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Chapter 7: Truth and Lies
Naruto's Journal
Have you ever played true of false? If not, you should try it.
True, my name is Naruto. I'm 15 stars and I'm currently in the stage of becoming a guardian angel.
True, I have two fantastic friends Hinata and Tenten. Our job is to protect the earthly ones that have been placed in our care.
True. I'm definitely feeling under the weather today.
Konohamaru and Moegi walked down the busy city street side by side. Moegi stopped and seemed to be staring at a particular rock poster that read 'Sky Luck'. Konohamaru noticing his friend was no longer walking with him stopped as well
"Come on Moegi we're going to be late. Come on!" He said yawning sleepily from having to be up so early. We did school start so early in the morning?
"Achoo!" Naruto sneezed for the millionth time that morning. He groaned as the wave of the sneeze passed.
"Naruto are you okay?" Hinata asked having just walked in the room with Tenten.
"I'm gonna go get the professor." Tenets said before running off quickly. It was very unusual for and angel or devil to ever be sick. In fact most angels and devils can go through their whole lives with never getting a single cold. So when an angel or devil did get sick it brought up extreme concern.
"Ahhhhhhh!" Naruto said as he stuck out his tongue for Hiruzen who also had one of his eyes held open wide inspecting both at the same time.
"Mmmm... everything seems alright. You definitely don't have a fever." Hiruzen said confused. Naruto's on face reflected how his professor felt.
"But I get hot flashes and then chills. My stomach feels like it's doing tumbles. Almost like it's full of butterflies." Naruto said trying to explain what he was feeling. Glad that his sneezing seemed to have subsided for the time being despite everything.
"I understand. Naruto look me straight in the eyes. Do you have something on your mind you wish to share with me?" Hiruzen asked leaning down to be eye level with the sitting Naruto.
Naruto's mind went back to the moment he a Sasuke had shared on their 'free weekend'. But just as soon as remembered to fleeting touches he also remembered the promise they made to each other not to tell anyone.
"No." Naruto said looking down at his lap.
"Your absolutely certain?"
"I'm sure." Naruto said still not making eye contact with his professor.
Naruto's journal
I lied, sometimes admitting the truth out loud can be difficult.
Even for an angel.
No matter what the consequences.
Naruto could already feel guilt creeping up on him for lying. But strangely enough he felt something like those power butterflies in his stomach from earlier pushing the guilt back down.
"Well then I have no other choice but to send you to the infirmary. Hopefully they'll be able to help you down there." Hiruzen said trying to sound reassuring though the worried look on his face contradicted how he sounded.
"He's taking her himself?" Hinata said to Tenten as they watched Naruto be escorted down the crowded hall by the professor. Unseen by any of the earthly students currently in it.
"Yes." Tenten answered even though the question was more of an observation. Their attention was soon drawn in by a loud booming voice.
"Clear a space for professor Tsunade! Out of the way! Professor Tsunade coming through!" The loud voice was coming from shoji who was moving past people making room for Tsunade and Sasuke. The latter also appearing worse for ware like Naruto.
"Choji we're capable of walking down the hallway. We have no need for a clearing crew." Tsunade said in an unimpressed tone. Tenten and Hinata moved more up the side of the way not wanting to get in the way of a clearly sick person. Even f he was a devil no angel like to see anyone suffer.
"I feel so weak I don't even have the energy to sneer at them." Sasuke said to Tsunade after they passed by the two angel girls. Sasuke couldn't even bring himself to look disgusted at their presence the bats in his stomach flapping around too much for him to do so.
"Once you see the doctor you'll be fine." Tsunade said confidently as they continued walking. No one noticing Minato in the back as he watched then leave down the hall box in hand.
"I am unable to follow them into the infirmary. My presence would be detected. You however will go unnoticed." Minute said releasing the spider inside the box watching it crawl after the angel and devil.
"Go serve your mistress spider. Observe and report all that occurs." Minute said his final command before walking off before he was noticed.
"Did you see that? it looks like Sasuke is sick also. Just like Naruto." Tenten said a little worriedly afraid that a new sickness was starting to go around.
"Yeah, that is a strange coincidence. I don't care about the devil... but Naruto... I wish I could be there for him right now." Hinata said worriedly to Tenten.
"Who's holding you back?" They heard a usually snide voice say. They looked over to see it had come from Sakura who was with Ino standing next to them having just stopped from flying.
"Sakura has a point. Go and play nursemaid I'll be happy to take care of our earthy." Ino said jumping at the chance to get rid of Hinata for a day. Making her job much easier.
"No way am I leaving Moegi in your hands! Forget about it!" Hinata retaliated as much as she loved Naruto she new their was nothing she could really do for him and it would be best to be somewhere she could actually make a difference and help someone. Like protecting her earthy from devils like Ino.
"I was just trying to do you a favor." Ino said with a smug smile.
Moegi stood before her mother in their living room. A look of rejection on her face at her mothers words.
"I'm sorry but you can't go. Don't worry theirs always next time." Her mom said smiling at her daughter trying to up her dejected spirits a bit.
"When will that be? Sky luck's concert is tonight. You don't understand he's my idol. I have to go." Moegi said getting more and more worked up, but she kept her tone calm and tried to keep the agitation out her face. She was not the type of teen who disrespected her parents.
"I'm sorry Moegi, but your father and I aren't available to go with you tonight and Konohamaru was sent home with a fever wasn't he?" Moegi nodded at her mothers truthful words. She was making a lot of since and that only upset Moegi further.
"I don't know what else to say. You can't go to the concert alone."
"Why not? I know how to get to the stadium by myself!"
"Your not going out alone in the middle of night in a crowd of strangers! Not my little girl!"
"Well... what if I found someone who could come with me?" Moegi asked trying to compromise.
"Someone like who?" Her mom asked skeptically.
"You know... someone like... a friends parent who already at the concert!"
"Well... that would be an entirely different story. But you'll have to promise to tell me who your going with."
"I promise and I think I know exactly who to ask." Moegi said happily walking off. 'But first I need to get a ticket to the concert.' Moegi thought deciding that was her main priority.
The mother and daughter were completely unaware of the angel and devil watching them.
"Mmmmm I have a feeling this is going to be very interesting." Ino said already seeing the possibilities.
"Why would you say that? She's just getting a ticket." Hinata asked honestly not born with the wicked nature of a devil to see the bad in everything.
"I don't know. She told her mother she was going to look for an adult to go with her." Ino said as if that explained everything. For a devil it would have.
"So what? She just wants to do one thing at a time." Hinata said ever the optimists.
"I don't think she'll be very hard to sway to my side." Ino said with a cunning smirk and wink.
"First your going to have to beat me in the challenge room! Are you ready?!"
"I was born ready!"
Hinata kicked her legs a bit egging the white horse she was riding on faster through the field of grass that was once the challenge room. Ino close behind her on her own black stallion. Though unlike Hinata who was riding bareback with nothing but a bite to control her horse she had a saddle and helmet with a whip the make her horse go faster.
"Woohooo! Eat my dust!" Hinata yelled back giddly to Ino. Ino just laughed cockily.
"You picked the wrong challenge cow girl! I Never lose in a saddle!"
"Where I come from saddles are for babies!" Hinata laughed still in lead.
"Faster! Faster!" Ino said hitting the horse to make it move quicker, but not so hard she'd hurt it.
After a while of racing they were huffing slightly now along with the horses. Hinata still in lead she bent down a bit in preparation of her horse jumping over a rather high tree log. She manage to do so with ease laughing the whole while.
"That obstacle isn't going to be an easy one to clear." Ino said out loud to herself as she started to come up on it.
"Hey! Are you going to jump or do you need a push!" Hinata screamed out turning around briefly to see the angry look on Ino's face.
"Nows my chance." Ino said keeping calm despite her anger.
"Wild fly attach." She said as her horse finally jumper going much higher then what should have been physically possible. As she did this her wings also glowed briefly materializing a heard of buffalo in front of Hinata.
"She deliberately started a stampede of buffalo in my path!" Hinata said outraged.
Naruto and Hiruzen sat across from Tsunade and Sasuke in the waiting room of the infirmary. It was actually to separate rooms and doctors for angels and devil infirmary though they still had to share a waiting room. The room itself was like a glass box with two doors one leading to the angel room and another to the devil. The doors, halls, and rooms were all made entirely out of glass.
Hiruzen rubbed his chin as he observed Sasuke who also appeared to be afflicted with the same illness as Naruto.
"Not feeling well professor? Maybe you should see the doctor yourself." Tsunade asked with no real care in her voice as she lounge back simply wanting something to do while they waited. And what better pass time was their for a devil then messing with angels.
"That won't be necessary. It's just the the stench of sulfur doesn't agree with my stomach very well." Hiruzen said with a pleasant smile on his face.
"Oh! How dare you!" Tsunade said pissed but slightly impressed by the returned insult. Sasuke and Naruto were quiet throughout the entire exchange. Sasuke was to busy trying to calm his beating heart at the sight of Naruto. He was completely unable to tare his eyes away. Naruto on the other hand could;t bring himself to look up. Overtime he looked at Sasuke the feeling in his stomach seemed to get worse.
After a while the angel doctor appeared and Hiruzen stood to speak with him.
"An ugly predicament indeed. Naruto feels weak. He has hot and cold flashes at the same time. Iv'e never seen anything like it."
While Hiruzen talked with the angel doctor Tsunade was doing the same a cross the waiting room with the devil doctor.
"Sasuke is usually diabolically delightful. A volcano of wickedness and now he barely even to provocation. You should go in now." Sundae said her last sentence to Sasuke and he lifted himself up from the chair to go into the doctor office. Across the room Hiruzen was placing a comforting hand on Naruto's back as he leaned to talk to him.
"Naruto, don't be afraid. It won't hurt. Have a little faith." He said but that didn't seem to remove the troubled look on his face. Above their heads a spider was watching everything play out.
"Easy boy! Easy!" Hinata said trying to calm her horse as is bucked and whined trying to get away from the on coming stampede.
"It seems to me your horse is smarter than you are. He understands the kind of trouble your in."
"Ino is right. They could crush me like a bug. I have to find someway to avoid them no matter what." Hinata thought to herself. Ino laughed at her troubled look. Hinata continued to watch the buffalo that were fast gaining in fear before a happy look seem to come across her whole face.
"Angels power, scepter of light." As Hinata said this her halo began to glow brightly. She grabbed it and tossed it higher into air where it turned into a long yellow scepter. She caught it when it came back to the ground. The moment it touched her horse the creatures eyes lit up with it's color and the fear seem to leave the animal completely replaced with determination and confidence. She kicked her heels into the horses side making it charge head firsts towards the buffalo.
"What's she doing?! She's heading right towards the buffalo." Ino thought baffled at her opponents choice of action.
When Hinata had come right up on the buffalo her face hardened and her grip on the scepter tightened.
"It's now or never! Jump fly!" She yelled over all the noise so her horse could hear her. It jumped as she hit it's backside with her scepter. The jump continued on until they had cleared the entire herd. Hinata let out a sigh of relief as they landed.
"We made it!" She said triumphantly not really believing that worked.
Ino's face scrunched up in anger at her loss.
Once again.
"What a line. And I still have to find someone to come with me. Just great." Moegi sighed out as she got behind what appeared to be the 80th person waiting to buy tickets for the Sky Luck concert. She didn't see Hinata watching her from behind. Hinata smiled before turning to her firefly mascot.
"Okay lightening, this girl deserves some good advice from us. lets go." She said to her adorable little bug before they both flew off to a secluded area so she could transform.
"This is as good a place as any." Hinata said to her mascot as they hid behind a large billboard. "Activate metamorphosis. To guard and protect." Hinata said quietly forgetting for a second that even though she had to hide didn't mean she had to quite.
After transforming Hinata began walking down the street near the line for tickets. As she passed Moegi she purposefully dropped her purse near her feet.
"Oh sorry! So clumsy of me."
"Oh... alright. It's okay."
"Are you also in line to buy a ticket?"
"It's my dream to see Sky luck live." Moegi answered with a dreamy look in her eye.
"Wow! Tell me about it! Iv'e wanted to see him forever. But what happen to your friends?" Hinata said bringing up the topic as casually as she could.
"Well... I'm kinda by myself right now."
"By yourself? You can't go to a concert by yourself. It's not nearly as much fun!"
"But your by yourself aren't you?"
"Me? No, not me! My friends are... they're over there! See them!" Hinata pointed at couple of girls standing a distance away thinking quickly.
"I'm just the one standing in line. Do you know if you have more then one person you get a discount on tickets?" Hinata brought up quickly changing the subject.
"Really?!"
"Yes, if you buy tickets with a friend as long as your both there you'll save on ticket prices. Isn't there anyone you know going to the concert?" Hinata asked gesturing to the people around them noticing that a few were people from Moegi's class.
"Yeah... actually I know them." Moegi said a look of recognition crossing her face at the sight of a few girls she knew.
"Well what are you waiting for go over there and talk to them." Hinata said giving Moegi a wink of encouragement.
"Yeah." Moegi mumble under her breath and began walking to the girls. Only to be stopped by Ino in her earthly form.
"Hey you!" Ino shouted getting Moegi's attention before she could reach the girls from her class.
"Are you talking to me?" Moegi asked curiously only for Ino to ignore her question.
"Did you just get out of line?"
"Yeah.. but I..."
"Are you here to see the Sky Luck concert?"
"Huh? You bet I am."
"Alright! Do you want to buy my extra ticket?"
"What! That's illegal!" Hinata said angrily in now in her angel form. Why did Ino insist on making their human bad? She was such a sweet and innocent girl! Ino tried to suppress her smirk at Hint's reaction pulling out the ticket and holding it out to Moegi.
"Your tickets in the first row!"
"That's right you'll only be about three feet away from Sky Luck. If you want you could reach out and touch him." Ino said excitedly trying to come off as a fangirl even though she'd never so much as heard of this 'Sky Luck' guy before.
"Don't give in Moegi." Hinata said over her earthy's shoulder really hoping she wouldn't go for this.
"Oooooh you only have one ticket?" Moegi said her tone suggesting she was already going to say no. Hinata could already feel her smile growing as she watched Ino openly frown.
"Yeah, that's right. It's not like these things grow on tress." Ino said tone edging on being a bit snippy.
"Then I'm sorry I can't buy it. I have to find someone to go with me."
"That's my girl!" Hinata said throwing up her fist in pride.
"I'm sorry you didn't seem like the type of girl that needs her mommy to still look after her." Ino said before walking off waiting for Moegi to take the bait.
"Wait! It's not that... it just so happen that I promised my mother I'd have someone come with me." Moegi said trying to explain herself. She had a bit of caring too much about what people thought of her.
"I understand but your here right now and she's not. A ticket like this doesn't come along everyday." Ino said holding out the ticket again.
Large numbers of teens ran into the building as cheers could be heard from the starting concert.
"Your kidding! They've already open the doors!" Moegi said watching as people were already rushing in. Wanting nothing more then to go in herself.
"When this many people come to an event they have to execute maximum crowd control. So do you want the ticket? Cause if you don't I'll just sell it to somebody else. It's up to you?" Ino said holding out to ticket. Moegi seemed to be having an inner war with herself as she looked at the open doors to the concert.
"I'm begging you don't give into temptation." Hinata said even though she knew she couldn't be heard. Only seconds after she said this Moegi seemed to have made her decision.
"Okay, I'll buy it." She said with a smile. Only making Ino's larger.
"You made an excellent choice."
In a room filled to the brim with portraits reflecting the souls of all the people in the world a picture with Moegi on it happily smiling shifted into a frown and angered look.
(Infirmary)
Naruto watched as the doctor gently took his halo tapping it lightly with a small hammer watching it light up at the contact. The doctor hummed at the reaction. Naruto couldn't real tell if it was a good hum or a bad one.
Sasuke at the exact moment was having a pumpkin placed between his horns on his head. After a few seconds the pumpkin began to shake and expand before exploding completely. Sasuke grunted slightly annoyed at being covered with pumpkin slime, but he didn't complain he had to trust the doctor knew what he was doing even if his methods seem questionable.
Naruto was now being asked to fly in a circle in the room as the doctor observed his wings while he did so. Naruto did so happily with a small smile on his face. He was always happy when flying. The doctor and Hiruzen watched with smiles as Naruto seem to be having no problems with his wings.
During his test Sasuke was having his own he was now asked to use his heat vision. He did so without question destroying one of the medical machines in the room. Tsunade gave a proud smile to the boy when she saw is began smoking from being blasted. Sasuke couldn't help but give a chuckle at the senseless bad behavior. It was his specialty. The devil doctor hummed as he took note of it all.
Again with Naruto who was having his mind reading abilities tested. The doctor wrote down the number 5 on his board before looking up at Naruto waiting for his answer. Naruto seem to think for a second before smiling as he held up five fingers. The doctor nodded in approval as Naruto seem to be passing all the test.
Back with Sasuke who was asked to test his flame abilities. He flew up before setting the bed he was just laying on on fire. Tsunade clapping in the back ground.
Thought out the entire exchange nobody saw the spider going back and forth between the two rooms.
"Ino defeated me! I'm a complete failure!" Hinata said head on her knees as she curled up in her blankets.
"Don't say that. Even angels have to lose sometimes." Tenten said trying to get her spirits up. Though she did't smile until they both her a voice coming from the bedroom door.
"You win some you lose some." Naruto said the picture of perfect health as he walked in.
"Naruto! Your back!"
"How are you?!" Tenten and Hinata both yelled as they charged Naruto practically tackling him in a hug. They all span around in the air for a while the collision haven knocked Naruto off balance in the air.
"Great! Thanks to the infirmary I'm as good as new." Naruto said.
(With Sasuke)
Sasuke slapped Choji across the face as soon as he saw him sleeping. The devil equivalent of a warm wake up.
"Rise and shine you lazy bum! This is no time to be sleeping."
"Hey Sasuke are you really back?" Choji asked completely unconcerned about the earlier slap.
"Sasuke is back and worse then ever before!" Sasuke said feeling great after his visit to the doctor. Both Naruto and Sasuke not realizing it was probably just the pseudo effect of visiting a doctors office that was making them feel better seeing as they were give no medicine or treatments and only took test all day.
"Your doctor, what did they say he had?" Tsunade asked her comrade/enemy Hiruzen as they both walked through the school plaza towards the water fountain. Even though they both hated each other as devils and angels always do they tended to come to each other a lot for certain things see as they were both teachers and no matter what you teach some things are just universal when it came to the job. It helped them both to consult with each other even if often times they just ended up in arguments. Hiruzen sighed at her question.
"Nothing. The doctors said he was healthy as a horse." Hiruzen said frustrated not understanding what could be wrong with his poor student.
"Sasuke as well." Tsunade said taking on Hiruzens thoughtful look herself.
"But what about all those symptoms? Hot flashes, cold flashes, butterflies in the stomach." Hirzuen listed off.
"Think Hiruzen, it happens on earth all the time." Tsunade said feeling like she'd already come up with the answer.
"You think so? You mean to think that Naruto and Sasuke are...!" Hiruzen asked still finally getting where she was going. He didn't finish the sentence not being able to comprehend it. Though Tsunade nodded finishing for him.
"Yes, I believe the two of them are falling in love."
Our regal prisoner watched two different screens in front her being projected from the eyes of the spider next to her. One showing Naruto and the other Sasuke. Though it didn't matter they were both doing the same thing. Looking out their windows at the moon thinking of each other. More screens began to pop up showing images of the two's entire day.
"The spider succeeded in following Naruto and Sasuke inside the infirmary." Minato said in a bowing position.
"Excellent job Minato, but remember the spider is dangerous..." Minato flinched at her words "...even for you."
"I am always careful."
"I expect nothing less of you my minion. That's why you still serve." She said before standing in front of the picture of Naruto and Sasuke gazing at the moon.
"Naruto and Sasuke. Sasuke and Naruto. Now the out come of events depends on you."