Chapter 8: Life Goes On
This is fic is loosely inspired after reading "councils folly" by "Agamemnon". I have changed it accordingly to suit my story.
I would like to give credit to the base plot to him.
I do not own Naruto or any of its character if did Sasuke would have run out of Chakra by now.
Sorry for the Delay had too many problems with this chapter and I'll try my best from now on to improve my Update speed.
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A Recommendation "The Uzumaki Chronicles: Rising Tides" by ShadowEdge96, very promising story with a very good twist in the plot and his all the making of a badass Naruto.
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Temari made her way towards Training ground 44 with hesitant steps, she still remembered the dark aura that surrounded the forest when she had taken part in the second part of the Chunin exams.
As she neared the fence she suddenly remembered her soon to husband's antics when the jonin had been explaining the rules and giggled to herself. Her friend or soon to be husband was loud and obnoxious back then but undeniably cute.
Temari's face heated up a few shades of red; she cursed herself for thinking in that way about Naruto. She sighed and went near the wooden cabin and stood waiting for her Jonin instructor to arrive.
As she stood waiting suddenly a shuriken flew past her and scratched her cheek drawing a bit of blood, when Temari turned to see the attacker with a defensive stance. But the attacker jumped from the tree and landed in front of Temari.
Temari was in a predicament, she had never met any women like the one standing in front of her. The said women could only be described as a Sadist or a very sexy woman; she wore revealing outfits and had quite an eccentric character and some form of fetish for blood as she remembered the same type of greeting Naruto had received.
Temari was happy when she heard from the Hokage that she would be apprenticed under a jonin named Mitarashi Anko, she had known about the said jonin through the bingo book and also the data gathered during the invasion but for the life of her she couldn't have believed that such a powerful kunoichi was this weird.
The said jonin was staring at her new apprentice with a glee in her eyes. She knew the order from the Hokage was to train Temari as well as Hinata and make sure both her students append enough time with each other to feel comfortable around the other.
"So you are Temari the Desert Princess, now come on tell me more about yourself." Anko said enjoying the scowl that appeared that on Temari's face as she heard the nick name.
"Sensei what do you want to know? Can you give me demonstration of yourself?"
Anko was impressed she didn't give info about herself rather asked to disclose information about her.
"My name is Mitarashi Anko I'm a jonin of Konoha, I'm a torture and interrogation specialist I like Dango and Tea parties and my dream is to kill a certain man after which I can settle down happily with a man." Anko said with a faraway look on her face.
Temari was clearly surprised by the choice of words Anko had chosen, and had her jaws dropped when she said that she liked Tea parties, she just chuckled herself once imagining Anko in a Kimono.
Anko glared at Temari as she heard the chuckle.
"Now it's your turn Desert Princess."
"My name is Sabaku No Temari" Temari replied irritated at the nickname
"I was formerly a chunin of Suna but now I'm a shinobi of Konoha, I like Training, taking care of my battle fan and knitting dolls."
Anko snorted hearing about her knitting dolls, while Temari glared at Anko and continued.
"My dream is old dream has come true for now my new dream is to help two important people of my life to achieve their dreams." Temari said as she remembered the faces of Gaara and Naruto.
"Alright Temari now that we know about each other, you need to know your duties as my apprentice. You will learn some new skills along with refining your original skills though you might dragged along with me help out the genin's I'll be helping teaching."
Temari was a bit miffed at the prospect of helping in training genin's but she knew as she would gain a lot with the training she would receive form the eccentric jonin.
"Fine Anko-sensei, so what will you be teaching me first."
As soon as she let the words out Temari saw a sadistic smile across her sensei's face.
"Firstly I want check your level in stamina, endurance, evasion and ninjutsu, so prepare yourself to defend." Anko said as she summoned two snakes and started to attack Temari by throwing kunai's and engaging Temari in taijutsu.
Temari just paled and started to run seeing the incoming attack.
After half an hour intense chase, kunai throwing, cheap shots and some bite marks the session was over. Temari was glad that was over as she slumped to the ground sweat pouring down her face.
"Not bad Desert Princess, you are definitely a chunin material in overall skills but you lack versatility in your attacks and you need to stop relying on your battle fan all the time you want to attack and you definitely need to improve your stamina."
Temari was glaring at the jonin showing her irritation and discomfort at the surprise attack and the nickname, but was satisfied internally to last this long against a jonin of Anko's level and noted all the point Anko had given her to improve her skills further.
"Hai sensei I'll do my best improve my skills." said Temari with fierce determination.
"That's good, rest and take the day off you have your engagement to prepare for tomorrow."
At the mention of Engagement Temari groaned and remembered that she had to go meet her brothers and the Suna Envoy.
Temari reached Naruto's home and had a shower and made her way towards the guest houses where her sensei and brothers were residing.
As she reached the guest house she was greeted to the sight of her youngest brother coming out of the house.
"Hey Gaara" Temari called Gaara.
Gaara watched as his sister called him, he greeted her with a nod.
"Where are you going and where is Kankuro?" Temari asked
"He went with Baki-sensei to make preparation for the engagement tomorrow and I'm on my way to have some lunch." Gaara answered in a neutral tone.
"Oh ok, so how about I join you for lunch and if you are free we can go and get some things which I need for tomorrow." Temari asked
"Ok, let's go." Gaara replied as he started to walk towards market district.
Gaara found himself at a small ramen stand when he had let Temari choose where to eat.
"Welcome Temari-san, it's nice to see you once again at our stand." Ayame greeted as entered the stand.
"It's good to see you to; I really liked the ramen last time and wanted to introduce my brother to the so called 'food of gods' that Naruto claims" Temari giggled as she said the last part.
Ayame also giggled hearing this, Gaara perked up hearing about this.
"Oh where are my manners, he is Gaara my youngest brother and Gaara this is Ayame owner of this ramen stand and Naruto's sister in all but blood." Temari introduced both of them
"It's a pleasure meeting you Gaara-san but I would like to correct I'm the daughter of the owner of this ramen stand." Ayame said to Gaara
"It's my pleasure to meet you Ayame-san." Gaara replied without any hint of emotion in his voice.
"So what can I get for the both of you?"
"I'll have a bowl of pork ramen" Temari replied
"I would like a bowl of miso ramen" Gaara answered.
"Ok I'll get your order in a minute" Ayame said as she made her way into the kitchen.
"Temari how do you know this place?" Gaara asked
"Ah Naruto brought me here last night to have dinner and introduced me to them" Temari answered truthfully.
Gaara nodded hearing this and waited for the food to arrive.
Ayame brought the ramen and served them.
Both Gaara and Temari ate the ramen in silence, as Temari and Gaara finished their meal and made their way towards the shopping district of Konoha.
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Hiashi sat in his office contemplating on all the events that had been going on, he sighed thinking about the mistakes that he had done regarding Hinata.
He knew even though his daughter had told that she forgave him he couldn't accept it he had to make it up to her, with the training scrolls that he gave her he knew he had taken the first step towards repairing the relation between him and his daughter.
"Hiashi-Sama, Mitarashi-san is seeking an audience with you." A branch hyuga informed the clan head.
"I'll be there momentarily." Hiashi replied.
As the branch house member left Hiashi sighed again thinking of the effects the bold kunoichi could have on his daughter.
Hiashi made his towards the guest room where he was greeted to the sight of a blushing hyuga member and Anko stretching her body. Hiashi cleared his throat and got the attention of both the occupants of the room.
"Hiro you are dismissed." Hiashi dismissed the branch hyuga.
"I would really appreciate it if you would stop teasing the members of our clan whenever you see them Mitarashi-san." Hiashi said with a bit of humor in his voice.
Anko just snorted at this and replied "and miss the chance of seeing the Stoic hyuga mask waver and break."
"Well all joking aside I believe the Hokage-Sama has informed you the situation."
"Yeah but I can't see any profit coming out of this I think it's too late."
"Let's not ponder if it's too late or not, please help my daughter with her confidence that is all request of you." Hiashi said in a voice that had a hint of plea.
Anko was taken aback by the emotion in the clan head's voice; she sighed and nodded her head.
"Alright call the princess, I'll take her out and see what I can help her with and how much work it will take."
"Stay here Mitarashi-san I shall retrieve my daughter I a few minutes."
Hiashi made his way towards his daughter's room and knocked once.
"The do-or is open-n please co-ome in-n." Hinata answered the knock.
Hiashi entered the room to see his daughter press some new flowers in her book.
"Hinata your new mentor is here to pick you up, get ready and come to the guest room."
"Hai O-Otou-Sa-ama." Hinata replied meekly.
As Hiashi left the room Hinata got up to get ready to greet her new mentor. As she was getting ready she pondered who might her new mentor be and how she might help her.
Hinata made her way to the guest room and entered the room to see her father conversing with the proctor of second part of the chunin exam.
"Ah Hinata this is your new mentor Mitarashi Anko, she will be working with you in certain aspects of training from time to time." Hiashi introduced
"Its aa-n hono-rr to me-eet you Anko-sensei." Hinata bowed and said nervously
Anko couldn't help but frown at the tone used by the kunoichi in front her.
"Same here princess, but you need to stop being so nervous I'm not going to bite you, that's my summons job." Anko replied coolly.
Both Hinata and Hiashi paled at hearing this, before Hiashi could protest about the news Anko had left with Hinata via Shuishin.
Hiashi once again sighed thinking about the type of training her daughter would go through as he made his way back to his study.
"Hiashi-Sama you have received a letter from the Hokage's office." Hiro said
Hiashi entered the study and opened the letter and sighed once again
Inside the letter:
"Honored Clan heads,
You and your family have been invited to attend the engagement of one Uzumaki Naruto and Sabaku No Temari tomorrow at 11 in the morning at the Hokage tower."
Hiashi knew all the clan heads would attend and he needed to take Hinata, Hanabi and Neji with him. The next few months were going to be 'troublesome' as the Nara Clan head would have said.
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