Wohooo! To everyone that reviewed and read my story, You made me the happiest girl in the world, in my opinion~ XD thank you so much for the kind words and the comments and reviews and by just simply reading it! OMG! Thank you! Oh and don't worry, Naruto and Sasuke's meeting is almost coming, mwahhaha! Oh no, I spoiled, RUNNING AWAY NOW! Lol, I'm sure that wasn't a spoiler or not...Oh, I' m gonna do this cause every fic I read has one... ohoho!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto characters or Naruto, but I do own the plot, and Naruto's ramen...
Naruto: What? Why My Ramen?"
me: yeah, your ramen, just so I can tease you! NaruHina babies! XD
Naruto: (O.o) What the hell?
Me: THANK YOU TO THOSE THAT READ AND REVIEWED MY FIC, I WON'T DISAPPOINT YOU! ON WITH THE STORY, TALYYHOOO! AWAY!
Naruto: *sweat drops*
(3 days later/ inside the Namikaze estate)
Hinata, Shikamaru and Kakashi were sitting around the couch in the living room waiting for Sasuke to come down, Naruto had already left early in the morning even before the sun had risen. Sasuke on the other hand didn't know there were guests in the house.
It was now 6 am and a worried Hinata called everyone that knew about Sasuke's return to come to naruto's house immediately. Now Naruto doesn't know this, but they are his friends so it isn't called breaking in.
Hinata waited patiently for Sasuke to come down, she really wanted to speak with the Uchiha about what Naruto's been doing, if he slept and ate right. Of course, Sasuke would know, he lives with him. Hinata was sure that even the Uchiha had a heart to worry about his friend.
Shikamaru looked pissed and annoyed and would complain about what a drag the day turned out to be and Kakashi was simply worried about Naruto being the sensei and all, he wasn't too keen on seeing Naruto so exhausted and over worked.
Hinata wanted to know what was going on with Naruto, it had been 3 days since they returned and Naruto had been pushing himself. Naruto has been working non-stop ever since, he's been working on different cases concerning Madara Uchiha and some cases relating to Sasuke's return and the deals he's made.
Kakashi also noticed Naruto working late hours and early shifts in the morning, he decided to confront Naruto on the matter and took any means to separate Naruto from work, but he was turned down almost instantly.
He tried to ask Hinata to make Naruto stop but Naruto, stubborn as he is, refused even Hinata. Everyone seemed to worry about Naruto, he had been stressed almost all day long but never really complained and he hid his tiredness very well.
It only took his closest friends to realize this. Hinata helped whenever she can in the office to get work done but they just keep piling up even more day by day, she would also wonder why Naruto doesn't let her touch the other documents on the floor next to him.
Kakashi on the other hand, with Iruka's help, would offer Naruto and treat him to dinner whenever he can but he was mostly rejected on his offers. And now they just don't know how to stop Naruto when he's like this, and if you piss him off, that's where the real problems start.
Shikamaru noticed the condition Naruto was in, he had already sent some papers regarding Sasuke's return and had ANBU escort him to the Kage's. It took him about a day and a half to return with the agreements.
When Shikamaru went to the Kage's, he placed certain documents that Naruto made just in case the Kage's would disagree, Naruto entrusted the rest of the speech and authority to Shikamaru.
"What a drag." Shikamaru would say as he made his way to speak with the Kage's.
Shikamaru later explained the sudden desire for a meeting the Kage's went on a rampage, mainly the Raikage. The Raikage almost attacked somebody if it wasn't for his brother 'Bee', Naruto's fellow jinchuriki. Bee tired to reason out as well but was ignored by his brother 'A'/ Raikage.
'A' wanted the Uchiha to be executed and killed, Gaara on the other hand wanted to hear all of it come from Naruto's mouth and agreed to file in a meeting concerning the Uchiha.
The Mizukage, Tsukikage agreed to hold it as well all for the sake of sorting out what had really happened during the war.
Raikage had no choice but to agree as well, they didn't take it lightly as an argument erupted with the Kage's for Naruto's childish behaviors, one would disrupt the other and correct the other, but one disagrees then one would completely agree... it's all too confusing right now.
Shikamaru eyed the Kage's and was utterly annoyed, he had been to meetings like this with his father but it had never been this chaotic. Shikamaru being Naruto's counselor, took authority on telling the Kage's about Sasuke personally from what he'd seen, the Kage's didn't believe him.
They all signed the paper of holding a meeting and took the documents to read what Naruto had been meaning to ask. They were all startled by what Naruto had implied in the document and thought whether it was a scam or not.
The documents held all of Sasuke's previous actions, from leaving the village, killing orochimaru and his brother, how Sasuke joined Madara and how Sasuke later abandoned Madara and helped end the war. The Kage's read it all and dismissed Shikamaru.
It was all there, the work Naruto had been doing for the past three days were all related to Sasuke, half of the work load he had was all about him, and Naruto was secretly doing this and hiding it from the others, Shikamaru didn't know how he was able to get the documents pass Sakura and the others but Damn, Naruto's good.
Shikamaru waited impatiently in Naruto's house, he was dragged in early by Hinata calling to her. He was holding the paper that had the Kage's signatures to hold the meeting, he was going to give it to Naruto today but he got into a little detour.
"Hey, Hinata..." Shikamaru yawned. "How long is this going to take? I'm sure that Naruto wants this paper handed to him on his desk pronto, I don't see the reason why we need to ask Sasuke about Naruto's condition."
"But Shikamaru-san!" Hinata fidgeted. "I'm sure that... "
"I don't think Sasuke will be up anytime soon. What do you think he knows that we don't?"
"Sasuke-kun will know about what's going on with Naruto-kun, I'm sure he can tell us if Naruto really is alright. We've seen Naruto-kun yesterday looking like he's about to pass out. I've also asked Sakura-san about Naruto-kun, she said she came to him telling him to stop doing all the work, but he just refused to let it go."
"He's really stubborn isn't he..." Kakashi sighed as he stood up from the couch and walked to the stairs.
"Where are you going Kakashi-sensei?" Shikamaru tilted his head.
"Sasuke is probably up by now, he doesn't sleep late, I'm sure of it." Kakashi headed upstairs and Hinata and Shikamaru followed him. They walked to Sasuke room and Kakashi opened the door, he found the room was empty.
"That's odd, he couldn't have left." Kakashi rubbed the back of his neck and turned to Shikamaru and Hinata. "Well, any idea's as to where he went."
"He probably left through the window." Shikamaru boredly said. "Let's leave, I have no more business here in this house. Naruto will probably have my head if I don't give the paper to him today."
"But... that can't be... none of us sensed him leaving. " Hinata pouted. "Perhaps he's still in this house, he could be hiding..."
"Why would Sasuke even hide from us?" Shikamaru eyed Hinata. "If he wanted to leave, he could have killed us already and went away. He's long gone by now."
Hinata bowed her head and clenched her fists tightly as she ran to exit the room there was a loud 'thud' coming from the room next actually sounded like a large 'bang' and then came a small scream coming from the room, but Hinata wasn't sure.
"Eeepp!"
Hinata stopped and seemed terrified, her hands were covering her mouth, Shikamaru and Kakashi walked out of Sasuke's room and ran and kicked the door open to the other room.
They were surprised to see Sasuke under the table rubbing his head, the Uchiha got out from under the table, winced at them and stood up and glared at them.
You can see the room was clearly Naruto's, there was some ramen cups and coffee on the table and a frog stuffed animal on the shelves when he was a kid. Some pictures of Iruka and him, some pictures of Kakashi and Team 7.
There was a bed in the middle, open windows from either side of the bed, there was a table in the middle.
A bathroom door to the right, some shelves and book cases to the left, some other stuffs hanging on the wall. It was very clean, the only mess was the huge piles of paper scattered around the room and Sasuke was holding one of them.
"What is it?" Sasuke sternly said as he sat on Naruto's bed. "Why are you all here and what the hell do you want from me now?"
"Good morning to you too... " Shikamaru muttered under his breath seemingly annoyed with the Uchiha's lack of respect for certain people.
"What are you doing in here?" Kakashi retorted. "Why didn't you come downstairs?"
"Investigating." Sasuke plainly said as he ignored the rest and started reading out the paper, he winced a few times and threw the paper away, took another one next to his feet and after he read that he threw it again and stared at the three.
"What is it?" Sasuke bit his lip.
"Investigating what exactly?" Shikamaru leaned on the wall. "And what is all this?"
"That's just it. " Sasuke looked around.
"What do you mean that's it?"
"The Dobe decided to ignore me every night and I hardly see and talk to him, he's been... distant. He wouldn't let me enter his room whenever he came back, so I decided to check it this morning, I've been snooping around his room for about an hour now."
"What did you find?" Kakashi wondered, boy were they slow, that's in Sasuke's opinion.
"I found all of these papers about me in his room. He's probably reminiscing about the past and whatever! Seriously, the idiot will kill himself one of these days."
"kill himself?" Hinata looked at Sasuke and he stared right back at her.
"I'm joking. " Apparently, nobody found this funny and the Uchiha's humor was simply way off than it should have been.
"So all this is about you?" Kakashi broke the awkwardness.
"Look, he told me he was copying some documents but he never said what, I found out it was this... " Sasuke pointed at the scattered paper. "Now that that's over. What are you people doing here? I haven't done anything to destroy the village... "
"We know that... "Shikamaru pointed at Hinata. "She want's to ask you a few questions regarding Naruto's behavior, it seems that ever since you came back with him, he's been acting strange and been doing work loads twice as much... "
"You're saying it's my fault?" Sasuke emotionally stated.
"No, not at all!" Hinata backfired. "I just want to help Naruto-kun, he's just so different. He always looks tired and I don't think he's been sleeping and eating right."
"Will you tell us what's going on so we can sort everything out?" Kakashi crossed his arms. "We don't have time to waste."
"Fine."
Sasuke stood up and walked away from them and headed downstairs. The three of them followed hesitantly but followed all the same, Sasuke went to the kitchen and drank some water before going to the living room where the three were waiting.
"Well?" Shikamaru wondered, Hinata was waiting but still shaking and Kakashi was emotionless and annoyed at some point.
"Since day one, he told me he was fine, that Sakura gave him a bunch of workload but after that and the days pressed by, he'd come home by midnight or during early mornings at three o'clock. He'd sleep about an hour later and get back to the office."
Sasuke continued.
"He's going through it day in day out, I never see him eat anything when he comes home. He'd drop by saying he forgot something, the other day I found him collapsed next to the stairs, when he woke up he got back to doing his silly work."
Everyone listened to the Uchiha.
"I asked him if I could give him a hand. " Sasuke blushed and looked away.
"You asked?" Everyone in the room sweat dropped.
"I.. never really do those kinds of things... but it... felt necessary. He refused my offer and I had to keep asking him what he was doing and why he was doing it, he told me he was doing it for everyone. I had to disagree."
"Is he alright?" Hinata bit her lower lip. "I just want to know if he's doing well... "
"Define alright. He may be good at hiding his exhaustion but he's already going to collapse again if he keeps it up. I've been meaning to stop him but when I found out was he was up to I decided to let it go."
"What is he up to?" Kakashi wondered.
"He's working because of stress, I guess he's worried about that meeting he's going to have with the other kage's regarding my issues. By the Shikamaru... "
Shikamaru winced upon hearing Sasuke call out his name.
"Did they approve or decline it?"
"Approved, the meeting starts next week... So that's what Naruto's been worrying about and the stress is making him work?" Shikamaru eyed Sasuke as he read the paper concerning the meeting.
"Probably." Sasuke grunted. "I'll talk some sense to him, do you mind if I be the one to hand this paper to him? That is if you want me to."
"Go ahead, it's your problem now." Shikamaru turned to walk out the door.
"Hnn.. " Sasuke eyed the two that were left in the room. "Is there something else that you want?"
"That paper is important you sure you want to take it there on your own?" Kakashi looked at Sasuke glaring at him. "Fine by me, I'm leaving... good luck talking some sense into him."
"Wait! You can't just leave..." Hinata reached for Kakashi but he was gone in an instant."Meee..."
Hinata let out a small yelp and turned to Sasuke with teary puppy eyes. Sasuke sweat dropped and turned to get the jacket Naruto gave him, he took it off the coat hanger and gently placed it on him and placed the hood on his head.
"Guess you don't want to leave the dobe alone... " Sasuke sighed. "Fine... "
"I'm really sorry If I have to..."
"Doesn't matter, we're both going the same way anyways." Sasuke sternly looked forward. "Seriously, the dobe should stop whatever it is he's doing, he's an idiot for sure if he let's even his girlfriend worry."
Sasuke walked silently with Hinata following him from behind and she would also try to keep up because Sasuke was fast even just by walking. Sasuke ignored the fact Naruto's girlfriend was following him around, he took deep breathes by each walk and started thinking about something else entirely.
"I wonder what the others are doing now?" Sasuke thought. "I bet their actually having fun without me, and the only person I know that still cares is Naruto... damn it, Why him?"
He knew that Naruto and Hinata were together because the dobe can't keep his mouth shut Talking about her day in and day out, he knew about Shikamaru being the counselor for Naruto and that Shikamaru was trying to get a date with Temari.
He also knew that Kankuro and temari were busy doing investigations about Madara Uchiha and those freaking thugs that came after them.
He knew that Gaara was still the kazekage and the kage's were allies with one another because of the aftermath of the war. He knew that Kakashi was still working as a ninja but plans on retiring some time soon, although he did not know when exactly.
His other friends, or if they are still friends, he did now know.
He walked past the Yamanaka's flower shop but stopped and went back to see Ino, tenten and Sakura there. They were giggling and talking gossip, Sasuke didn't want to intrude, he saw Sakura happy. He stared at her laughing and talking with the other girls.
He sighed as he forgot where he was headed as he took steps towards the flower shop, He looked sad, Hinata wondered as she looked back and forth towards Sasuke and sakura. She knew that Sakura loves Sasuke and probably the Uchiha is feeling the same way towards her.
He just didn't want to fully admit it to himself.
"You should go talk to her." Hinata whispered.
"What?" Sasuke was startled as he moved his head to Hinata.
"I'm sure she would want to see you, the look in your eyes feels like your longing for something." Hinata smiled. "She really misses you... it's been so long that you had a decent conversation."
"What makes you think it was even decent?"
Hinata tilted her head, she didn't understand what Sasuke tried to imply. They never had a decent conversation, it was always ignore her and ignore the dobe, his goals were only to kill. They never had a proper talk at all.
"Never mind."Sasuke sighed when he saw Hinata's look.
"Why would she want to talk to a criminal like me?" Sasuke thought. "She's better off without me at all, guess my previous plans were all for nothing, the lies that's taken me."
Sasuke looked away and started to walk again when Sakura had called out Hinata's name. Hinata was startled as she saw Sakura come up to her and pulled her into the flower shop and Sasuke sighed and went after her and went inside the flower shop.
"Why me?" Sasuke muttered under his breath as he lowered his face under his hood.
"Hinata! Just the person we want to see!" Sakura smiled at her. "Now, were going to march straight to Naruto and tell him to quit doing whatever it is he's doing! I mean, I'm getting blamed for everything that's being placed on his desk! I swear I want him to stop!"
"Girl, you need to tell your boyfriend that he's going to kill himself!" Tenten scowled. "I mean, overworking... uh.. yeah! Don't mind me, Naruto's strong he won't get killed, not unless he dies from exhaustion!"
"Tenten!" Sakura frowned. "You're scaring Hinata!"
"Sorry!" Tenten laughed. "Seriously Sakura, ease up!"
"You... you guys what?" Hinata blushed and fiddled with her fingers. "But that's... are you sure?"
"Hello, earth to Hinata!" Ino started yanking Hinata's arm and pulling her to some roses. "Here buy some and then give it to Naruto and he'll be all happy and he'll stop doing his work. That's my plan! Nothing works better than a sweet red rose given to a guy, also a kiss would do!"
"That's idiotic!" Sasuke thought as he stared at the four. "They gossip so much they don't even know I'm standing just right next to the door. Pathetic, I don't have time for this!"
"Ino-san, I don't think it's that easy!" Hinata was being shaken by ten ten. "Tenten-san? What are you... ?"
"Nonsense girl!" She laughed. "We heard you two are dating each other, The gossip is everywhere! They said that Naruto is about to propose to you! Everyone thinks so, Hiashi-sama might already know about your engagement!"
"My engagement?" Hinata let out a yelp.
"That's a given fact." Sasuke scoffed. "The idiots been telling me he wanted to marry her, but it's too fast... Dobe, doesn't even know how to charm a woman."
Flashback:
"YEAH LIKE YOU COULD CHARM A WOMAN!" Naruto yelled.
"Huh? I have lot's of girls back then that want to kill just to get near me!" Sasuke mused.
"That was ages ago TEME!" Naruto held a fist. "Besides Hina-chan wants someone more manly and nice than be with a charmer... She likes me for me..."
"You admit it then, that I can charm women better than you!"
"TEME!"
end of flash back!
"I take it back." Sasuke sweat dropped. "I shouldn't have bothered arguing with him when he was pretty much exhausted, 2 days ago! The idiot can't take a joke."
"P-propose?" Sasuke heard Hinata talk. "I can't... he wouldn't... that's too fast.. he... "
Hinata blushed, she felt like her nose was bleeding and her vision was starting to blur as images of Naruto kneeling in front of her, smiling and telling her 'will you marry me?' was too much for her.
"Don't pass out girl!" Tenten laughed. "I'm messing with you, but there are rumors like that!"
"Of course you and Naruto are a cute couple." Ino whispered but can still be heard. "You are so lucky! Sai is only about to ask me out and he's doing a horrible job with it, Sakura here is just moping helplessly in the sidelines, could you imagine..."
"Moping?"
It caught Sasuke's attention, he crossed his arms and eyed the four not wanting them to know he's actually eave's dropping waiting for Hinata to finish.
"Why would she be moping?"
"Ino-pig!" Sakura huffed. "I'm not moping!"
"Awww come on!" Ino yelled. "You miss Sasuke-kun! Admit it! You've been drooling all over his picture on that team 7 pic you have inside your room."
"Drooling?" Sasuke wondered.
"I am not! How can you be so sure about that gossip of yours?" Sakura shouted. "For all we know that's got to be lies, you've never been to my room or see me doing those kinds of things."
"Girls, i think you should... " Hinata tried to stop them.
"Please Sakura we all know your obsession!" Tenten scoffed.
"Obsession about Sasuke?" Sakura crossed her arms. "I am not obsessing over a guy like him, how did we even get through this topic huh? I. AM. NOT. OBSESSED. WITH. SASUKE!"
Sasuke shook his head and felt the need to walk away but his body won't let him. Hearing Sakura talk about him like that simply hurt. They way she said his name... with no 'kun' at the end didn't seem right.
She was pushing herself not to say it.
"Aw, come one! You've been crying to me all the time about I miss Sasuke-kun, I wish he was here, get over it. There are a lot of guys here in Konoha that have asked you out, you all turned them down! It's because you're waiting for SASUKE-KUN! JUST ADMIT IT AND GET IT OVER WITH!"
"I turned them down for my own reasons." Sakura bit her lips.
"You think Sasuke-kun is going to come back and start dating you, he never once noticed you and me during our times as genin and times at the academy. What makes you think he'll notice you now?"
"I.." Sakura wanted to cry but all she did was cry. "Ino, Sasuke is... "
"Look Sakura..." Ino bit her lips.
"What do you want?"
"Sasuke-kun was the main reason our friendship got cut, we fought each other for him, I swear it's his fault that he broke us apart! I don't want to lose you getting lost over this feeling of yours for him, just because he looks good doesn't mean he's kind or anything..."
Ino's words rung inside Sasuke's head over and over again.
"I've been a total idiot." Sasuke face palmed. "Why is it so hard to do this?"
"CALM DOWN GIRLS!" Tenten shouted. "Take it easy!"
"I'm sure Sasuke-kun loves you Sakura-san, deep inside... He really does care for you."
Hinata smiled and everyone turned to her with disgusted looks in there faces.
"I'm sure he's thinking about you all the same as your thinking about him, I don't think there's much difference."
"She's somehow right." Sasuke sweat dropped. "But that didn't come out right."
"How would you know?" Sakura sulked. "Sasuke... Sasuke-kun is... it's complicated. He and I are just... not meant to be.. he's too... good for me..."
"Is that what she really thinks of me? Am I that self-centered." Sasuke bowed his head. "Guess this is how Naruto feels when Sakura rejected him numerous times... only difference is... it's not the dobe."
"Ohoho! Sakura's dreaming about Sasuke-kun's hot bodied abs! And how she'll manage to sneak in a hug at night... He'll get to touch him and talk about him being all manly and how he's changed into a kind loving man! Oh, what a fantasy that would be..."
Ino started talking about disgusting things to the girls and they were all about teasing Sakura about Sasuke being all love dovey to him. Sakura had blushed red as a tomato and Hinata was also doing the same. Via, Hinata was thinking about Naruto proposing and doing the same.
Sasuke blushed as he heard the girls talking about him, it's a crime to eave's drop. He could have sworn he made some coughing noise but the girls didn't catch him, he coughed again and they still didn't notice him, he wanted them to shut up talking dirty stuffs while he's around.
He'd rather leave, but it'd be rude to leave Hinata since he agreed she can come with him to Naruto's office and deliver the letter.
He shook the blushing off him and scowled, was it really true that Sakura was still after him. Was it true that Sakura still loves Sasuke? Sasuke doesn't know, all he knew was she was angry at him.
For all his recklessness.
For his stubbornness.
His coldness.
and..
His bitterness.
Sasuke kept on thinking about whether or not he let Sakura know he was there. little did he know, the four girls had stopped talking and Ino started shouting. He snapped when he heard someone scream and point at his face, he stared and processed what was going on.
"Oh who's that guy?" Ino pointed to the door. "He was listening in all the time! GET HIM!"
"Crap!" Sasuke thought and winced. "They noticed me!"
"Eave's dropping on a girls conversation is a CRIME!"
Sakura lifted her right hand, her fists had closed. She was ready to attack Sasuke, Sasuke was about to make a break for it, he backed away outside.
Sakura ran to the door and Sasuke backed away even more, She brought her fists outside on the ground and everything shook, she had made a small earthquake and it broke what her fists landed on.
All eyes from the villagers were on them, Sasuke tumbled to the floor not wanting to hurt her and show that he was capable to avoid it, other reasons were he deserved getting hit.
Sakura was about to hit Sasuke in the face this time but Hinata suddenly appeared in front of her and her attack was blocked by Hinata's swift hands.
Sakura let out a gasp as she backed away to where Ino and Tenten were, they called the people to get back to there business as they all regained their composture, Sakura pouted and looked at the guy and glared.
"You!" Sakura said as she pointed angrily. "Why didn't you talk? Now you heard a bunch of things that weren't suppose to be heard by a guy!"
"Stop! Sakura-san!" Hinata defended Sasuke. "He wasn't listening to anything! He was there because I lead him inside the shop! SO STOP!"
"Wohh! Hinata can be evil at times." Tenten snickered as she whispered to Ino. "Let's not make her mad and get on her bad side."
"Agreed." Ino nodded.
Hinata noticed her friends trembling. She smiled at them and went back to being Shy as she noticed what she had done.
"He's... with me..." Hinata fiddled with his fingers. "He's taking me to Naruto-kun! We... have some business to take care of... I.. we.. need to go there and help.. Naruto-kun!"
"What? He was listening in to our conversation. How long have you been there?" Sakura glared. "Well, speak up! We don't have all day!"
"A while." Sasuke coughed to hide his voice.
"Uhmm.. I better go to Naruto-kun!" Hinata blushed at her mental thought. "I..we.. "
"Taking you to Naruto?" Tenten crossed her arms. "What's his business with the Hokage? Naruto's already stressed enough as it is!"
"Oh! I know this!" Ino grinned at Hinata. "You're cheating on Naruto so that when Naruto see's it, he'll stop working and beat this guy up, so you payed this guy to do something to you or what?"
"I would never...!"
"Or maybe this it the guy that's going to be the one that makes the marriage complete, he's going to dub you wife and husband! WHEN'S THE WEDDING!" Ino laughed.
"Girl, you do know humor!" Tenten smiled and started laughing with Ino.
"Ino you know Hinata won't do that!" Sakura glared. "Besides, I'm sure it's important or something. Hmm.. That guy looks kinda familiar, what's your name?"
He didn't speak, Sasuke tilted his head facing Hinata.
"He's... " Everyone turned to her.
"What's wrong he mute or something?" Tenten wondered.
"He's saving his voice for Naruto-kun!" Hinata laughed nervously. "We... have to go! Immediately."
Hinata pushed Sasuke away as his hood lifted up a bit revealing his eyes as he stared at Sakura. Sakura was looking at him as well, she recognized those eyes, that face. It was sad, he was looking straight at her, his feelings were going through him.
"It can't be." Sakura covered her mouth. "It can't be him... it's not... Wait!"
Sasuke stopped but then walked away with Hinata looking back and started walking behind him, trying to minimize the tension rising.
"What is it?" Ino looked at her. "Hey it looks like you've seen a ghost or something, what's wrong Sakura? Hello... you still there?"
"Did you see that?" Sakura pointed. "Did you see his face? His eyes?"
"No." Tenten sighed. "Sadly We didn't! They went away too fast... seriously, they really mean business. What do you think it could be... ?"
"It's Sasuke-kun!" Sakura shook Ino's shoulders. "I swear, I know that face and those eyes anywhere! Naruto must have brought him back! 3 days ago, that guy with the hood, you know you saw it Ino!"
"You're delusional Sakura." Ino pulled Sakura and Tenten into the flower shop. "Come on, I'll make you some nice Hot chocolate for the day! That'll cheer you up from your depression."
"But I could have sworn... " Sakura looked back to see Hinata and the hooded guy walk away.
"Save it!"
(Naruto Namikaze in his office)
"I wonder why Shikamaru's taking so long." Naruto yawned as he lifted his head from his desk and moved the papers away from him. "I know I made it clear I needed that approval immediately."
Naruto had woken up early for 3 straight days, got home late in the early mornings and would only sleep a few hours, mainly he slept with one or two hours a day. He had dark circles under his eyes, and he was stumbling to stand up right.
He was a walking mess, if you look at it he looked like a living zombie.
He hated to admit it but everyone was right, he needed to take it easy but he just couldn't. He knew he had to do his job so that nothing will backfire from him. He was going to stop once he received the approval and he was gonna stop anyways since Sakura was coming back to work tomorrow.
The three days were up and he seriously wanted to go to bed and just hibernate the whole week and not be disturbed. He smiled a few times while he stretched his body. Sasuke and him were doing great, just like old times.
He actually opened up to him even if the Uchiha didn't know it. Sasuke's been more than willingly to talk to him and show some emotions, they'd argue a few times but still end up worrying about each other. Like Best friends would always do...
The Uchiha was also getting better from his exhaustion, only problem was he was the one that's gonna need the rest for a while.
Naruto stood up from his seat and looked outside the window and see children playing and running around. He felt like his body was getting heavy and felt like the need to pass out but that was broken off when someone barged and kicked the door to his office.
It was one of the ANBU, terrified look on his face. It looks like he's been running. Naruto turned to look at him and gave him a bewildered stare. The ANBU took that time to take a deep breath.
"Hokage-sama!" The ANBU stated.
"What is it?" Naruto wondered." Did something bad happen?"
"The carving squad and the construction squad wanted to do your face in the Hokage monument as soon as possible to honor you, the maker had started to argue with the Konoha ninja council because they state that it is too soon to put your face into the mountain itself..."
"My face?" Naruto stared shocked. "Then what happened? Did the Construction team listen to the elders? How about the fifth Hokage? What did she say?"
"She's also there Hokage-sama." The ANBU replied quickly. "She is... against the elders, she wanted to have your face carved into the mountain almost effectively immediately."
The ground shook and they heard a blast erupt from behind the ANBU. It was headed at the Hokage monument,
"Baa-chan... "Naruto sweat dropped.
"Hokage-sama, The 5th told me that she wanted your presense there immediately... She would.. kill me if you aren't there in a few more moments.. I believe."
"Oy, Anbu!" The ANBU felt like shaking and cowardly exiting but he held his composure just fine. "They are arguing right now aren't they?"
"Hokage-sama, I believe that was the 5th Hokage that did that blast!" The ANBU shouted. "Trying to kill the elders... " The ANBU sweat dropped. "You have to... "
"Alright, I'll check it out but I have you know that there's no need to rush placing or rather carving my head into that giant stone, it doesn't really matter." Naruto yawned. "I just got placed the Hokage about a few weeks ago. What are they getting so worked up about?"
Naruto yawned again and exited the room leaving the ANBU there shaking, he had just witnessed the 5th Hokage's rage first hand and he almost got killed now he had witnessed the 6th Hokage's... umm.. his attitude towards the matter.
Not the reaction he was looking for.
Naruto made his way to the Hokage monument still dizzy and tired. He didn't want Tsunade destroying the entire monument, all that hard work all for nothing, he'd think that if it was destoryed then there would be nothing but broken heads on the mountain.
That looked ugly, he made his way there as fast as he can.
(back with Sasuke and Hinata)
Sasuke was gritting his teeth as he walked towards the Hokage's office. Hinata was silent, she did NOT want to annoy the Uchiha further, that incident with Sakura, Ino and Tenten at the Flower shop was never brought up during there walk.
Sasuke walked to the barbecue shop and had a glimpse of Shikamaru, Chouji, Kiba, Lee, Shino, and Neji talking. He decided to ignore them seeing to it that he doesn't want the incident that happened a while ago to happen again.
He was fairly worried if he came in contact with Kiba, Akamaru and shino and his bugs he'd be doomed, it's best to stay away from the other guys for a while until he gets full clearance to live in the village again.
"Che, I can't even interact with people." Sasuke muttered and gritted his teeth.
Suddenly a large explosion coming from the Hokage monument erupted, the ground shook. Everyone had stopped to look at the monument only to find people at the top next to the fifth Hokage's head. It looks like they began constructing Naruto's head.
Sasuke found it a little funny with that statement being said, he hoped they make the head bigger to match the dobe's personality. Sasuke chuckled not knowing Hinata was freaking out whether or not she'd be worried about him.
Again nothing was brought up, not even a tiny conversation.
Hinata and Sasuke walked inside the Hokage's office hoping to find Naruto but sadly, he wasn't there. Hinata walked up to the desk and found that the entire place was stripped clean of any documents and papers. Hinata started rummaging through the drawers.
Sasuke was looking around the office, it's been a while since he's been there. Almost years since he's entered the office again. He wondered if he'd ever walk again inside this place without any disguise whatsoever.
Someone opened the door gently and walked inside, Hinata turned around and Sasuke stared. This person had a jounin vest and had a scar going right on his nose (A/N: I don't know if that's a scar or not) and had a spiky brown hair almost like Shikamaru's.
"Oh, it's you Iruka-sensei. Nice to see you this morning." Hinata smiled. "Do you know where Naruto-kun is? We needed to hand over something to him."
"You just missed him, he went to the Hokage monument." Iruka sighed. "Just about a few minutes ago."
"Why the monument?" Sasuke asked. "Out of all places?"
"Apparently, the 5th Hokage is arguing about whether or not to place Naruto's face on the monument, she's making a mess up there including the elders. They said that Naruto's face shouldn't be placed up there yet, they think it's too soon."
"The elders are fighting over that?" Sasuke chuckled. "That's just pathetic."
"But Naruto-kun deserves to have his face carved into the monument. He's done so much for the village already, I mean... Nobody in the village is complaining it's only the elders." Hinata said.
"Yes, but the elders have some authority over some people." Sasuke said. "If that's what your trying to to point out."
"I completely agree with the two of you..." Iruka then stopped and turned to Sasuke. "By the way who are you? I don't believe we've met before but I do recognize your voice."
"No one you need to know." Sasuke lowered his hood and walked to the door. "Let's go, Hinata."
"Wait just one moment!" Hinata reached a hand out and turned to Iruka. "Sensei, what happened to all the papers that were on Naruto-kun's desk? They seemed to have disappeared, I was sure there were documents on the desk the other day... "
"I took care of them." Iruka smiled.
"You did?" Hinata brought up her sleeve to her mouth to hide her gasp. She felt a wave of relief struck her, Naruto was done.
"I already transported them to where they belong, Naruto's already finished everything that Sakura had piled up, he's free to go. I think he's going to go home after he's done with the issue going on top of the monument."
"I see." Hinata sighed victoriously. "Thank goodness he's finished."
"You really do love him don't you." Iruka laughed as Hinata blushed.
"I... I.. well... we..."
"Congratulations on getting together with Naruto, I'm sure you two will be a very happy couple. He told me 3 days ago... It's the first so I am proud of him, good luck telling Hiashi-sama about this. Congratulations!"
"Y-ye-yes!" Hinata blushed. "We... we will.. and thank you... "
"You better hurry and catch up to Naruto, I'm worried about his health as much as I know that both of you are also worried. Good luck!"
"Hnn... " Sasuke walked away and Hinata followed.
"Thank you Iruka-sensei!" Hinata waved as the two of them walked away from the office and headed towards the Hokage monument just behind the office building.
(on the Hokage monument)
"I will not tolerate your childish behavior Tsunade!" Hama shouted at Tsunade. "If you dare speak another word then so be it I will... "
"Will what?" Tsunade shouted back. "You elders are older than I am, I can crush you with just one hands, you elders are only an advisory and nothing more. The Hokage decides whether or not things shall be done!"
"We cannot tolerate such absurd decisions." Daiko retorted. "Naruto has only become Hokage, there is no need to place his head on the monument so soon!"
"I agree!" Hama replied. "It is too soon."
"TOO SOON!" Tsunade shouted, the workers had all backed away and left the monument because of there arguments leaving only Tsunade and the elders a top the monument.
"YOU CALL THIS TOO SOON! Naruto has put his life on the line too many times and I DON'T HEAR ANYONE OF THE VILLAGERS COMPLAINING ABOUT PLACING HIS FACE ON THIS MONUMENT! He deserves it!"
"He's not ready!" Hama shouted back.
"NOT READY? He's been ready all his life!"
"His face cannot be placed here!" Daiko retorted.
"Will you please stop it!" Naruto walked towards them with crossed arms.
"Naruto." Hama and Daiko were startled. "It's you."
"You people are giving me a headache." Naruto rubbed his temples. " Now I don't mind if my face is placed on this pile of rocks or not. I don't care! There's no need to rush and there's absolutely no need to argue whatsoever."
"Naruto, the construction team only wants to do this for you." Tsunade smiled. "Besides I think you're warming up to the idea of having your face carved here."
"Heh... " Naruto grinned. "As much as I like the idea, I am in no rush to have it placed here or not. I only came here to stop the fighting erupting between you and the elders. Anymore unnecessary actions will eventually destroy this village one way or the other."
"I think he agrees with us." Hama smiled.
"I am not agreeing with any of you, my decision is of neither, that's it and that's final. I don't see anymore reason for you to ask again."
Naruto grunted as he felt a wave of tiredness sweep over him as he coughed a little, he felt his head burning up and his body getting heavy.
"Not agree? Then what is your decision exactly?" Daiko wondered. "Clear it out!"
"I say that we let the construction team do whatever they want, they want to carve my head on the monument then so be it, I see no reason why you want to stop them. It's of there own willingness to do it and nobody forced them whatsoever so there's no need to argue anymore."
"Fine, we'll leave you alone to deal with the matter." Daiko being the more respective one dragged Hama back to the shinobi council room.
"When did you become so wise Gaki?" Hama shouted. "I liked you better as a noisy prank master brat!"
Naruto rubbed his temples as Tsunade laughed. "Seriously when will they die?" Tsunade said laughing again. "I swear they are too old to still be walking among us."
"Yeah..." Naruto started swaying a little bit.
They were standing near the edge of the cliff of the mountain next to the 5th Hokage's head, there were no railings at the side meaning anyone can fall if they weren't careful.
Tsunade turned to Naruto. "Are you alright gaki? You don't look so well."
That's when Naruto slightly fell of to the side, loosing balance from the dizziness, the edge of the rocks holding their weight broke. Naruto fell from the edge, Tsunade ran and dropped to her stomach trying to catch Naruto's hand but the fall was too fast and Naruto fell.
"!" Hinata shouted behind him was Sasuke.
Naruto felt the strong wind from his back, he knew he was falling but his body won't respond to him. He was too tired, he was exhausted. He saw someone in front of him trying to grab him but he kept falling and the person couldn't reach, then it was all darkness.
"Damn it... not now." Naruto tried feeling something but it all felt numb.
Silence.
Dripping water.
Gate opened.
Bars rung as they hit.
Giant puddles were disrupted.
"Snap out of it Kit!" The Kyuubi's voice ran through his head. "Wake up kit!"
Need to know:
Hama and Daiko are the names I invented for the elders, seeing to it that I don't know their names except for Danzo being one of them. Haha! I'm so happy that guys dead! XD
Oh, I was really shocked myself about why I made Sasuke come to agree with Hinata coming with him. LOL! I never expected the chapter to end up having them walk together.. LOL and meet up with gossip girls. LOL! I'm not that type of girl..
With Ino being all disgusting.. and talking about stuff like that. It's just all for fun, so I hope nobody got any wrong Idea's... I like Ino too! XD
By the way, you will all find out what will happen to NARUTO FALLING ON THE HOKAGE MONUMENT AND THE KYUUBI TALKING! MWAHAHAHHA!
thank you to everyone that read this...
Any suggestions you make is allowed, I am willing to make a challenge, that went out wrong.. I am willing to take the challenge.. hahaa!
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