Ino: When do I come back?
Hime: Hmm...soon I suppose
Sakura: Can it be never?
Ino: SHUT UP FOREHEAD!
Sakura: NO YOU SHUT UP INO PIG!
Hime: *sigh* I'll do the disclaimer then...
I don't own Naruto!
After breakfast, Team 7 and Sai were ready to leave for home.
"Thanks for everything guys" Aiko says, after shaking Kakashi's, Naruto's and Sai's hands.
"You're welcome" Naruto grins.
Akiko smiles at Sasuke, "I'm glad my sleepwear fits you."
"It was yours? Then, how come I'm allowed to keep it?"
"Because blue is not my colour" answers the fiery redhead "I don't see the point of keeping something I am never going to wear so I am giving it to you."
"But-"
"Keep it, I insist."
Sasuke sighed, "Alright"
Akiko smirked then, "Besides, I'm pretty sure Naruto thought the colour was perfect on you."
"And how do you know that?" Sasuke asks, raising an eyebrow.
"Call it a princess intuition."
Sasuke just looked at her sceptically until Sakura finally emerged out of the palace.
"I'M READY!"
Kakashi shook his head, "Don't drink so much orange juice in the morning next time Sakura."
Sakura blushed causing the fellow teens to chuckle in amusement.
After Team 7 had climbed aboard onto to Sai's bird, they waved goodbye to the royal twins before taking off for home.
The next day
Hinata had just returned from an assassination mission only to find Naruto and Sai in her living room; lounging on her couch, looking right at home.
"Guys, I'm tired. Get out."
The two turned to see Hinata, decked out in one of her night mission outfits.
She wore a sleeveless, halter-neck, navy blue jumpsuit with a hood over her head and a face mask concealing the bottom half of her face. A black pouch was worn around her waist where she kept her weapons inside. On her feet, she wore knee-high black boots and on her hands, she wore fingerless black gloves.
"Why is it you always come back home with not even a speck of blood on you?" Naruto asks, annoyed.
"Because I don't like getting my clothes dirty? It's a nightmare to wash blood of clothes you know."
"Don't forget the smell" Sai adds.
Naruto arches an eyebrow at that, "If worse comes to worse, we have more than enough money to buy new ones if need be."
Hinata sighs then, withdrawing her hood and lets down the mask.
The three of them were the top ninjas in Konoha, so money was never an issue but for Hinata, she wasn't much of a spender and was pretty stingy when it came to her money whereas Naruto was pretty generous like donating money to the orphanage and the Academy. Sai on the other hand just spent most of his money on art supplies.
Exhausted, Hinata went over to the couch and moved to lie down it, not caring that her two friends were sitting there. She let her head rest on Sai's lap and moved her feet onto Naruto's lap, making herself comfortable.
Naruto's eyebrow twitched with annoyance, "Couldn't you sleep on your own bed and not on us?"
He didn't receive an answer, all he got was Hinata's shallow breathing in return
"Great, she's asleep. How now?" asks the blonde.
"I'll take her; you need to go see Tsunade anyway. You know how she gets when you're late."
Naruto groans, "I've only just got back from a mission, does she really have to send me on another one?"
"You know she'll only call us if she seriously needs us so you should better go."
Naruto sighs in defeats and carefully picks up Hinata's legs to get up from the couch. He sets them back down on the couch and looks at Sai.
"Make sure she gets to bed Sai"
"You know I will."
Naruto nods and leaves, leaving Sai and a sleeping Hinata alone.
It was rare for Sai to see such a defenceless Hinata so he took the opportunity to study her. Her lips were full and utterly kissable. For the first time in his life, he noticed how long the girl's eyelashes were and he also noticed that her hair had gotten considerable longer than the last time he saw her. The tips of her midnight blue hair were touching the nape of her neck.
I hope she lets her hair grow…
Sai always thought that Hinata would look gorgeous with long hair but due to her laziness, she would usually cut it short. But she hasn't recently though?
Maybe she's been too busy to cut it? With taking Sasuke as her charge now and all, it makes sense…
Or maybe she has never noticed it?
Or maybe...she's purposely letting it grow?
Sai looked at his love interest with curiosity, wondering about the change. Absentmindedly, the ghostly pale teenager began tracing Hinata's right eyebrow, following its arch with his finger and lightly brushed her hair away from her pretty face.
Suddenly, he found his hand in a tight grip and he saw that Hinata awake.
"What were you doing?" she asks him.
"Memorizing your features so that I sketch your sleeping face later" he answers as nonchalantly as usual.
Hinata raised an eyebrow at him but Sai just smirked, "Come on, I'll escort you to bed so that you can rest properly."
Hinata rolled her eyes and let her friend carry her bridal-style to her bedroom, deciding it best not question him further on his behavior.
She brushed it off as Sai being his usual weird self.
"You wanted to see me?" Naruto asked as he entered the office.
Tsuande nodded, "Change to Akuma first. Your new client will arriving in a minute."
Naruto raised an eyebrow but did as he was told. He started performing the necessary handsigns.
Sasuke entered the Hokage's office to find that it was unbelievably warm.
Are the fans broken or something?
"Her? Hokage-sama you cannot be serious!"
Sasuke looked up and her jaw dropped.
"A-akuma K-kitsune?!"
There was no mistaking it; the sun-kissed complexion, the long crimson red hair in a ponytail and that deep, manly, raspy voice speaking was definitely him. The tall man turned and made eye contact with her; black silted eyes, the colour of dried blood stared back at the coal-onyx black eyes of Sasuke. Eventually, much to Sasuke's shame, she turned away. Akuma was intimidating to her.
Akuma raised an eyebrow at that, he did not expect her to turn away first. He looked down on himself to check if he was wearing clothes.
He was.
(He used to have a problem of performing his henges without new clothes so Naruto just double-checked to be sure.)
"Maybe I just look too hot for her" he thought, smirking causing his fangs to show.
Akuma was wearing a crimson red deep V-neck shirt, a black leather jacket, dark navy blue jeans and on his feet were leather boots. He looked pretty darn sexy. No one could deny that.
Tsunade coughed then, catching Sasuke & Akuma's attention.
"From now on Akuma, you are to train Sasuke. We would like you to teach all the fire ninjutsu you know."
"Wasn't Kakashi training her on her element jutsu?" Akuma asked, raising an eyebrow at the news.
"He's run out of things to teach her. You are the only next logical choice."
Akuma sighed, "Mendoksu. Have you told Tenshi?"
"She will be made aware later tonight when she comes to see me for her weekly report."
Akuma sighs again, obviously unhappy with this but turns to Sasuke, "You okay with this?"
"Well, I have heard of your prowess as a fire ninjutsu user from Kakashi so it'll definitely be good for my training to have you as my sensei."
Akuma deadpanned, "Do not call me sensei, call me…"
He looked at her blankly for a minute lost in thought until he suddenly smirked.
"Shishou. From now on, I'm Akuma-Shishou to you and don't you forget it Sasu-chan."
Sasuke was about to yell at him until she saw that he was quickly forming handsigns but before she could use her Sharingan to see the signs, Akuma was surrounded in a whirlwind of flames. Sasuke's jaw dropped but she then shielded her face when she realized the flames were closing in on her and stepped back.
When she felt the room's temperature drop back to normal, she looked back to find the red-haired man gone and a very pissed off Hokage.
"He bloody burned my carpet again!"
Naruto: UGH, now I gotta pay
Tsunade: Damn right!
Hime: Please review! :)