Ice God
Chapter 3
Disclaimer; I do not own Naruto
MERRY CHIRSTMAS EVERYONE!
A/N; I have no idea how the currency in the Naruto-vers works, so to make things easy(for me) 1 yen=1 dollar ok?
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Naruto sat on his bed looking at his gloved hands with a critical eye, the gloves were pure white and were made of very soft silk, and in the palms of both hands/gloves were very small markings that were barely visible unless one was to look closely. He remembered what his grandfather had told him about the gloves and why he was supposed to always have them on.
-Flashback, 2 days earlier-
After the doctors and nurses had looked him over and checked if everything was fine, Naruto was released from his bed and the hospital. His grandfather had then taken him to his new house, which was about half a kilometre from the hospital.
When they arrived at his new house, Naruto was surprised to find that it was a whole apartment complex instead of just a single house. The building itself was fairly large, but looked to be rundown and in need of some repairs, to fix the exterior at least.
Inside, the house had four rooms which included a kitchen, with a stove, kitchen unit and fridge. A bathroom with a shower and a bathing tub, a small living room equipped with a large couch and a brown, plain, table with a single chair, and finally his bedroom, which had a single bed, a wardrobe and a small desk that was facing the single window in the room.
"Now remember Naruto-kun, I'm giving this house to you. Which means that you will be responsible for keeping it clean and making sure that nothing gets damaged or stolen ok?" Hiruzen said, giving the small four year old boy a slightly serious look. Naruto gave him a small nod but said nothing.
"Don't try to use the stove or cook anything for that matter, someone will come and give you food three times a day every day. And I will give you a weekly allowance of 50 yen, for you to use as you please" Naruto gave another small nod.
"What are these for?" Naruto asked finally, speaking for the first time since he had left the hospital. He raised his hands to show the white gloves on them.
"I'm sure by now you have noticed that you are 'special' or so to speak" Hiruzen began, earning a confused and slightly hesitant nod from Naruto.
"You my boy have an amazing gift, a gift to control and produce Ice at will. Unfortunately as you are now you can't control that gift and unconsciously cause things to freeze when they come into direct contact with you. That's where these gloves come in. They will help you to have some control over your powers and will allow you to interact with things without accidently freezing them" Hiruzen gave Naruto a kind smile. He was happy that Jiraya had come up with a way to help Naruto with his powers after he had heard about them.
He created chakra restraining seals in the gloves, but unlike the usual chakra restraining seals that would completely cut off the chakra circulation in the body. The seals he had created suppressed a small amount of chakra that was circulating in his body, specifically his hands. However, this did not stop him from freezing anyone who touched him; it only allowed him to touch things with his hands without freezing them and help suppress his overly growing chakra reserves.
Naruto looked at his hands for a second and looked up at the Old Kage
"Thank you" He said silently, looking away from the old man as he did so, to hide the tears that were threatening to fall from his eyes.
Hiruzen gave a small heartedly chuckle "Anything for my favourite grandson, now how about we explore the rest of this building and get you acquainted with your new home"
-flashback End-
That had been two days ago, and since then he hadn't seen his grandfather again. True to his grandfather's words, someone did come to give him a meal every day, three times to be exact. It was a purple haired woman who always wore a white Neko mask that hid her face.
In the six times he had seen her she had never said a single word to him, or even interact with him in any meaner. She would bring his food and would leave the moment he finished eating it. A small part of him was disheartened at how she ignored him just like everyone else in the village, but a bigger and more dominant part of him wasn't all that fazed with it and didn't care. He was just slightly relived that he couldn't sense any negative intentions, or emotions directed at him from her.
Aside from the visits of 'Neko' as he had named her in his mind, nothing else had changed in Naruto's life, well not really nothing. When he had decided to give up on life and join his parents in the other world of the dead, that moment when he was about to kill himself and be done with it, Naruto had discovered something about his powers.
With his powers, he had constructed a kunai knife, even though said weapon had failed to do its job and had shattered like glass a mere seconds after its creation. It still brought many questions and spiked his curiosity.
For what seemed like an eternity he looked at both his hands, if he could create a kunai knife, what else could he create? And could he create it again or was it just a onetime thing? A picture of the same blue kunai he had created back then appeared in his mind, and to his sheer amazement pure white snow gathered in the palm of his right hand, swirling and twisting. This only lasted for more than a few seconds before it hardened and started to take form.
Naruto watched on curiously as the snow, now ice, started to form into a beautiful deep blue kunai knife with a very sharp and deadly looking, glowing blade. He held the kunai, which was small enough for him to get a good grip of the handle, tightly in his hand and could feel, to be frank, like the kunai was alive, as though it was small piece of him. His eyes narrowed slightly.
'I wonder-'he threw the kunai in his hand as hard as he could at the wall in front of him.
Much to his surprise and awe, the moment the kunai hit the wall it didn't shatter like glass like the first time he had used it, on himself. Instead, it pieced right through the walls. He stood up and walked out of his bedroom and into the small living room.
His eyes widened slightly when he saw the kunai that he had thrown lodged deeply into the wall directly opposite to his bedroom, with only a small part of the handle being visible. The kunai had cut right through his bedroom wall and flown straight into the opposite room, which was the living room, and stopped when it hit the walls in that room.
'I wonder how I'm going to remove it' he thought to himself as he looked at the kunai which was at his eye level.
The only way to get it out was to dig around the kunai to get a better grip on it and pull it out. He looked around his living room for anything to use and frowned when he didn't find anything sharp enough for the deed. An idea suddenly struck him, he raised his hand and a swell of snow appeared in it. After the snow disappeared, a replica of the kunai he was trying to retrieve appeared in his hand.
He inspected the kunai for a second and saw that it was the exact replica of the kunai lodged in the walls. A small smile crept its way across his face, just as he was about to dig into the wall with his new kunai a small explosion startled him, halting him in his tracks.
"Oji-san?" Naruto asked as he turned around. And sure enough there stood the old Kage, garbed in his usual attire, which consisted of a large red hat and long white robe.
"Good to see you too Naruto-" Hiruzen froze when he saw the kunai in Naruto's hand "-what are you doing?" He asked worriedly.
Naruto looked away from the old Kage and turned to face the wall instead.
"I want to remove that" He pointed at the kunai-knife sticking out form the wall.
Hiruzen sighed in relief; he was worried that Naruto was about-he cut himself off, not wanting to think further of the horrifying matter.
"How did it get in...and where did you get such a kunai?" Hiruzen asked. He knew where the kunai had come from, after all he had seen Naruto create it days ago. But he wanted for Naruto to open up to him more and trust him.
"I threw it and it got stuck" Naruto stated, he paused and looked down at the kunai in his hand "I created them also".
Though he did not show it, Hiruzen was very glad that Naruto had been upfront and honest with him. Even if it was about something as trivial as where he had gotten a kunai from, to him it showed that Naruto was not shutting himself from everyone.
"Created it? Can you show me how?"
Naruto raised his left hand and swirl of pure white snow appeared in it. When the swirled cleared, behind it was a replica of the kunai-knife if his left hand.
"May I?" Hiruzen asked, sounding very astonished.
Naruto nodded his head and handed the kunai to the old aged Kage. The moment Hiruzen touched the kunai, his eyes widened a bit and he instantly let go of the kunai.
'What was that?!' Hiruzen thought in alarm. He cast a wary glance towards the kunai he had just dropped.
"Are you ok?" Naruto asked after seeing Hiruzen's reaction, a rare look of worry appearing on his usually stoic face.
Hiruzen shook his head slightly and gave Naruto a smile. "I'm fine, I didn't expect the kunai to be so cold that's all" he lied.
Naruto didn't say anything afterwards and opted to stare at Hiruzen, waiting for him tell him what he had come to see him for.
"I came to see you were doing...how do you like your house so far?" Hiruzen asked.
Naruto looked away from him and looked around the living room they were in. After a few seconds he responded.
"It is nice...thank you"
Hiruzen chuckled "Don't mention it my boy, like I said anything for my favourite grandson. Now why don't we had out for a little work, there is something that I want to show you that I think you might find very interesting" Hiruzen suggested.
"No" Was Naruto's instant reply.
Hiruzen's smile did not falter. "I guess that's ok...sad really and here I wanted to show you one of the best ramen shops in Konoha"
Naruto whipped his head around to face Hiruzen so fast that it made an audible 'snap!'
"Ramen?" Naruto nearly shouted.
He had only eaten ramen two times, first time when the matron at the orphanage had given them all (him included for once) ramen as a treat. The second time was when his Oji-san had come to visit him, carrying with him the heavenly food in a bento box.
Each time he had eaten ramen, he had loved it, no he became addicted to it. He had never tasted anything so delicious in his entire life-short as it may be-and the prospect of eating ramen again was VERY welcomed one.
"Ok"
"Ok?" Hiruzen repeated with an all knowing smirk on his face.
"Let's go" Naruto said with a hint of excitement in his voice as he made his way towards the door.
'Just like you...Kushina' Hiruzen thought sadly, looking at the retreating form of Naruto.
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The duo, Hokage and boy, approached a small stand with kanji 'Ichuraku Ramen' written on a white cloth hanging over the small shop. Naruto stopped just a few mitres shy of the ramen shop.
Seeing this and knowing the reason for it, Hiruzen placed a comforting hand on Naruto's clothed shoulder. Naruto looked up and saw his Oji-san giving him smile, he always seemed to be smiling, he noted.
"Come on, we've reached our destination lets go in" Hiruzen said, still Naruto did not bulge. A small sigh escaped his mouth "The owner is very kind Naruto, he won't kick you out"
Naruto stared at the shop for a little while longer, he really wanted to believe the old man but after being kicked out so many times out of every shop he had ever entered, he knew all too well just exactly how this was going to play out. Oji-san or not, the shop owner was going to kick him out.
"You wouldn't want me to go in there alone would you?" Hiruzen said, faying a mock hurt face.
Naruto shook his head and with a bit of hesitation, walked into the ramen shop. The first thing that Naruto noticed or rather smelled was the very strong, intoxicating, aroma of ramen in the air. The second thing he noticed where the roles of stools in front of an orange-red counter.
Behind the counter was an aged man wearing white robes and a white chef's hat. When the man saw just who had entered his store, his eyes widened and instantly he bowed his head.
Hiruzen, seeing this, waved his hand casually "None of that now Teuchi-san, I'm the Hokage only in my office" he said with a small laugh at the end.
"Hai Hokage-sama...so what is it that I can get for you today?" Teuchi asked.
"Well why don't you ask Naruto-kun here? I'm treating him to the best ramen in the village"
Teuchi looked besides the Hokage and saw a little white haired kid with the most startling blue eyes he had ever seen staring blankly at him. The kid was wearing a plain white shirt with grey shorts and blue shoes, this made him gasp lightly. Considering how cold it was outside, he wondered how the child was not quivering like a leaf right now.
"Well I'll be..." He began, Naruto looked on as Teuchi head fell, his shoulders started to shake. He suddenly looked up, looking directly at Naruto with fire blazing in his eyes. "A NEW CASTOMER! AYAME! PREAPER OUR RAMEN SPECAIL, WE'VE GOT A NEW CASTOMER!" He shouted excitedly.
"I'll be out in a sec!" A voice, belonging to a girl, shouted back from behind the shop. A few minutes later, a girl no older than 8 years old appeared from behind the shop with a steaming bowl in her hands.
She put the bowl in on the counter, right in front of Naruto, and started at him expectedly, not muttering a single word. All eyes turned on Naruto, watching him closely, waiting for him to eat the bowl of ramen.
Naruto muttered a small "Thank you" before he grabbed the two chops sticks that were placed beside the bowl. He dipped the chops in the bowl and grabbed some noodles with them; he brought the food to his mouth and stopped just a few inches from his face. He looked up from the noodles in his hands and looked at the two people who had given him the food, the two, father and daughter, quickly nodded their heads in encouragement.
Not wasting a beat, he placed the food in his mouth. Naruto had eaten a few things in his life that he could honestly say were delicious, ramen being the top amongst them. But this, this pushed past the boundaries of what could describe as delicious, never in his life had he ever eaten something so good before. Not even the ramen he had eaten previously could even hope to compare to what was in his mouth!
Within the blink of an eye the bowl was empty, and a very hungry Naruto could be seen holding the bowl with both his hands towards the chef.
"More!" Naruto nearly shouted; stunning all the occupants in the room, two for finishing the ramen so fast and the other for actually speaking so loudly.
"B-But..how did you...when did you.." the girl stuttered incoherently.
Both Hiruzen and the ramen started laughing, "I guess that means you like it" Teuchi said between laughs. "Ayame-chan, prepare another bowl ramen for the boy"
"Hai Tou-san!" Ayame exclaimed, having gotten off her shocked state, and moved to make more ramen.
"That's my daughter, Ayame, she's currently training to be a chef just like her old man" Teuchi said.
Hiruzen nodded his head sagely "Starting them they are still young...I can she is really passionate about her job"
"That she is...she might be young but already she can cook ramen almost like a pro...if I'm not careful she might surpass me in a few years from now take over the shop" Teuchi said, looking proudly at his daughter.
"Well the young generation is supposed to surpass the older generation after all" Hiruzen added.
"Done!" Ayame exclaimed, cutting the small chatter between the two adults.
Naruto wasted no time in devouring the bowl of placed in front of. After finishing the ramen, in record time, he looked up to ask for more but found the ramen chef busy talking to the old man and the girl nowhere to found.
"Are they real?" A voice spoke up besides Naruto, scaring the life out him.
He turned his head and the ramen girl seating besides him, staring right at him with curiosity clearly written on her face.
"Oh sorry I didn't introduce myself...my name is Ayame Ichuraku, and the old man over there is my father" She pointed at the Teuchi, who muttered "I'm not that old" under his breath, however everyone heard him.
"And you, what's your name?" She asked.
"Naruto Uzumaki" Naruto responded back quietly.
"Unfortunately I have to go now, Naruto-kun would you like to stay here or should I take you home instead?" Hiruzen said as he stood up from his seat.
Naruto shook his head and-with some difficulty-got of seat. He grabbed Hiruzen's hand..
"Wait!"Ayame suddenly shouted. She jumped off her stool and ran to the back of the store. After a few seconds, she appeared to everyone's view holding something red in her hands. She approached Naruto and handed him the red thing in her hand. c
"Here" she said.
"What is it?" Naruto asked, only to see it was a scarf.
"A scarf...you look cold and well I-I just wanted to well..take it!" She all but shoved the red scarf into Naruto's only free hand.
Naruto accepted the scarf and thanked Ayame, then the two disappeared in a swirl of leaves.
"His cute isn't he?"
"Yeah..." Ayame agreed off without a second thought, her eyes widened in in shock and blood rushed to her face when she realised just what she had said. "Tou-san!"
Teuchi could only laugh
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Naruto walked through the snow covered busy streets of Konoha, ignoring the glares and fearful looks he was receiving like usual. As he was walking, people would move out of his way, some were going as far as to push others out of their way to get away from him. With the ever present detached look on his face, Naruto made his way across the village to his destination.
After walking past the many sectors and house of Konoha, he had finally reached his destination. Not sensing anyone (aside from Neko) using the area, Naruto walked towards the empty training ground. He struggled slightly against the snow, which was reaching his knees, as he made his way towards the three training stumps in the middle of the training ground.
After making the laborious journey, for him, he stood about 100 metres from the training stumps. Two kunai appeared in his hand and just like he had seen several ninja do it before, Naruto flung both kunai towards the stumps with both hands. Not too surprising, to anyone but him, both kunai missed their targets and flew harmlessly past the stumps, missing all three by a margin.
Naruto tilted his head slightly in confusion; he had done exactly the same thing as the other ninja when they had thrown their kunai. Two more kunai appeared in his hands and just as he had done previously, he threw the kunai and just like the first time they both missed, infect their aim was even worse than before!
Naruto repeated this several times, all throughout getting the same if not worse results. Getting annoyed, Naruto started throwing kunai after kunai in quick succession and as another set of kunai metalized in his hands, a voice stopped him
"You're doing it wrong" The voice, clearly belong to a child and girl adorned from behind him.
Naruto froze for a second in surprise, having not felt the person approach him, but did not respond or even turn around to see who it was. He ignored the girl and continued with what he had been doing, for several more minutes Naruto continued throwing kunai after kunai, all missing their intended targets.
The sound of metal cutting through the air was all the warning Naruto got before he heard three 'THUMB's. He looked at the three stumps in front of him and saw three metallic kunai lodged at the centre of each stump.
"Look you can be all stubborn as you want, you're still not going to hit anything" the girl spoke up again in an annoyed tone.
Naruto's eyes narrowed slightly but did not respond, he started throwing more kunai at the stump faster and wilder.
"WILL YOU STOP AND JUST LISTEN TO ME AL-"
"Shut up!" Naruto said finally, closing his eyes tightly and opened them a second later when he heard the girl behind him gasp.
The sight that greeted him when he opened his eyes made his stumble back in surprise. It seemed that sometime during his 'training' it had started to snow and now all that was frozen in mid fall. The dozens of kunai he had just thrown were also frozen in mid air.
"H-How a-are you doing t-that?" The girl stuttered as she asked this.
Naruto didn't respond back, he stared with wide eyes at the frozen scene in front of him. After a few seconds he spoke
"I-I don't know"
He raised his hand and touched one of the millions of snowflakes around him and to his surprise, everything started moving again. All the kunai missed their target and the snow continued falling.
For a few tense seconds the clearing was silent, the only sounds that could be heard were that of the wind blowing and the occasional chipping of birds. That only lasted for a few seconds until-
" . !" the girl behind Naruto shouted, drawing out every word.
Naruto turned around to see the person behind him and saw that she it was a girl that was slightly taller than him. She had brown hair that was tied in four buns that matched very well with her dark brown eyes. For her clothing she was wearing a pick sweater with a yellow shirt inside, and dark blue pants.
The girl gave him a large beaming smile and rushed towards him with stars in her eyes.
"That was sooo awesome! How did you do that? How did you create those kunai? Can you show me how to do that? Please teach me how you did that! PLEAAAASE!" The girl pleaded with her hands held together.
Naruto took a step backwards due to the very close proximity of the girl to him, this unfortunately caused him to trip in the snow fall backwards. However, instead of falling backwards like he expected to, he felt something-akin to a wall-press against his back, breaking his fall.
After straitening himself up, Naruto looked back at the wall that had saved him from falling and saw a thin-blue wall made of pure ice there. The girl squealed loudly and moved to inspect the ice wall.
"It's so thin yet-"she took out a kunai, from kami knows where, and hit the wall with it"-not even a scratch" she said this as she repeatedly stuck the wall with her kunai.
After waiting for the girl to stop ogling at the wall, which she did not, Naruto finally spoke.
"Who are you?" He asked just loud enough for her to hear him.
The girl stopped what she was doing and blushed. "Oh sorry about that, I get over excited sometimes. My name is Tenten" she stretched her hand to greet him.
Naruto stared at the out stretched hand in confusion, was he supposed to do something? Seeing that the boy in front of her was not responding the gesture, Tenten brought her hand back. An air of awkwardness surrounded the two as neither was willing to say anything else.
"..."
"..."
"Well?" Tenten asked, breaking the ice.
Naruto tilted his to the side in confusion, "Well what?" he asked with a raised eyebrow.
(sigh)"Aren't you going to introduce yourself?"
"Why?" Naruto asked, generally confused
A tick mark appeared on Tenten's forehead. "Because its common courtesy to do so!" She all but shouted out.
"Oh" Was Naruto's only reply
"..."
"My name is Naruto"
Tenten smiled happily, "See that wasn't hard now was it?". Naruto shook his head.
'It was a rhetorical question' She thought with a sweat drop.
"What are you doing here?"
"I'm joining the academy next year, so I'm training to become stronger. That way next year I will have an advantage over the other students and be ranked top of the class"
"Oh" Naruto responded back. He turned around and started throwing more ice kunai at the post, completely ignoring Tenten.
"Look, you're throwing them incorrectly. You shouldn't stretch your hand out like that...just look how its done ok" Tenten took a step forward and threw two kunai at once. However, only one of the kunai hit the stump.
"Umm, I'm still training so my aim isn't all that perfect yet" she laughed, clearly embarrassed.
Naruto tried imitating what Tenten had just done but still couldn't hit his target.
"How do you do that?"
"I just throw them and-"
"No, I mean how do you create those kunai, with ice?"
Naruto shrugged his shoulders and created another kunai in his hand "I just think about a kunai and it gets created"
Tenten closed her eyes and her face scrunched in concentration. After a few seconds she opened them and sighed disappointedly.
"I guess I can't do it"
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"Anything to report Neko?" Hiruzen asked the kneeling ANBU in front of his desk.
"No Hokage-sama, aside from learning how to create ice contracts nothing about him has changed" Neko, still kneeling down, responded in a monotone tone.
Hiruzen sighed "Keep watching him and report anything..."
"Hokage-sama" Hiruzen gave a small nod "I have reason to believe that Naruto-san might also be a sensor" Now this made old Kage raise his eyebrows in surprise.
"Oh? A sensor?"
"Yes Hokage-sama, for the past two days he has been able to locate me in all the areas I have hidden myself in"
'A sensor? Is part of his Kekkei-genkai? Minato was a sensor but his sensory skill only worked when he was touching the ground with his hands, could it be perhaps that young Naruto got a more advanced ability from his father?' Hiruzen speculated
"Hokage-sama?" Neko asked, as the Hokage had just blanked out and became silent.
Hiruzen snapped out his thoughts and addressed the increasingly worried ANBU, "That will be Neko" The female ANBU nodded her head and vanished in a leaf shunshin.
Hiruzen was about to continue with his paperwork when something in the corner of his eye caught his attention. He turned his head to look at the object and saw that the a ...He stood up and walked to the large window in his office and looked outside. The sight that he was greeted made...
The dark clouds that was ever present above Konoha, blanketing the entire village in darkness and always snowing, where parting allowing for the sun's warm golden rays to penetrate through.
It was not the sight of the clouds dissipating or the sun's rays that invoked such a feeling in old Kage's heart. No, it was the knowledge that wherever Naruto was, he was happy.
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"Hey!" Tenten suddenly shouted.
Naruto jumped slightly and responded back "Y-Yes?"
She blushed slightly and blurted out "Wanna be my friend?"
As ironic as it may sound, Naruto froze. His whole body stiffened, for what seemed like an eternity Naruto did not move.
"Hey, are you ok?" Tenten asked worriedly. She tried to grab Naruto's shoulders but a small white gloved hand grabbed her hand instead. She looked on in confusion and saw Naruto looking at the ground with his hair shadowing his eyes.
"You...you're not afraid...you don't feel like them...why?" Naruto asked quietly, with his eyes still shadowed by his hair.
Tenten pulled her hand free from Naruto's grasp, he wasn't holding it very tightly so it was easy for her to release it.
"Why would I be afraid of you? I mean you don't look scary to me" She inched forward a bit "So you wanna be my friend?"
Again Naruto did not respond, for as long as he could remember Naruto had always wished to a have friend, just one. Countless days passed and all he could do was seeing other kids playing with other kids, having fun, and he just a mere spectator. He once tried approaching some kids, at first they accepted him heck they even wanted to play with him. That was all until their parents saw them, and instantly took them away from him, warning them to never ever talk or even associate with him.
That had hit him hard; he then spent the next few days cooped up in his room at the orphanage. After that incident he never bothered trying to approach the other kids anymore, they all avoided him like a plague.
But now, standing in front him was someone else who was offering their friendship. Never in his life did he dream that a day like his one would come, a day when someone who offer their hand of friendship to him. In the back of his mind he knew that the friendship would never last, for the moment the girl's parents got a whiff of their relationship they would instantly savoir it.
However, even knowing this, he still wanted to be friends with her. He wanted to see and feel what it was like to have a friend. Even if it was only for a few hours or better yet days, just once more couldn't hurt could it?
"Hey, you don't have to yes if you don't want" Tenten said worriedly, after seeing that Naruto had not responded back to her for quite some time.
Naruto's head snapped upwards when she said that. "N-No I-I want to be friends" he responded back timidly.
"Great!...So umm what do you want to do?"
Naruto shrugged his shoulders "I don't know"
"How about we play a game then?"
Naruto's eyes lit up a bit at that "What game?"
"How about hide and seek, I'll hide and you seek ok?"
Naruto gave small nod at that, the prospect sounding very appealing to him, after all it would be the first time he would play a game with someone.
"Ok then close your eyes and count to 10" Tenten instructed
Again Naruto nodded his head and proceeded to close his eyes.
"1, 2, 3..." Tenten hastily ran away from Naruto to go hide herself.
"..." Naruto stopped counting; he only knew how to count to 3
Tenten, who hadn't gotten that far yet stopped running when she heard Naruto stop. She turned around and walked back towards the white-haired boy.
"Hey, whydya stop?"
"I can't count"
"Oh...how about we ummm" Tenten raked her brain, trying to come up with something fun for them to do. She snapped her fingers when an idea struck her. "How about we play tag instead!" she said excitedly.
Much to her disappointment, Naruto shook his head saying no.
"No? why?" She whined.
Naruto hesitated before responding back to her
"I cant"
In truth he desperately wanted to play the game, having watched other children play the game, he too wanted to play it. However he also knew the consequences of him playing, should she accidently touch him...
"Come it's very easy, look I'll even show you" Tenten pressed on.
Again Naruto shook his head, as much as he wanted to he couldn't.
Tenten pouted, she was hoping her new friend would at least play something with her but with how he was refusing everything, she doubted he would say yes to anything.
"How about I help you learn how to throw then, and in return you make more of cool things out of ice?" Tenten suggested with an excited glint in her eyes.
Naruto gave the over excited, energetic and slightly weird girl a small nod.
- few hours later-
A loud squeal throughout the small snow covered clearing. A few moments later another squeal rang again, the owner of said squeal you might ask?. A small 5 year old girl kneeling on the cold white ground looking at the object in front of her with amazement in her eyes
To her right was another child, slightly shorter than her and a year younger than the little girl. Unlike his counterpart, he was crouched on the ground staring at the object on front them with a small frown on his face.
In front of them was a single flower, now this wasn't just a normal flower. The flower was blue in cooler with pure white petals, something peculiar about the flower was that it was made of ice with the petals being made out of snow.
Tenten, unable to hold herself back anymore, touched the petals of the flower. The petals, being made with but a small thin layer of snow, didn't hold out and broke off from the rest of the flower, leaving behind a...
Tenten pouted "Awww it broke, make something else!"
Naruto shook his head and stood from his position.
"It's getting late, I have to go home soon or else my parents will start getting worried" Tenten said with small frown.
She quickly stood up and went to collect the few kunai she had thrown hours earlier to make a point to a certain white haired boy. After finishing collecting the kunai, Tenten ran back to where Naruto was standing.
"I'll see you tomorrow ok" with that said, she hastily made her way out of the clearing heading home though not before shouting "Bye Naruto-kun!".
Naruto waved his hand back at his new friend.
"Hey...you didn't teach me how to throw kunai" Naruto muttered, with a small frown on his face.
A small smile spread about his whiskered face when he remembered what Tenten had said, she would come again the following day. Tomorrow they would play again, even if all she wanted to do was to see him make things out of ice.
He looked up at the sky, noticing for the first time that there were only a few clouds there, maybe life wasn't so bad after all. He had a friend, that was all he had ever wanted.
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Well thats it for this chapter...hope you all like it ;)
Till next time
Oh! One last thing, I'm looking for a beta for this story, if you're interested please pm me.