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There is almost nothing in this world- or any world- more awkward then realizing the person you were being forced to live with for at least a month, had just seen you naked.
At least, in Luna's opinion. Maybe it was just her...?
Either way, she remained more-or-less composed as she followed Sakura around the corner to find the two perverts.
They were by the fence; Sai was pressed against it, paralyzed in fear, and Naruto was mumbling moodily to himself while sitting in a bush. He was covered in thorns.
He noticed Luna; her face was calm, her hair was wet and waving around her face, and her arms were folded across her chest.
Her tone was light. "Well, if you two have seen all you needed to see...I think we've had enough for one day."
Sakura nodded angrily in agreement, giving Sai and Naruto death-glares.
Naruto gulped and shot up, following after them as they stomped away. If Luna didn't kill him, Sakura sure as hell would.
FIFTEEN MINUTES LATER...
"Umm...Luna?"
"Yes, Naruto. What could you possibly need from me at this very moment?" She asked moodily.
"Well, I just wanted to, um...uh, apoligize."
"For what?" She asked, blinking innocently at him. It was always so fun to screw with people when they were uncomfortable.
"Well, for seeing you naked!" He said rather loudly as he continued to pluck thorns off himself, right as a group of younger kids were walking by.
Luna flushed. "...Oh," was her simple reply as the youths stopped walking, turned to look at Naruto, and dropped their jaws.
Naruto's jaw dropped as well as he pointed at one boy in particular. "Oh shit...Konohamaru!"
Konohamaru pointed right back at him, his cape fluttering with the movement. "Naruto! You have GOT to teach me your ways again sometime!"
Luna sweatdropped as he proceeded to check her out, and he winked at her. "How you doin'?"
Naruto spazzed out. "Hey, stop checking out my girlfriend, you perv!"
"You're calling ME a perv? You saw her naked!"
"With her permission!"
"Wha- Oh, HELL NO!" Luna interjected.
"Will you just GO with it?" He hissed under his breath while Konohamaru was busy spazzing out.
"How did YOU land a girlfriend without telling me about it? How am I supposed to land one now?"
"He can always teach you now, idiot!" The little girl of the group replied while everyone else sweatdropped at Konohamaru's statement.
Konohamaru drooped. "Yeah, yeah, but now he's beaten me to it." He grinned. "I'll make a deal with you, Naruto. Give me the slot as next Hokage to make it up to me!"
"HELL NO!" Was his instant answer.
"Well then, I want your girlfriend as collateral."
"COLLATERAL FOR WHAT?"
"All this has stunted my emotional growth, Naruto! Alright, hand her over. You're comin' with me, sweet cheeks."
"HELL NO!" They both shrieked, then exchanged a curious look before going back to staring Konohamaru down.
He finally sighed heavily in disappointment. "Fiiiiine. But in exchange, I shall be the uncle of your firstborn child. No, wait- the Godfather. Yeah, that position's always cooler!"
They both sweatdropped. "Sure, kid," was Luna's reply, to which Naruto smirked.
"You wanna have my baaaaabies," he said in a sing-song voice after the three kids left.
BANG! THWACK!
"OW! DAMMIT, LUNA!"
"HAVE YOUR BABIES? IN YOUR DREAMS, NARUTO UZUMAKI!"
THE NEXT MORNING...
THUNK.
Luna jolted into an upright position with a yell. She sweatdropped and plucked the shoe off of her butt, throwing it as if it were a biohazard.
Naruto sighed impatiently. "C'mon, it's time to go!"
"Go where?"
"Training. You're late."
"ME? You're the one who has to train. If anything, I should make you late off of sheer principle," she muttered as she curled up and attempted to doze off.
Naruto simply pulled her up by her wrist and threw some clothes at her. "Nope. Today you're training, too."
"Why the HELL am I training? I sure as hell am NOT a ninja," she exclaimed as she slipped off her boxers.
Naruto didn't notice her changing and kept right on talking. She smirked, waiting for the inevitable spazz attack he was going to have.
"You can use chakra. Therefore, by principle, you're just as much a ninja as me. Which, in itself is pretty fricking horrifying," he said with a shudder.
Luna smirked as she buttoned her jeans up and slipped off her pajama shirt. As she expected, Naruto immediately fell over with what she called the Pervert Nosebleed.
"HOLY HELL! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?"
"It's nothing you haven't seen yet! Besides, I'm wearing a bra," she said innocently as she pulled her hair out of her shirt.
It was a little past shoulder length, but still managed to get caught in her shirts every single time. Luna sighed contentedly before stepping right over him and heading for the front door. "Well, if you need time to recover...I'll see you at the training ground, I guess."
He shot up and ran after her. "You'll get lost!"
"I have already memorized the way there," she informed him matter-of-factly.
"Impossible!"
"Trust me, Uzumaki, I've memorized more complicated systems."
TEN MINUTES LATER...
Luna fingered the slip of paper curiously. Everyone but Sasuke looked like they already knew what was going to happen; Sasuke's eyes were as wide with interest as hers.
"This is a chakra slip. All I want you to do is apply chakra to it, and the way it rips will tell us what element your chakra is. Got it?"
"Got it."
Kakashi nodded, and everyone watched the paper as if they expected it to explode. Luna applied as much chakra as she could, not knowing how much this paper might need.
It almost instantly split right in half, which got some wide-eyed stares from everybody.
Sakura gasped. Kakashi made a "Hmm" noise. Yamato looked up from his Buddha Position with extreme interest. Sai blinked. Sasuke's brows furrowed. Naruto simply said, "Holy crap."
Luna looked around at them spastically. "What, did I do it wrong?"
Kakashi chuckled. "No, you did fine. It's just...this means your affinity is wind. It's extremely rare."
"How rare are we talking, here?" She asked slowly.
"Well...there are only a few main ninja known to Konoha that were or are wind-based. Asuma, his father, Naruto...and now you."
He stroked his jaw thoughtfully, like most guys do if they had a beard. Which Kakashi obviously didn't, but that's what it made Luna think of.
"Interesting. We know why Asuma has the element, Naruto is...well, Naruto...So I wonder where you inherited this affinity? How mysterious.."
Luna sweatdropped. "No...y'know, pressure or anything." She hated when people found her puzzling or mysterious. Fifteen years of being under close observation of The Agency was more than enough.
Kakashi suddenly stopped staring at her with another "Hmm" noise, and turned to Naruto. "Why don't you train your girlfriend? You know more about it, being a fellow wind-based ninja."
Naruto looked from Kakashi, to Luna, back to Kakashi, then sighed. "Fiiiiiine." Luna sweatdropped as she followed him to wherever the hell he was going.
"I'm just glad you enjoy my presence so much. It makes this whole cover thing bearable," she commented moodily, to which he just laughed.
FIVE HOURS LATER...
"Naruto Uzumaki....If I have to split...one more stupid...leaf in...half...I'm killing you slowly...and painfully," she informed him between pants.
Naruto couldn't even see her, she was in the depths of a giant pile of leaves. Her shadow clones had poofed away a long time ago (traitors), so now she was left to do it by herself.
What was Naruto doing? Well, several things. Drawing in the dirt, drinking some lemonade Hinata had given Sakura to give to him, and occasionally watching what Luna was doing and making sure she hadn't killed herself yet.
"Fine, chill....Before you pass out," he said with a snicker.
There was a rather loud THUD from within the leaf pile, and Naruto's laughter trailed off.
"Uhhh...Luna? You alright under there?"
No response.
He stood up and walked over to dig her out of the leaves. All of a sudden, she sprang out and flipped him into the pile of split leaves with a triumphant yell.
Naruto came back up spitting out leaves, and Luna was laughing uncontrollably. She then suddenly stopped. "I'm hungry," she said thoughtfully.
She stared off in thought, then shot up. "I'm gonna go to Ichiraku's."
He stared at her. "W-What?"
"What's wrong with my plan?"
"Training's still in session!"
"Oh, please. Everyone else's already left."
He stood. "...Really?"
"Yup. I think you just got lost in your sadistic pleasure of putting me to hard labor. But guess what?"
"What?"
"You can make it up to me by paying," she said cheerfully as she headed for the forest outskirts.
Naruto sighed and ran after her. "But that's not fair!"
"Fine, I'll race you."
"BUT YOU GOT A HEAD START! LUUUUNNAAAAA!"
THIRTEEN MINUTES LATER...
"Fine...You win...I'll pay..." Naruto said moodily as he caught up to her. Luna slid onto the stool happily.
"How the hell did you beat me? You were exhausted a few minutes ago."
"Naruto, I'm an agent. Acting is kinda in my job description."
"Ohhh, riiiight."
"Yeah."
The girl behind the counter suddenly squealed in delight, making them both jump. She beamed at Naruto. "Who's this? New friend of yours?"
"Oh, this is Luna. My girlfriend."
The chef nearby perked up at this and zoomed right over to them, making them both sweatdrop.
"Ahhhhh! Hear that? Our Naruto's growing up!" He exclaimed like a proud mom. He then clapped his hands together, making Luna jump.
"I'm gonna whip up something special for you two! On the house!"
Naruto smirked as the chef and girl ran off. "Well, technically this still counts as making it up to you."
"Nope. You're buying the next time, too," Luna said simply.
Naruto drooped.
AN HOUR LATER...
"That really was the best ramen I've ever had," Luna admitted with a sigh of defeat. Naruto let out a triumphant "Ah-HA!"
She rolled her eyes, then sighed. "Hey, Naruto?"
"Yeah?"
"If I'm a ninja, does that mean my parents are?"
"You don't know about your parents?"
"You hadn't figured that out yet?"
"Nope."
"Oh. Well, no. My first actual memory consists of monitors beeping and an extremely white room. And disinfectant, so I suspect it was some sort of medical facility," she said thoughtfully.
"There you go again."
"What?" She asked, glancing at him.
He gestured in her general direction. "You went all formal on me again. Do you always do that at random times?"
Luna shook her head. "You want me to be honest with you?"
"Duh."
She ignored that. "Being formal is a good way to avoid my words being colored with strong emotions. Y'know, like hatred, or fear, or excitement."
"Well...What's so bad about emotions?"
"Because, they never mean anything good. Excitement leads to disappointment, hatred leads to actions you'll regret later, fear leads to mistakes, sometimes fatal...They never bode well," she explained as if talking to a toddler.
"Not always," he replied.
"No, I'm afraid it always applies."
"Nope, not always."
Luna sighed exasperatedly. "Just forget I said anything!" He's so damn stubborn...!
Almost as if on cue, there was a rather loud POOF.
They both tensed; Naruto pulled out a kunai. Luna rolled her eyes and fingered her back pocket. Another Twinkle Toes emerged from the darkness.
Naruto got ready for action, but Luna planted a firm hand on his shoulder. "Don't."
She then turned her gaze to the ninja. "What do you want, Twinkle Toes Number Two?"
He chuckled at how she addressed him. "I come with a message."
"What kind of message?"
"First off, get your comrades off our trail. We won't hesitate to kill them any longer. Personally, I'd love to go after that orange-haired smart-ass."
Luna tensed, and Naruto felt it. She cleared her throat. "And what else?"
"You're going to have a visitor soon. Orochimaru would like me to tell you in advance that you are most certainly welcome."
He inched a little closer, and Luna tensed again. Naruto tried to attack again, but she yanked him back by his jacket. "Naruto, don't!"
Twinkle Toes Number Two chuckled sinisterly and whipped out his own kunai. Luna whipped out her gun in response, aiming for his shoulder. "I am giving you a fair warning. Come any closer, and I will shoot."
Naruto eyed the weapon curiously, and the other ninja laughed. "You think that odd stick will keep me at bay?"
He lunged for her, and before Naruto could do anything stupid, she shot him in the thigh. Twinkle Toes Two flew backwards, Naruto jumped at the noise, and Luna barely blinked.
"I warned you."
He groaned and made a signal she couldn't see before disappearing, reappearing at Luna's side.
He held his bleeding thigh, then slowly let go and glared at her. "Dammit, that hurt. Now I hope you refuse your visitor's proposal, just so I can watch when he utterly breaks you beyond repair."
He reached for Luna's throat, and she shot him again at the same time that Naruto yanked Twinkle Toes' arms behind his back.
"Don't you dare touch her!" He yelled fiercely. Luna was a bit caught off guard by that, but still aimed at the ninja with a steady hand.
"You best get going, before you bleed out from those wounds," she informed him.
"I'll...be looking forward to...seeing you again.." He said between pants. Just like that, he was gone.
Luna calmly slipped her gun back into her back pocket with a tired sigh. "Well. That was unexpected."
Naruto's gaze lingered on the gun, poking out of her pocket. "What the hell is that thing?"
"A firearm. Aka a gun."
"Whoa. Is that how you usually...terminate people?"
Luna continued walking, and he soon followed. "Sometimes. I do whatever I need to." She then shot him a sideways glance. "Naruto?"
"Yeah?"
"If I were you, I wouldn't worry about protecting me, in any circumstance. It usually gets people killed."
She tried not to smirk as his jaw hit the ground and his eyes widened.
"EHHHHH?"
Hahaha i love how she just so bluntly tells him she'll get him killed one day..
haha review !