A/N: Hello to y'all! First thang first, hope y'all got a happy Eid Adha, a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year... I did alright btw. hahaha... So second thang, yes, this is the fourth chapter y'all been waiting for (... or not?) but anyway, i just want to say that this is indeed the longest I've written so far. I kinda feel proud of it although the content might be quite average, well, not that it matters anyway... So for now, no long blabbering n stuff, i'mma let y'all enjoy now, oh wait, i know this ain't important, but 3000 hits! Doesn't matter if most of it came from ppl who just clicked n read a few lines or something, and even if it's from ppl who actually read it over and over again, now that's even better! uh yeah, anyway, thanks for reading my fic and hope y'all enjoy this chappie, holla!
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Chapter IV- Sudden Date
The next morning in Konoha, Sakura called in sick. She was locking herself in her room, the entire day which worried her mother even more. Although Sakura's mother kept checking on her every now and then, the pink haired girl kept herself locked inside her room.
Word of Sakura calling in sick reached her friends. Ino, Hinata, and Tenten took some of their time to visit her.
As it reached the girls, it also reached Shikamaru's ears and the boys. Not wanting to waste anymore time, Shikamaru headed straight toward the Haruno residence. The ex-Rookie 9 and Gai's Team were all heading to the same place, with two different reasons.
"…Sakura-chan? Ino-chan and your friends are here… Open the door, will you? Please?" Sakura's mother pleaded, three kunoichi stood behind her quietly.
At first there was no response but when she was about to knock once again, the door opened slightly revealing a teary red-eyed Sakura. Her mother was shocked at Sakura's condition; she never thought it would be that bad. At the same time, the other kunoichi could only gasp at the sight.
"I…no… Hi…nata-san… T-Tenten-san…" Sakura said weakly, the girls greeted back.
"Y-yo, Sakura…"
"H-hello, Sakura-san…"
"… Girl, you look like shit…"
Tenten received a glare from Ino while Hinata could only fidget. Sakura just smiled weakly and let her friends in after reassuring her mother that she was fine.
"So, mind to tell us what happened? You calling in sick is just a lie, isn't it?" The weapon mistress asked bluntly.
"Tenten! Can't you think of her feelings before asking such a blunt question? Although I also want to know…" Ino muttered the last part sheepishly.
"A-ano, Sakura-san… A-are you alright?' the Hyuuga heiress asked politely.
"Minna… Don't worry! I'm fine… The truth is… I messed up some jutsu… Ehehehe…" Sakura lied as she slipped her tongue in a joking manner.
"… Are you sure? 'Coz you sure don't seem like a person to fuck up a jutsu to me…" Tenten said unconvinced as she eyed Sakura suspiciously.
"Hontou yo… I'm alright, beside Tenten-san… I'm not perfect too you know… One little distraction and you can mess things up…" Sakura replied and smiled.
"Ohoo, I see… Now that's interesting…" Tenten smirked.
"What do you mean?" Sakura asked oblivious.
"Well duh, what had distracted you? Ah! Masaka… Don't tell me it's a guy?!" Tenten nudged Sakura's rib while hiding her grin with her other hand.
"Nn, it's nothing like that, Tenten-san… Really…" Sakura denied, shaking her head.
"Hn, beside Tenten… If there should be someone to distract Sakura, it must be Sasuke… or maybe Naruto?" Ino pondered, the last part stung Sakura's heart like lightning.
"W-what are you saying, Ino-san?"
Hinata's abrupt reply awoken Sakura from her thoughts, "A-ah… That's right, I-I just got distracted while trying a jutsu… I-I wasn't thinking about those two… At all…" Sakura looked down; her lies began to look too real for her.
Meanwhile outside the Haruno residence, a lone chuunin stood under the cloudy sky, smoking a cigarette as he stared the grey skies.
"Yo, Shikamaru…"
"Kiba… Akamaru…" the boy greeted back with a nod, puffing smokes as he greeted.
"Bark!"
"Where's Shino?"
Kiba replied with a shrug, "I have no idea; we didn't have training this morning… So I guess he either have a mission with his dad or out looking for some bugs…"
"Insects, it'sinsects, Kiba. And as a matter of fact I was indeed looking for some insects…" Shino, who appeared from nowhere said with an insulted tone behind Kiba's back which surprised him.
"W-WHOAA! You scared me, Shino! Can't you greet first then talk like how normal people do?!"
"… I thought it won't be necessary seeing how your sense of smell is higher than the average human's?" Shino replied, positioning his shades.
"… Right, we'll have these 'sense-of-smell talk' later, guys… Here comes Neji, Lee and Chouji…"
"Hello everyone! Such a youthful morning, although the clouds are kind of ruining it… But it doesn't matter because we should run 500 laps around Konoha to burn our youthful body, my youthful compa-…" Lee said energetically but got cut off by his 'youthful' rival, Neji.
"Shut up, Lee… Have you already forgotten why we're here? Zip it already… And Shikamaru, how are we going to proceed?"
"Oi, oi Neji… This isn't some kind of a mission alright? Chill… We'll just enter through the front door like normal people do, then…" Kiba stopped when Shikamaru cut him off.
"No, Kiba… As a matter of fact we ARE going to proceed carefully. Now listen to my super-kick-ass-fabulous-and-one-of-a-kind plan and you guys' better listen well because it's going to be troublesome to repeat it all over again…"
"… Right…" Kiba rolled his eyes but Shikamaru just ignored him.
"Okay, so as usual I want Neji to guard the rear, Kiba you take the front… Then I'll have Shino after Kiba so that he can back Kiba up with his bugs… Okay, Shino, Insects…Jeez" Shikamaru corrected himself after Shino glared at him behind his shades, and then he continued, "So like I was saying, Shino will be after Kiba and Lee right after Shino. I'll be behind Lee and Chouji will be behind me. Understand so far?"
Everyone nodded except Neji, "Shikamaru… You do notice that it's only Sakura-san's house right? Furthermore, we are most likely going to enter her room… right?" The Hyuuga prodigy said as-a-matter-of-factly in a questioning manner.
Shikamaru growled then retorted, "Yeah of course, it's all just for precaution Neji… Who knows, there might be ANBU guarding her or something… I didn't become chuunin first and before all of you for nothing you know? Beside weren't you the one who asked me how to proceed in the first place?"
Neji stayed silent but cursed Shikamaru under his breath, but Shikamaru ignored him and continued, "Well then! Let's proceed this way; Kiba, with your sense of smell, distinguish who are inside, most probably if my guess is right, there should only be her mother, Ino, Hinata and Tenten, but we can never be too careful…" Kiba nodded but asked something.
"But how do you know there are Ino, Hinata, and Tenten inside?" Shikamaru just replied casually, "Because I saw them going inside a few minutes ago… Then, Shino and Lee… Do nothing unless I tell you to…" Lee and Shino nodded.
"Chouji… Well, just do whatever you always do…" Chouji nodded and opened a bag of chips and began eating them.
Shikamaru then pointed at Neji, "And you, Neji… I want you to activate your byakugan right now and set a perimeter of 1 mile, I don't want anyone to butt in…"
Neji closed his eyes for a second before activating his bloodline ability, "Byakugan!"
After a few moments, Neji deactivated it and reported to Shikamaru, "It's safe". Shikamaru nodded and spoke again.
"Alright, so this is how it's going to be, we'll divide it in two possible scenarios. First, if all the people that Kiba sniffed are those that I think they are, I'll enter first followed by you guys. However, if even one of the people that Kiba sniffed is a stranger who may have disguised him or herself, stay in position and I'll try to come up with something. Understood?"
Upon seeing Shikamaru's serious face, everyone nodded with determination which earned a smile from the strategist genius. However, sometime the inside doesn't sync with the outside.
"Shikamaru really need to lay low with his skills…We're only here for a small talk for fuck sake…" Neji thought as they proceeded.
"… Got to make a mental note to hang out less with Shikamaru… He's too obsessed with his strategic ability…Not that it's a really bad thing, but still…" Shino thought as he passed Neji.
"Man, every time Shikamaru lays down his strategy, I think it's on par with Sasuke's angsty speech!" Kiba thought and mentally snickered.
"Man… I want to eat some yakiniku…"Chouji thought as he looked up to the sky solemnly.
Shikamaru shivered for a moment and turned to look at his companions, realizing everything was the same he decided to ignore his feelings and said, "Well then, let's go…"
In Sunagakure, Jiraiya was awoken rather rudely, he cursed to whoever dared to wake him up when he was having such a 'nice' dream. But then the view of Naruto holding an empty vase set the toad master to a better mood. He knew that he had already promised to teach Naruto, so he can't really get mad at him.
Jiraiya groaned and said, "Come on, Naruto… At least let me sleep some more? Last night I had some information gathering for err, the ANBU… Yeah that's right…" He grinned sheepishly.
Naruto slapped his forehead and groaned in return, "Ero-sennin…! I already know that 90 of your 'information gathering' is for your dirty novels. And no you can't sleep some more coz it's already noon damn it! WHEN THE HELL are we going to start my training, you dirty pervert?!"
"Ah yeah, about that… Umm, well no need to rush it, Naruto… I mean, you know…" Jiraiya grinned but Naruto just grunted until Temari opened the door abruptly.
"Excuse me, is everything alright? I heard some screaming and…" Temari's head popped in and tried her hard not to look at Naruto.
"Ah iie, iie, sorry Temari-san… It's nothing, don't worry…" Naruto replied, rubbing the back of his head and smiled sheepishly.
"I-is that so? A-Alright then, excuse me…" with a soft thud, Temari disappeared from their view; Jiraiya just stared at the now closed door and then looked at Naruto.
"Mm? What is it now, Ero-sennin?!" Naruto raised a suspicious eyebrow at his sensei, who just smiled cheekily.
"Mm, nothing… Well, what are we waiting for then? Let's make you a sennin, shall we?"
"It's about time!" Naruto grinned widely and raised his fist shoulder length to add his excitement.
At another part of the building; Temari was lying on her bed, closing her eyes with one of her arms; she just came back from Suna's VIP rooms. She unconsciously said out loud what was on her mind.
"Haaaa… Why do I always feel so uneasy around him? It never happened before… I mean sure the guy has changed a lot since last time we've met, but then… I don't know… It's not like he has changed that much now, has he?"
She moved sideways and stayed silent for a while, until someone knocked on her door. She sat on her bed and answered the knocks. "Yes?"
"Yo, Temari-chan…" Kankurou's head popped in, Temari just raised an eyebrow at her brother.
"What is it, Kankurou-niisan?" she asked inquiringly.
"Nothing much… It's just that… I noticed you weren't your usual self last night… Something wrong? Oh, and I told you that you don't have to call me nii-san, didn't I?" the puppet master asked back, the door opened wider, revealing his entire body.
"Ah, yeah… Sorry, you know habits…" Temari looked up, sighed and then stayed silent for a second before replying, "Mm, I actually don't know myself what's wrong with me…"
"Is there, maybe… Someone who's bugging you? If there is, I'll gladly bust a cap on his mo-fo ass, imotou…" the cat-man said, his fist rose firmly.
Temari giggled and said, "Nah, nothing like that Kankurou-nii, I'm fine thanks… By the way, don't you have something else to do?"
Kankurou groaned and replied, "Yeah I sure do, some freaking paper works… It sucks ass to be an administrative jonin… You can't move as much as you used to back when you were still a chuunin or genin for that matter…"
Temari giggled some more and teased playfully, "Well then, I suggest you go back to your desk before Gaara heard what you just said"
"Uh, right… Well then I'd better get going, yeah? You have a nice day now, imotou… Ja!" Kankurou waved a hand casually at his sister and walked off.
Temari smiled and then lied down on her bed once again, she glanced at her battle fan and thought, "Might as well train for a bit… I don't think they're going to need me that often anyway… Just like they say, when in doubt, go break a sweat…" she took her battle fan and headed out to the training ground.
When Temari arrived; she spotted two figures that she knew too well. One being a very tall person with a long white hair, while the other being a shorter guy with a bright blond hair.
Being who she is, she kept on walking toward the two figures. Once Temari decided on something, she will do it. The blond turned so suddenly he almost collided with Temari.
"Oh, so sorry Temari-san… I didn't notice you were behind me…" the blond said apologetically.
"N-no… it's alright… A-are you going to use this training ground?' she asked, still trying to avoid Naruto's stare.
"Well, yes and no… Yes because we're using it right now and no because we're not covering all the ground…" the taller figure said with an intellectual smile pasted on his face.
"What do you mean, Jiraiya-sama?" she asked confused.
"Well you see, Naruto here is currently training to become a Sennin." Jiraiya explained proudly.
Temari let out a surprised voice and reflexively looked at Naruto, "A sennin? Naruto?"
"Hm? What? You don't think I'm going to make it or something?" Naruto crossed his arms and pouted, Temari quickly tried to find an excuse.
"N-no, no… that's not what I meant… I mean… It's uhm, quite surprising…" she said with an awkward smile, Naruto just grinned.
"Yeah, you can say so… Well, what about you Temari-san? Were you going to use this training ground?" Naruto asked her casually.
"A-Ah! Well… I was but…" before she could finish her sentence, Naruto cut her.
"Aay… Suman, suman! Please… Go ahead and use it… We're about done anyway so…" Naruto rubbed the back of his head again.
"Ah, N-no! I-it's alright… I mean, I don't usually use this training ground, but the other one…" she replied still feeling awkward.
"The other one? Ah! You mean the one behind that hill?" Naruto asked, pointing at the direction of an average hill.
"Eh? Y-you knew? That's not even an official training ground… How…?" She asked sounding surprised.
"Well…" Naruto was about to explain but Jiraiya cut him.
"If you allow me to explain, Ojou-san…" Jiraiya smirked.
"One of the basic ability of a sennin, is observation… A sennin used by a shinobi village will most likely become said village's first man scout. In other words, he or she's going to be the eyes and ears of a shinobi village in the front line." Temari nodded.
"…Thus, to be a sennin, you must be able to know your surroundings for as far as you can. The further the better…" Temari nodded once again as she listened to Jiraiya carefully.
"… And thus, it came back to your question earlier, on whether we're using this training ground or not…" Temari looked confused at first but then she understood.
"Ah, so that's what you were doing?! You were covering ground, weren't you?" She asked understandingly.
"Exactly" Jiraiya smiled.
"Mm? But… How do you do that? I mean… As far as I know, all you did earlier was standing in one place, not moving… Did you use any special techniques or..."
"Well, not really… there are many ways to do it, in Naruto's case, he's using this…" Temari looked confused once again at Jiraiya, who just pointed at Naruto who formed a hand seal and said, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"
A loud pop and a smokescreen covered the area for a few second and a clone of Naruto stood beside him, grinning. Temari was amazed and nodded, "I see…"
"Since Naruto's stamina and chakra is close to infinite, his use of kage bunshin will be most efficient for jobs like this." Jiraiya said proudly, Naruto just grinned.
"Heee… Eh? But what if the enemy spots you? Won't you be in trouble then?" She asked again with curiosity.
"Hahaha oi, oi… Temari-san… Are you, by any chance, interested in being a Sennin as well? You seemed pretty interested on the subject…" Jiraiya said jokingly.
Temari blushed and tried to hide her flared cheeks, but Naruto stopped her in doing so as he took her hands and stared straight at her face.
"Eh?! Masaka… Temari-san too? Are you interested in being a sennin? Ne, ne… Why? From when I last saw you fight, you're pretty strong too… Especially with your wind jutsus, you were amazing!"
Temari blushed harder after hearing Naruto praising her, "I… I-I… I'm… umh…"
"… Ah! If you are interested in becoming a sennin, why don't we train together? I'm sure it'll be more fun this way too!"
"Eh?!" Temari let out at the Naruto's sudden proposal, "I… I… Uhm, I-I…"
Naruto was completely oblivious to Temari's sudden stuttering and red face; instead he gave his trademark foxy grin. Jiraiya observed those two from near until a soft popping sound reached his ears.
"Hmn? A messenger?" he said as he picked up a small toad with a small bag attached on its back.
Jiraiya opened the bag and took a piece of paper; he unrolled it and read the content while the two blonds were still having the same conversation.
After re-reading it once again, Jiraiya re-rolled the piece of paper and turned his back from the blonds, "I've got to go. Urgent matter"
Both blonds just stared at him before saying, "Huh?" at the same time.
"Well Temari-san, I'm very sorry but I have an urgent matter to attend to, please do tell Kazekage-sama about my sudden departure, but I have to go now." Temari just nodded accordingly, sensing the urgency.
"And you, Naruto… Well, guess we just got to suspend our session for a bit… Sorry for that… But you know better than anyone, duty comes first… Well then see you in a bit, bye!"
With that said, Jiraiya body flickered himself behind a smokescreen that appeared out of nowhere, leaving the two blonds staring dumbly at the dissipating smokescreen.
"Great… Now I don't have anything to do until he gets back…" Naruto sighed.
"You can still train right? I mean, you can try to adapt with this training ground… And uh…" Temari said with her usual self although she still stuttered a bit.
Naruto stared at her and then grinned, "Hehehe… Now this is the Temari that I know…"
"Wh-what do you mean?" She glanced at him, trying to act normal.
"Well, for one thing… I like you better like this… It's more like you, you know what I mean?" Naruto grinned but Temari stayed silent, confused.
"Well, the Temari before is alright too I guess… But I like it better when you act more natural, Temari…"
She stayed quiet for some time until she snapped with a blush on her face, "A-Aah! Wh-who said you can call me so familiarly? Remember, I'm older than you! Where's your respect?!"
"Hahaha… Ii yo? It's not like you really care about it right? If you do, you'd correct me long ago… Well, putting that aside, I'm just glad that you're here, Temari…" Naruto smiled warmly at her, who slightly blushed.
Naruto smiled once again, "Hmm, what am I going to do now? I don't really feel like training now that Ero-sennin just ran… Hmm…" Naruto pondered for some ideas, Temari stole glances at him.
She thought of something then looked away for a moment before she spoke, "A-ano… If you want I can… I can show you around?"
Naruto looked at her for a moment and she started to blush again because he stayed silent. "Ah, shit!! He must think I'm weird or something! Quick! I've got to find an excuse!"
"Sounds good…" Naruto suddenly said, Temari looked at him in surprise, "... Eh?"
"Yeah, now that I think about it, I've never been around Suna before… So why not? Where are we going first, Temari?" The blue-eyed boy asked as he folded his hands and put them on the back of his head.
"…Eeeh?!" Temari shrieked a bit.
A while later, Naruto and Temari were walking around the busy area. However, the street weren't as busy as its name.
"…Ano, Temari?" Naruto asked the blonde kunoichi, who was crimson.
"…Yes…'" she replied softly, her shoulders were hanging in defeat.
"Are streets in Suna supposed to be empty? Or it's just this time of a day?" he asked again raising an eyebrow.
"…Well… Not really. Most of the time it's supposed to be empty… This place often gets sandstorms so… instead of doing business outside, we do it inside…"
"Hee… I see I see… I suppose it could get very troublesome to close the store when there's a sudden sandstorm, ne… Hmm?' Naruto nodded then looked to his left.
"Ano sa ano sa! Temari! Is that what I think it is?!" the boy asked with delight at the girl, who looked to her left as well, "Eh? What? You mean that ramen restaurant?"
"So it IS what I thought it was! Let's go in Temari! I haven't had any ramen since I left Konoha! Iku yo, iku! Come on!" Naruto said cheerfully as he inadvertently grabbed Temari's hand and pulled her into the ramen shop, causing her to blush even harder.
"Irrashaii!"
"Ossan! One bowl of miso ramen! And you, Temari? My treat!" He asked grinning at the blonde.
"Eh, um… M-me too… Miso ramen, oji-san…" She said as they both sat down on the stool.
"Hee… This' quite a rare sight… Sabaku no Temari… Eating ramen at my place" the owner, by the name of Sanraku, said grinning teasingly.
"Hahaha… I'm sorry oji-san… these past years had been quite hectic for me…" She replied apologetically.
"What are you saying, Temari-san?! It's alright, yo! Beside, you'll always be my favorite customer! Hahaha! So don't worry about it!" Sanraku said laughingly.
"…Hee… I didn't know that you like ramen too, Temari… I guess we kind of make a pair don't we?" Naruto grinned playfully but Temari almost spat all of her drink, her face turned deep red.
Temari clearly took Naruto's words in a different way and Sanraku noticed, "Well, well… You know this cheerful fella, Temari-san? Is he perhaps your…" He showed his pinky finger and smirked at Temari, who blushed even harder if that's even possible.
"N-n-nononononono!! I mean not yet… Ah! I mean NO! We-we-we are j-just friends! Yes!! Just friends!' Temari said denying with all her might.
"Hahaha, Ossan! Why would I become her boyfriend? She sure deserves someone better than me!" Naruto cut in laughingly.
"But kid, seeing you, I know that you must love ramen as much as you love your friends… I'm sure you've heard of this saying… Someone who loves ramen must be…"
"… A good person and never a bad person…" Naruto finished Sanraku's sentence and they both smiled widely.
"Exactly my thoughts then… Who else's better than you? Of course a guy that loves ramen more than you but that's a different story… You love ramen, so you must be a good person and from the way you look, I think you're quite reliable and strong too" Sanraku grinned at Naruto, who grinned back.
"Hehehe, thanks Ossan! But really, she deserves someone far better than me… Back home; I'm just a loser…" Naruto muttered the last part which went unnoticed by Sanraku, but not by Temari.
"Naw, nonsense! Anyway, here comes two bowls of miso ramen! Doozoo!"
Naruto and Temari grabbed their bowls and began to eat, "Itadakimasu!"
After they finished their first bowl, Temari ordered another one while Naruto ordered 2 more. After paying up, Naruto and Temari went about their way and left the ramen shop.
"Phew… I'm so full!" Naruto said, rubbing his stomach delightfully.
Temari giggled, "Why am I not surprised? You ate three bowls straight, of course you'd be full…"
"But back home, I usually eat at least 5 bowls, and sometime if I'm way too hungry, I can make Ichiraku-ossan go bankrupt, I swear!" Naruto said with a cheerful tone.
"Really, Naruto… I'm starting to wonder what are you… I mean, you have an almost infinite chakra, you have an amazing stamina, but also a huge appetite and you're very kind too…"
Temari smiled at him, Naruto felt a tinge of emotion deep inside but ignored it and just smiled back. "Ahahaha, yeah… Guess I'm not your average human, huh?" He smirked; a small blush appeared on his cheeks.
"Well then, where do you want to go next?' Temari asked leaning forward to look at him from below.
Having Temari this close to him made Naruto turn redder but then an idea came into mind, "A-ah! Yeah… I-I want to pay my respect to Chiyo-baasama…"
Then off they went toward the graveyard, Naruto stayed silent for a good ten minutes before he spoke again, "… I'm… really grateful toward Chiyo-baasan… if she hadn't been there… I might have lost a precious friend…"
Temari quietly listened and smiled, and then Naruto stayed silent once again. A few minutes later, Naruto turned around to face his escort.
"Ne, Temari… Is there any place where I can see Suna from above?" a grin painted on his face.
Temari was caught by surprise when he suddenly turned around, but quickly regained composure, "Huh? Y-yeah… I guess…"
"Really? Let's go there then!" he said as he grabbed Temari's hand once again and walked forward but stopped at once, realizing something, "Ah, right… I don't know where this place is… My bad…" He grinned and rubbed the back of his head.
Temari just smiled warmly and pulled Naruto's hand, taking him to the place with a cheerful smile on her face.
"Come, it's up there" she said pointing upward, Naruto followed eagerly.
Temari pulled Naruto throughout Suna smiling happily while Naruto followed smilingly as well. They both have forgotten about their surroundings and kept on moving forward.
"Here we are…" Temari said before she turned to look at Naruto.
"Uwaaah… It's so beautiful… This view…" an amazed Naruto commented at the sight of Suna at dusk.
"The sunset gives more beauty to Suna… The red color of the sunset mixes with the color of the buildings and the sand… It's so… Beautiful…" Temari smiled widely as if it was her whom he just praised.
"It's been a while I haven't visited this place… Before I became genin, I used to visit this place often… It kind of feels nostalgic…" She said stretching her arms.
"Eeeh? Then why did you stop coming? It's such a good place to relax and kick back and it's beautiful as hell too…" Naruto turned to face Temari, who faced him too.
"Eh? Eh? W-well… You know… Stuffs… I mean, ever since I became genin and was put in a team with Gaara and Kankurou… I guess… I barely got time to come anymore…" she looked forward, smiling sadly as her cheeks turned red.
"Hmm… I see… Then, how about this? Let's meet up here every weekend at dusk!" The blond genin smiled widely at Temari, who was surprised by his idea.
"Wh-what?" Her eyes went wide; she stared at Naruto in disbelief.
"I mean, like… You must be tired and stressed out after work right? So every weekend! Let's meet up here and release your stress… What do you think?" Naruto asked grinning widely.
"I… I-I… Ano…" Temari stuttered and she was blushing brightly, Naruto noticed and moved closer to her which stunned said kunoichi even more.
"E-Eh? Na-Naruto?"
"Temari… Are you sick? You're face is red" Naruto removed Temari's forehead protector and placed his forehead on hers, Temari blushed even harder and her heart was racing. Then she blacked out.
"Eh?! Te-Temari?! Oi! Hang in there! Are you ok?! Temari!!" Naruto yelled as he supported the fainted sand kunoichi on his arms.
Then somewhere,
"…up…"
"... Huh? Where am I?"
"Wake up, female…" a hoarse voice said, echoing everywhere.
"... Huh? Aaah!! Wh-what are you?!" Temari who was wide awake quickly gotten into her fighting position, but she was missing something, or rather many things, which she noticed.
"Eh? EEEEHHH!!!! WH-WHERE THE HELL ARE MY CLOTHES?! WHY AM I NAKED?!" she screamed aloud while she was trying to cover her body.
The owner of the other voice just snickered and spoke again, this time Temari could distinguish 'it' better, "Kukukuku… no need to scream, female…"
The creature showed a wide grin, revealing its shiny yet threatening fangs. Temari shivered for a moment but then said creature spoke again.
"Do you know who I am?" The creature asked Temari, who stayed silent in both fear and amazement, "I am what you humans call as Kyuubi no Kitsune…" the fox grinned wider as it looked straight into Temari's eyes.
"K-Kyuubi no…Kitsune…?" Temari asked in disbelief.
"That's right, I am imprisoned inside this brat as you may have already known… However, the reason why you are here, female… Is because I wanted to ask you something…"Temari sweat and gulped.
"You… Are your feelings toward that brat sincere and strong?"
"…What?" Temari asked back looking perplexed.
"Do you love that brat from the bottom of your heart?" Kyuubi asked again with a grin this time
"I… I don't know what you're talking about…" she turned her face away to avoid Kyuubi's stare. Temari was blushing crimson, completely forgotten about her nakedness.
"Hn… Don't lie to me, female… Humans are so predictable… kukuku…" with that said, the whole surrounding seemed to blur and Temari was back into her own body.
"…ri… mari… Temari… TEMARI!" a voice woke Temari up from her black out.
"Uhn…? Naruto…?" She muttered.
"Temari! Yokattaa!!! Are you alright?!" Naruto looked at her and sighed in relief.
Temari tried to sit up with the help of Naruto when a voice rang in her head.
"…Don't tell him about our encounter, female… We'll meet up again very soon… kukuku…"
Temari looked around abruptly before she looked at herself; Naruto asked her if she's alright just to make sure.
"Ano… Temari? Are you alright?" Naruto asked but Temari didn't seem to pay him much attention.
"Ooh, thank God… I still have my clothes on…" she said in almost a mutter which was heard by Naruto nonetheless.
"E-Eeh?! Wh-wh-what do you mean, Temari?! I-I didn't do anything while you passed out! I swear dattebayo!" Naruto said loudly, his face turned deep red at the suggesting images inside his head.
Temari looked at Naruto and realized what she just said, "E-Eeh?! N-n-no! I-I mean… Aaah!!" Temari too was blushing madly not knowing what to say nor to do.
Both blondes quieted down after a few minutes and spent the end of the day on top of a sand dune, looking at the scenery of Suna from above at dusk before heading back home.
A/N: Well that's chapter 4, hope ya did enjoy... oh and for Mr. Lee, i know i really should put all the translation for the japanese words that i've used, but for this chapter, i mean, for this chapter ONLY! (the previous chapter doesn't count coz i forgot) I won't be putting them, reason? I'm too lazy, tired, and oh yeah, got to study for my final exams... uh, not too convincing? well, just for the next chapter n i'll put the translation, happy? thanks! so fellas, see ya next month, peace out!