Ch 11

"Ahhh! Emily!" Naruto's voice wavered slightly as he yelled in surprise. I saw him push the door to slam it shut and quickly stepped into the doorway, bracing myself for the door. When Naruto hit me with the door and realised he couldn't close it he screamed before running away into his home yelling "I'm sorry!" all the way. Giving an irritated scowl I slammed the door open and quickly chased after him.

"Wait!" I yelled stumbling over the mess on his house.

"Nooooooooo!" Naruto wailed before slipping on some rubbish and falling onto his front with a heavy thud. I didn't miss the opportunity and pounced on him. Pulling his feet off the floor and holding his ankles then sitting on his back to stop him from escaping.

"Why are you running?! I'm not mad or anything!" I questioned, my voice laced with irritation.

"Emilyyyyyy." he whined as he pulled at the floor throwing rubbish back at me in an attempt to escape. I paused to look around and sighed as I made a mental note to come round and tidy up for him later. It was a disgusting mess. Naruto finally stopped squirming and I spoke up.

"You better not tell me you thought I hated you." I stated looking down at his messy mop of blond hair. He stiffened.

Of course he did. Does he have no faith on me at all?

Sighing I slowly let go of his legs but made no move to get off him just in case.

"I told you I don't hate you. For one, I've had no experience with the Kyuubi so I'm not scared of it. Two, you're not the Kyuubi so why should I treat you differently?-"

"Emily..." Naruto interrupted. "I didn't think you hated me last night." I raised a dubious eyebrow, not that he could see.

"Really?" I asked. He nodded.

"You stayed to protect me." I rubbed the back of my neck, a little surprised he made the connection between that and it not being possible that I hated him.

"uh... yeah... I did." I stated lamely before remembering he still ran from me. "Why did you run then?" I asked. He gulped and shifted uncomfortably.

"Well this morning I realised that I didn't help at all and let you get beat up and I figured you'd be mad that I didn't even come back to help you." He started talking faster obviously getting nervous. "Then I thought that's you'd have all night to think about how angry you were, then you'd remember that I wasn't even human and hate me! NOOOOooooooo!" Naruto started trying escape again so I quickly pulled his arms back and lifted his front off the floor to stop him, careful to hurt him as little as possible, still he complained that I was pulling his arms off.

I was irritated that he didn't seem to trust me at all, but I figured I deserved it for being so hostile all the time. I sighed "Look Naruto I wouldn't hate you even if you were some freaky dead monster from space." I said exasperated. "Besides if I hated you for not being human that would make me a hypocrite, after all..." I trailed off, suddenly realising where I was taking that sentence. I panicked a little but swallowed and tried to avoid continuing. Let go of Naruto's arms and stood up, .

"Any way Naruto I just needed to make sure you weren't being stupid. I have stuff that I need to do. So... yeah I should get going." I held my hand out to Naruto and pulled him up when he grabbed it. Smiling I gave him a small nod to say goodbye and turned to go home, but I stopped when he spoke up.

"Emily." I stood there, frozen, and wondering what to do if he asked what I was going to say. "Last night... sorry I couldn't help protect you... you got up and fought even with your injuries, while I couldn't do anything even though I wasn't hurt. I was so weak." Naruto's eyes were staring at the floor and his hands were balled into tight fists.

"Naruto..." I trailed off and glanced around, not sure what to say, but then I smiled. "You protected Iruka-sensei right?" Naruto looked up, seemingly surprised that I knew. So I explained "I asked Kakashi about it." Naruto then nodded, and I let my smile grow.

"Then you didn't just let yourself stay weak, you fought when it was important." I chuckled slightly as a thought struck me. "Besides, you beat Mizuki when I couldn't and I'm two years older than you and have a lot more fighting experience. You can't be that weak."

Admittedly I wasn't able to use my best form of fighting and have only been studying and training to be a ninja for a week, but there was no need to tell Naruto that, he was obviously a stronger ninja then me where it counts.

Naruto smiled at me, then laughed, and I knew he was back to normal.

"I guess I am pretty strong huh!" He said rubbing the back of his neck and laughing proudly, a large grin present of his face. I rolled my eyes and made my way to the door.

"Don't let it go to your head. See you soon... oh yeah." I saw the door open and remembered I had also left Naruto's food outside. "Naruto! I bought you some proper food. Eat it sometime ok." I told him, picking up the bags and placing them inside.

"Eh?" Naruto quickly appeared by my side and began exploring the bags. I laughed and stepped outside, closing the door behind me. Then I walked down the stairs to my flat.

Just as I got to the door a ninja appeared. I flinched as he used the body flicker jutsu to literally appear in front of me. I immediately went into defensive mode and stepped back a bit.

Can't these guys turn up normally?

"Are you Emily Fenton?" he asked. I sighed and nodded.

"The Hokage wants to see you." He said before disappearing again. I frowned.

What could he possibly want now?

Curiosity took over and I decided I might as well go straight over.

"Why did you call?" I asked as I stepped into the third office for the third time in eight days.

That's quite a lot for someone who's not a ninja right? Does he have all this time to waste on me?

"Emily, I'm glad you came so fast." The Hokage said. I nodded and he continued. "Yes well a mission came up and it sounded interesting." At this I was confused and it must have shown on my face because the Hokage chuckled. "I know you're not a ninja yet, but this sounded very ghostly. I thought you should go look for any leads on your brother." He finished. My eyes widened in surprise and I could feel a few tears threatening to appear.

"...What? Really?" I asked, hesitant, and trying not to get excited at the thought of possibly being able to find Danny. The Hokage nodded.

"Yes but don't get your hopes up, we don't know what it is, it could be nothing." He paused to see I understood that then went on to explain what was happening.

A/N sorry if I'm moving too fast or this was a bit too badly written. I've been hitting block after block so I wanted to quickly move on to this new mini arc thing that you see the beginning of, and I'm tired, very tired. I reallly wanted to write ch 11 so I did the whole thing this evening. If you watched Danny Phantom you can prepare for a familiar face in this next mini arc thing ^_^ hope you enjoyed this chapter