say anything, but then she got a relieved look on her face.
"Ha! Is that all? Naruto, just because you are wearing fake fox ears doesn't mean that you are in trouble!" laughed Tsunade as she suddenly felt happier.
"Where did you get such a thing? A party store?" asked Tsunade as she smiled at him.
Naruto looked very taken aback, then very irritated.
"Grrrr...They aren't fake..." said Naruto with a sad face again.
Tsunade looked worried for a second but then chuckled a bit.
"Naruto! Enough joking around! Now, you have to start giving me that report you owe me." said Tsunade as she awaited him expectantly.
"(sigh)" sighed Naruto as he walked slowly over to her desk.
He then leaned his head forward and over the desk.
"Feel them." said Naruto as Tsunade gave him a confused look.
--
Hinata was walking with Shino to her house, and they were talking about what to bring.
"I always bring extra clothes, just in case." said Shino as they continued to walk.
"Me too, but I can never decide which kunai I want to bring because..." said Hinata who stopped talking as a shadow crossed over her own.
"F-father?!" asked Hinata incredulously as she bowed along with Shino.
"Good to see you Mr. Hyuuga." said Shino formally.
"As always..." said Hiashi.
"Hinata, how was your mission?" asked Hiashi.
"It w-was a complete s-success." said Hinata who awaited her father's approval.
"Very good, do you know your next mission?" asked Hiashi.
"In about 6 minutes." said Shino.
"Six minutes?" asked Hiashi incredulously.
"Very well, report to me once you complete it." said Hiashi as he turned to walk away.
"We can't skip your training Hinata, we don't want you to get worse then you already are..." said Hiashi as he walked into the Hyuuga compound, leaving Hinata's spirit crushed from his comment.
"Never mind what he says, he's just a big..." said Shino as he was cut off by a loud scream coming from the direction of the Hokage's office.
"OH MY FREAKING GOD!! NARUTO!! WHAT THE HELL!?" screamed Tsunade as her voice echoed against the Hokage Monument.
"We had better hurry, it sounds as though Naruto will need us to back him up, I am already ready to leave so please hurry up." said Shino.
Hinata nodded and rushed inside her home, the Hyuuga Mansion.
She ran through the main hallway and through the kitchen, but stopped when she heard a cold voice.
"Where are you going to in such a hurry? Running from another one of your mistakes?" said Hanabi meanly as she gave her older sister a sneering look.
Because Hinata is the eldest Hyuuga in the main branch family, she became the next in line to become head of the Hyuuga clan. And because Hanabi was born after her, she could never be Hyuuga Head like she always wanted. and because of this, she has always hated Hinata, and has been mean to her every chance she gets. She has been all high and mighty ever since Hinata lost a battle to her in front of the Hyuuga elders, and she considers herself superior.
"You know, father is considering putting me in your place as next to lead." said Hanabi with a mean smirk.
Hinata gasped then suddenly looked really distressed.
"H-he...he is?" asked Hinata worriedly. She had always wanted to be the Hyuuga head, so that she could change the ways of the Hyuuga. She wanted to get rid of the cursed caged bird seal that all of the Hyuuga branch members wore upon their forehead's. And now that she heard this, she suddenly felt worried.
"Yep! If you slip up one more time, that's it for you." said Hanabi with an evil smile.
Hinata could have sat there all day to wonder if her father would really do that, but she had a task to accomplish.
'Naruto is in trouble, just forget everything she said, and ignore anything she says after...' thought Hinata as she quickly affirmed herself.
"Oh really, that's nice..." mumbled Hinata quickly as she ran out of the room, and into her the hall.
"I'm s-sorry that I can't stay and chat, but I have a job to do." said Hinata quickly as she left a speechless Hanabi sitting in her chair with her mouth agape.
'Did, did she just brush me off...like NOTHING?!' thought Hanabi as she watched her older sister run into her bedroom, then quckly run out again with a bag in tow.
"See you later Hanabi." said Hinata nicely as she ran out.
She couldn't concentrate on anything but her task at hand, she had to help Naruto, and to her, this was of utmost importance.
"You ready?" asked Shino.
Hinata nodded and they started to make their way towards the Hokage's office.
--
"Naruto! What the hell did you do!?" asked Tsunade as she sat in her chair, staring at Naruto's ears.
"It's not me you should be asking...here, let me get him..." said Naruto as he closed his eyes.
'Kyuubi, I'm going to give you control over my voice temporarily so that you can explain to Tsunade what happened.' said Naruto to Kyuubi who looked slighty amused.
"Fine. But afterwards, you listen to everything I have to tell you, and you will do it without saying that I'm trying to make a personal gain..."said Kyuubi as he restlessly roamed around his cage.
'(sigh) fine, it's a deal.' said Naruto as he gave Kyuubi control.
"Naruto? Get who?" asked Tsunade as Naruto just sat there with his eyes closed.
Suddenly Naruto opened his eyes, and they were an evil glowing red.
"Hello...Granddaughter of the Shodamine." said Kyuubi in his deep deceitful voice.
"K-Kyuubi!?" exclaimed Tsunade as she jumped up from behind her desk and landed right in front of him in a crane Taijutsu stance.
"Now now, lets be rational beings about this." said Kyuubi in a drawling sarcastic voice.
"Like hell!" shouted Tsunade as she jumped at him with a chakra infused punch.
Naruto caught her fist and stopped it with only one finger, then put his thumb underneath that finger and flicked her away.
She flew back and skidded across the floor until she slammed into her desk which stopped her.
"Naruto is only letting me do this so that I can tell you what happened, and how he got this way..." said Kyuubi with a smile.
Tsunade didn't know what to believe, but didn't have the time to think about it.
Suddenly Kyuubi closed the space between them in a movement so quick that even she couldn't follow it.
"I gave him, all of my power..." said Kyuubi dramatically.
"Wha...what?!" exclaimed Tsunade.
"You heard me...ALL of it." continued the Kyuubi as he crossed his arms and closed his eyes to begin the tale.
"To put it as short as possible, we ran into Orochimaru, and had to face him head on, but Naruto got caught in one of Orochimaru's seals, and at that point I only had two choices, one, to do nothing and let Orochimaru take all of my powers, or two, to give Naruto all of my powers." said Kyuubi as he opened his eyes.
Tsunade just sat there with a blank expression on her face, she looked as though she had been shot, but didn't want to scream.
"Along with my chakra, Naruto can also call on my heightened sense or sight, hearing, smelling, and my tails...depending on how much chakra he brings forth." said Kyuubi.
"Wait, so you're saying that you GAVE Naruto all of your powers?..." asked Tsunade suspiciously.
"Yes, I had no choice, and besides, of all of the people in this world to give my powers to, I would choose Naruto every time." said Kyuubi with a smile.
Before Tsunade could say anything else, he cut her off.
"And by the way, before I return to the recesses of Naruto's mind, I would just like to warn you that an old friend of mine is in town, and with her here, that would make 4 jinkurichis in this village by the end of this month, guaranteed." said Kyuubi with a smile as Naruto's eyes turned back to blue, and Naruto shook his head to get back to normal.
"Wait Kyuubi! What do you mean an old friend, and how do you know that there will be 4?" asked Naruto, but got no response.
"Damn it." said Naruto as Tsunade stared at him with interest.
"..."
Tsunade continued to stare at him and the silence was becoming uncomfortable.
"..."
"No, you can't pet me..." said Naruto as he crossed his arms.
"Wha...No! I was just thinking, if you have ALL of the Kyuubi's powers...then that means that you could use them to fight for us...we would actually have the Kyuubi no Yoko's powers on our side..." said Tsunade as she sat, still staring at Naruto like he was some kind of trophy.
"HEY! I'm not just some kind of weapon you know...and besides, as far as I know, my body can only take up to 4/9ths of the Kyuubi's power without hurting itself." said Naruto.
"Oh...well still! This is a happy day! But...happy or not, we still have a missing nin on our hands..." said Tsunade as she suddenly got serious.
"Right, we have to find Kiba immediately..." said Naruto as he sat down to contemplate where he could have gone.
Just then, Hinata and Shino came bursting through the door rambling so many things that it was almost incoherent.
"Wait don't! It's not his fault! I'm sorry we're late!" rambled Shino quickly as Hinata did the same.
"Don't hit him! He's innocent! Orochimaru! Seal not his fault! Forgive him if you have accused!" rambled Hinata quickly at the same time Shino did.
Tsunade only caught about half of all that, be she understood what they were trying to do.
"It's alright! He's not in trouble, and he's explained everything. It's all water under the bridge..." said Tsunade as she took out a bottle of Sak'e.
"Yeah, until there's a tidal wave..." mumbled Naruto.
"Ignoring that, you still need to find Kiba, you are to first search where you last saw him, and then track from there." said Tsunade.
"You are dismissed." said Tsunade.
Naruto, Hinata, and Shino turned to leave but stopped when they heard her voice again.
"But Naruto..." started Tsunade.
"Yeah?..." asked Naruto as he turned to face her.
"Try to keep yourself concealed, the public isn't ready for what you really are..." said Tsunade sadly.
"I understand..." said Naruto as he turned back to his new teammates.
"Alright you guys, let's go." said Naruto as they ran out the door.
"Right." said Shino.
"O-okay..." said Hinata.
They rushed out of the Hokage's office, and back to the Village gate to check out.
'I hope they'll be alright...' thought Tsunade as she sat down at her desk to begin the paperwork.
"Hey Izumo! Hey Kotetsu!" said Naruto as he smiled and waved as they ran up to them.
"Hey Naruto!" said Izumo happily.
"Hey Naruto...nice hat." said Kotetsu, who noticed Naruto's new hear gear.
"Oh yeah, thanks! Just thought I'd try something new." said Naruto with a smile.
"So, you got business here?" asked Izumo.
"Yeah, cause...remember last time you were playin cards with us, and Tsunade caught us while we were supposed to be on duty?" asked Kotetsu.
"What, Tsunade? She just told me to leave you two alone, and let you guys get back to work..." said Naruto who looked confused.
"Yeah, that was before you left." said Izumo as he put his hand on his head.
"Yeah after you left, it all went downhill from there." said Kotetsu.
"And we're still trying to fix that wall..." said Izumo as he pointed behind him to a broken-in wall.
"Wow...sorry guys, I didn't know she would be so mad..." said Naruto apologetically.
"Ah, it's alright, you couldn't have known that she would be such a bitch about it..." said Kotetsu.
"Yeah, we like hangin with you and all, but when we do, it will have to be when we're off duty." said Izumo.
"Right, okay then, but we DO have a mission." said Naruto.
"Alright, just give me a sec..." said Kotetsu as he rummaged through a file cabinet.
"Hmmm...Yep! Here you are! Shino Aburame, Naruto Uzumaki, and Hinata Hyuuga, retrieval mission" said Kotetsu as he handed them their pass.
"Alright you three, see you when your mission is a success." said Izumo with a smile. He waved to the three ninja as they jumped out of sight into the nearest trees.
"..."
"What?" asked Izumo.
"Huh? Nu-nothin..." said Koketsu frantically as he pretended to be busy with some random paperwork on his desk.
"Oh! It's somethin! You always have feelings bout things, and they're always right!" exclaimed Izumo.
"Yeah..." mumbled Kotetsu.
"So? What did you feel was wrong?" asked Izumo nervously.
"I feel...as though Naruto's mission will be alot longer than he anticipates..." said Kotetsu dramatically as Izumo put his hand on his head in frustration.
"You know, one thing about your feelings aside from them always being right, is that they are always too late..." said Izumo as he stared off in the direction Naruto and his teammates took off in.
"Yeah...I hope Naruto will be all right..." said Kotetsu.
"Yeah...me too..." agreed Tsunade.
"Tsunade!? Wha...When did you get here?!" asked Izumo nervously.
"Oh...you know...just in time for the comment..." said Tsunade.
"What com..." started Koketsu.
"A BITCH AM I?!" screamed Tsunade angrily as she chased them to the back corner of their office.
--
"Hmmm...I wonder how it will take before we get back to the village to check back in..." said Naruto as they jumped from tree to tree.
"Hmm... I don't know." said Shino.
"Well, when we do, I'll have to remember to tell those guys I'm sorry again, Tsunade can be really mean." said Naruto as he suddenly heard a series of loud screams.
"Aaaahhhh!!"
"Oh my god!!"
"You ruptured my spleen!"
"My back!!"
They stopped and listened for more but heard nothing else.
"..."
"Do you think they're..."
"Ahh my spleen!"
"..."
"Do you think..."
"Spleen!!"
"..."
"Do you..."
"My back!!"
"..."
"Do."
"Spllleeeeeeeeeennnnnnnaaaaaaaa..."
"..."
"You know what, I stopped caring." said Naruto as he jumped to the next branch.
"B-but N-Naruto..." argued Hinata.
"Don't worry, they are IN our village, if they couldn't get medical treatment IN our village immediately...that would be pretty sad..." said Naruto.
"Naruto is right, we should continue." said Shino.
"Y-yeah...I g-guess your right..." said Hinata as they continued again.
They traveled for about an hour without any interruptions until they finally reached the spot where they last saw Kiba.
"(sigh)okay, we'll start by combing the area." said Naruto.
"That's right...Allow me." said Shino.
Shino then lifted up his arms, and millions upon millions of insects flew out of his sleeves and went in every direction.
"Hinata, double check." said Shino.
"R-Right." said Hinata as she focused her chakra to her eyes.
"Byakugan!" said Hinata as she activated her family's doujutsu.
Hinata used it to look everywhere in a 50 meter radius within 359 degrees.
'Time to show Naruto what I can do!' thought Hinata as she noticed Naruto staring at her.
'That jutsu...it looks...good...it looks comfortable...it looks...' thought Naruto.
"So natural to me..." mumbled Naruto, but they didn't notice that he said anything.
"They went"
"I don't see anyone, and there are no tracks..." said Hinata.
"I haven't found anything either..." said Shino as they both made their way to the center of the clearing.
"(sigh) we need Kiba, with him, we can find anything, or anyone if we have an idea of where they were last seen." said Shino sadly.
"(sigh) yeah..." said Hinata sadly as well.
"We will never find out where he went without Kiba's skills..." said Shino as Hinata gasped and stared at the ground shamefully as though it was her fault.
"Hinata, you did your best, so don't blame yourself...and besides, he went north..." said Naruto as he pointed to his left.
"How...how do you know?" asked Shino curiously.
"Because, I can smell the scent of Akamaru, which is much stronger then Kiba's...but then again...not much different." said Naruto humorously.
"W-wow! Th-that's amazing N-Naruto!..." exclaimed Hinata with amazement.
"Where EXACTLY did they go Naruto?" asked Shino almost excitedly.
"Well, it looks as though Kiba walked around randomly, then he suddenly shot up into the air and was carried off into the trees facing north..." said Naruto as he jumped up into a tree Kiba went through.
"Come on, it looks as though he was carried quite a ways, I can't tell how far, but I can tell that it is at least more than a mile..." said Naruto as Hinata and Shino nodded and jumped into the tree after him.
"Let's get started, we have no ides how far he's gone, so its best that we get going as soon as possible."said Naruto as they began to travel north in Kiba 's direction.
--
It had been a couple of hours now, and Naruto was starting to get agitated, Hinata would remain quiet and confident in Naruto's decisions, but Shino would constantly ask him if he was sure that he went this way.
Shino had at least asked him 8 times now, and Naruto was close to snapping.
'I've got Kiba's scent and trail, I know exactly where his trail is.' thought Naruto as he looked over at Hinata.
Hinata noticed that he was looking at her, so she blushed and gave him a reassuring smile.
'(happy sigh) At least Hinata has confidence in me, her smile is reassuring...and...very cute...' thought Naruto as he shook his head to clear his thoughts.
'But Mr. annoying bug-boy over here can't seem to shut up...' thought Naruto as he continued to jump along the branches.
"Naruto..." said Shino.
"Oh Jesus Christ..." mumbled Naruto as he put his hand on his head in frustration.
"Naruto I was wondering..." continued Shino.
"Oh my fucking lord kill me now..." mumbled Naruto as he dug his fingers into his forehead.
"Sh-Shino I-I th-think you should s-stop pestering N-Naruto, h-he is doing fine." insisted Hinata.
"..."
'If he says one more thing...' thought Naruto as he clenched his fists.
"..."
"I know...but..." started Shino.
"I swear to god Shino, I will freaking stab you!" shouted Naruto as he held tightly onto his head.
"Fine, I just wanted to know how Sakura was doing...you know it is kind of awkward not talking..." said Shino as he kept calm and faced forward as they continued to jump through the trees.
"Oh! I'm sorry Shino! It's just that you got on my nerves, because you kept questioning my abilities every few minutes..." said Naruto apologetically.
"It's alright, I understand..." said Shino which started another awkward silence.
"S-so N-Naruto...H-how is Sakura?" asked Hinata nervously as though she were scared she would say something that would agitate him.
"Oh...She is really confused right now, she doesn't know what, or more specifically, WHO she wants...with Sasuke being back and all..." said Naruto as Shino nodded in understanding.
"So Naruto...I know that this is kind of personal...but I was wondering where you stood on all of this..." said Shino as though what he was saying was embarrassing.
"Wha...what do you mean?" asked Naruto.
"I mean...do you have a significant other in mind?" asked Shino.
"Wait...what?" asked Naruto.
"I don't get what you mean..." said Naruto with a confused look on his face as he scratched his head.
Hinata's face turned completely red and she tried as hard as she could to try to talk.
"I-I-I th-th-think he m-means, do you know...d-do y-you know W-WHO you w-want in l-life." stuttered Hinata very nervously.
"Oh." said Naruto as he stopped to think.
'Oh god...is he going to say Sakura? I would just die! But what if he says me?! Oh God! Naruto always says what is on his mind! What if he says me? What if he says me?!' thought Hinata nervously as she twitched her finger back and forth extremely quick and studied Naruto like a hawk.
"I've never really put much thought into it, I haven't had time in between training, and...well...sleeping..." said Naruto as he racked his brain for someone he had in mind, but came up short.
"Well, why don't you just list off all of the characteristics of your perfect girl, that way you could just choose based on who it sounds like the most." said Shino.
"Good idea..." said Naruto as he put his thoughts together.
'P-p-perfect g-girl?...I'm going to memorize every word he is about to say...' thought Hinata as she clenched her fists in determination and anxiety.
"Well...She would be kind..." said Naruto.
'I'm kind...' thought Hinata excitedly.
"Nice, thoughtful, with a good heart..." continued Naruto.
'I'm nice, thoughtful, and I have a good heart...' thought Hinata even more excitedly as she felt her face flush.
"She would be cute, and pretty, and a ninja..." said Naruto as he continued to think.
'I don't know about pretty, but everyone is always saying that I'm cute...and I'm a ninja!' thought Hinata as she excitedly went over the requirements she would have to pass to become more to Naruto than just a friend.
"She would have to be smart to make up for my occasional idiocy..." said Naruto as he scratched his chin.
"I know that I'm smart..." thought Hinata as she twiddled her fingers.
"Aside from all that, all she would need to do is love me as much as I love her." said Naruto as he looked at Shino and he nodded in return.
"You know...you just perfectly described someone I know..." said Shino hintingly.
"What really?! Who? Are they a girl?" asked Naruto.
"Yes...and you described her perfectly...down to the very last dot...its actually kind of eery...how perfectly you did..." said Shino.
'Who does he know that's all of that?...' thought Hinata as she waited nervously for Shino to say who it was.
'Wait, if Shino says anybody but me, than it would be leading Naruto away!' thought Hinata as she suddenly stressed out.
"Well?! Don't keep me waiting! Who is she?" asked Naruto anxiously.
"She is kind, nice, cute, thoughtful, smart, pretty, has a good heart, and is a ninja." said Shino as he smirked underneath his cloak's collar.
"For God's sake Shino, I'm dying here!" exclaimed Naruto as he stared at him in suspense.
"You know what...I think I'll tell you later..." said Shino with an even bigger smirk.
"Uh?! Shino! Not nice!!" exclaimed Naruto as he pouted.
"You've got the suspense all built up, I can't wait anymore!" begged Naruto.
"I have a reason to wait, trust me..." said Shino as Naruto continued to pout.
'Hehehe... he's so cute when he pouts...' thought Hinata as she blushed.
They still continued to jump through the trees, following Kiba's trail, and it had already been 9 hours all together. They were still going at the same pace, but Hinata and Shino were showing signs of exhaustion.
"(pant)(pant) Naruto...we...need to rest..." said Shino as he dropped down from the trees and landed in a small clearing, completely exhausted.
"(pant)(pant) Y-yeah N-Naruto...M-m-me too..." gasped Hinata as she followed him down to the ground.
As his teamates rested, Naruto decided to set up a small fire for them, but by the time he was done, he looked north and realized something.
"I don't think that we are in the land of fire anymore..." said Naruto as Shino and Hinata looked up at him in surprise.
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