Author's note : Hey, hope y'all are having a good day. Here's the new chapter, sorry for taking so long!
Disclaimer : Joker-chan no own Naruto desu~ See how bad my Japanese is? There you have it, I don't own Naruto. Just the plot of this story, ne?
Inherited Will of Fire
Naruto was having a nice dream, it involved being Hokage and building a nation with a wide selection of ramen from all over the country. Once someone would taste the ramen they'd forget all about bullying others and instead would want to be friends with everyone.
His dream was just reaching the climax where all the Kage were gathered together as Teuchi was serving Naruto's favorite miso ramen, and right by his side was Sakura who was feeding him while Ino was feeding their other friends who were also there.
"This is a creation sent from the heavens!" one of the Kage roared.
The others cheered in agreement.
"I propose that we all unite in order to build a country dedicated to ramen. The art of making it, the art of eating it, and everything else involving ramen." Naruto declared.
"RAMEN! RAMEN! RAMEN!" Everyone started cheering.
Then suddenly everything went black and his head is hurting. It didn't take him long to realize he fell off his own bed. 'And I was just having an awesome dream….' He complained in his thoughts trying to curl up and sleep again.
He doesn't even get to the point of sleeping because suddenly someone's knocking on his door. "Go away!" He yelled in annoyance. Who would be visiting him anyways? Probably his landlord demanding money. "I already paid!"
Besides it was like five in the morning, he still had around two more hours to sleep until he has to get to the academy. If he doesn't Iruka-sensei would come and get him.
The knocking stopped for a moment, and Naruto assumed that the landlord gave up, but then the persistent knocking continued.
Feeling annoyed Naruto stalked over to the door prepared to give his landlord a good piece of his mind, only for his words to die in his throat when he sees who was at the door.
"Sakura-chan…" He breathed out in surprise.
'What's she doing here so early in the morning?!' Naruto's mind screamed, because even though he was delighted to see Sakura, it was still too early in his opinion.
"May I come in?" Sakura asked raising an eyebrow.
"A-ah, yeah," Naruto mumbled glancing back to his apartment, "It's a bit messy though, ttebayo." He warned stepping aside.
"That's alright, you can go to sleep again if you want."
Naruto furrowed his eyebrows in confusion, why would Sakura-chan visit him and then tell him to go sleep? But too tired to even question it and not well versed in social etiquette he nodded and stumbled back to his bed in a drowsy state.
Maybe he'd dream about ramen again?
Instead he fell into a dreamless sleep.
It felt like only ten minutes, but when he started to stir it was because the sunlight was shining on him. But stubborn as he was Naruto refused to get up just yet.
"Mom said we'd head there in two weeks." He heard Sakura-chan say.
He frowned, who was Sakura-chan talking to?
"Possess the whole trip? Is that even safe?"
Naruto was sure no one else was in his apartment. But he was curious, he didn't know Sakura was the type to talk to herself. 'I didn't think Sakura-chan could be a weirdo.' But it was refreshing to figure out that Sakura-chan had her flaws as well.
Straining his ears to listen better he jumped in surprise when his alarm clock starting ringing. There went his chance to listen in to whatever Sakura-chan was talking about.
He sat up from his bed and turned off the clock, normally he'd just throw it at the wall, but he couldn't afford it anymore. His pranking tools took too much money. And the Sandaime won't pinch in to help the things he destroyed anymore.
"Oh, Naruto you're up." Sakura-chan greeted him as if she wasn't just talking to herself a minute ago.
"G'morning Sakura-chan." He lazily greeted with a yawn.
"You should go dress up for the academy." Sakura noted.
Naruto looked down at his attire, long shuriken patterned loose fitting pants with matching long sleeve.
"Nice pajama by the way." She giggled.
"G-gramps bought this f-for me!" Naruto defended himself quickly.
"He has quite the taste."
With that Naruto fled to his bathroom in need for a shower, he quickly noticed that his bathroom was cleaner and actually had a nice smell. It kind of smelled like some flower, but the scent wasn't overly strong.
Brushing his teeth and showering took less than twenty minutes.
Then Naruto merely opened the bathroom door to walk over to his closet to grab his orange jumpsuit, completely forgetting that Sakura-chan was there before she coughed.
"Naruto, it's not appropriate to walk around with only a towel while your friend's over." Sakura-chan chided him, but for some reason her voice sounded different and a bit more amused. Almost like she was being mean.
Naruto frowned, Sakura-chan was never mean to him. So was it his imagination?
"S-so go change in the bathroom before breakfast g-gets cold." Maybe it was his imagination, considering Sakura-chan's voice was back to normal.
Shrugging it off Naruto did as told and put on his usual attire before he went back, he realized that his whole apartment seemed cleaner, and had that same flower scent.
"Sakura-chan, did you clean this place up?" Naruto asked.
"Took you long enough to realize." Sakura-chan giggled at him.
Naruto only offered her a sheepish smile as he sat down to eat. Breakfast as Sakura had called it, was merely some onigiri. But even so Naruto couldn't be any happier, this is after all the first time he's ever had breakfast with someone else instead of by himself.
"You didn't have to come and clean, ya know?" Naruto found himself saying as he munched on his seventh onigiri.
"I wanted to. Besides, I'm usually up early anyways." Sakura assured waving him off as she cleaned the rice cooker. Naruto didn't even know he had one.
"Well, " Naruto started glancing at the clock, a look of mischief replacing his cheery attitude, "We have enough time for a prank!"
"The last one wasn't so memorable." Sakura dryly said.
"Iruka-sensei just got lucky, ttebayo!"
"Perhaps." Sakura allowed staring off at space, a slight glare on her features.
Naruto blinked following Sakura's gaze, but there was nothing there. Just air. He ignored that fact, maybe Sakura-chan was just daydreaming after all.
"So? Are ya in?" Naruto excitedly asked.
Sakura sighed, "I don't know Naruto, the civilians will only get annoyed at us."
"But pranking is fun!" Naruto tried to persuade her.
"I know, but isn't it kind of boring? There's no honor nor is it fun to mess with civilians." Sakura pointed out.
Naruto could agree to that, since the only fun part about messing with civilians was when he would get chased and had to improvise an escape route.
"Then who do we prank?" Naruto curiously asked.
Sakura had a thoughtful look on her face before she gave a decisive nod, "We mess with higher ranking people, pull of big pranks, and most of all we don't get caught even when they know it's us because we'd just be that good. If we can pull that off...we know we're true ninja."
"That sounds hard." Naruto pointed out, but his mouth was stretched up into a grin. He was excited at the prospect.
"It's challenging." Sakura said with a grin of her own, "You in?" she asked holding up her open hand.
Naruto slapped his hand on hers, the sound of flesh hitting flesh echoing through his apartment, "Believe it."
"Good, now I have to go meet up with Ino-chan, I'll see you later."
Naruto nodded, his mind already going through ideas of their future pranks.
"Umm, can you see me?"
Sakura blinked at the brunette in front of her, the girl didn't look dangerous or seemed to have any ulterior motives. With a quick glance to Shisui who gave her an assuring look she decided to give talking to this spirit a chance.
"Yes." Sakura nodded at the spirit in front of her.
The brunette seemed surprised for a moment, but then a warm smile lit up her features. "Sakumo-san was right then."
"Excuse me?" Sakura questioned.
At the same time Shisui had asked, "The Sakumo?" with an almost fanboyish look on his face.
The brunette in front of them giggled, "Yes, the Sakumo Hatake."
Sakura's eyes widened immediately, she now recognized the name as well.
'Konoha's White Fang' Inner murmured with awe.
"I'd have thought that Sakumo-san would have passed on already, but I suppose thinking about the circumstances of his death it would be logical for him to have not passed on yet." Shisui mused aloud, a contemplative look on his face.
Sakura nodded in agreement to his musings, simply because the fact that Sakumo was the one who took his own life by suicide was enough for one to conclude that he was in a despairing situation.
'You think he regrets saving his teammates instead of completing the mission?' Inner curiously asked.
Sakura shrugged, because she didn't know. How could she know something about someone who she's never met before? It's simply impossible.
"Would you take us to him? We'd like to meet him." Shisui requested of the brunette earning Sakura's attention.
Sakura opened her mouth to protest, she did have the academy to go to after all, only to feel her mouth closing on its own. 'Inner!' She whined.
'We can't pass this off Sakura. Besides our perfect attendance record's been botched already.'
Sakura's shoulders slumped in defeat, because as much as she hated to admit it, Inner did have a point.
"Of course, who knows? Maybe you two can help him." The brunette said with a knowing smile.
Shisui seemed excited at the prospect, but Sakura was skeptical. It's been years since the accident, and now his honor was already back in place. No one blamed him for anything anymore. So why was Sakumo still around?
"My name's Rin by the way." The girl informed them.
Chapter End.
A/N : That's a wrap, I guess? Finally going to focus on Sakura's ability a bit more in the next chapter, and Naruto's not quite sharp enough to grasp that Sakura was definitely talking to someone.
Questions :
1. You can send anyone back in Madara and Hashirama's time, who would it be?
2. You can be reincarnated as one of the Konoha 12's older sibling. Who's your little sibling?
My answers :
1. I'd probably send Kakashi, if for my own amusement.
2. I'd either be Shikamaru's or Shino's. And I'd probably try to set them up with Sakura, Ino, Hinata and Tenten, because I'd just be that type of big sister.