Ice God
Chapter 3
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto
Tenten was a happy girl, she lived with both her parents-a loving pair too-she was currently training to be a ninja. Although not a prodigy like some people were saying about her classmate, a stuck up prick by the name of Neji, she was the best at weapons usage in her entire age group! And finally, and most importantly to her, she had a best friend.
Her best friend, words that she never thought she would one day get to say. It wasn't that she didn't have friends or anything like that, far from it actually. She did have friends at the academy but they were more interested in playing princess and fighting over which boy was the cutest. Whilst she herself was more into learning more about being a ninja and playing with her weapons-not the fake stuff that they hand out at the academy though.
Nobody wanted to be best friends with a tomboy like her.
And the fact that Naruto had a super duper awesome kekkie-what was it again that sensei had said it was? Well whatever it was called, her sensei had said that some people were born with special abilities unique to their family lines and all that, like the Hyuuga and their creepy white eyes for example.
That made her think about her best friend, Naruto, he had the ability to control ice. And she had never seen anyone else who could do what he could do, control Ice, which meant it was unique to him right? Now going by her line of thought, surely his parents must've have had the same ability and if his parents had the same ability then there was possibly a clan out there of super Ice wielding people like him! Which meant he had to have relatives alive somewhere?
An excited grin spread about her face, she had to tell this to Naruto! Pushing chakra into her legs, a skill she had learned not so long ago at the academy, Tenten disappeared in a burst of speed taking off to the rooftops.
-A little while later-
The first place that she checked was his house; it was a small apartment complex not too far from her own house. Easily reachable by feet and for a ninja in training like her, only a few minutes of sprinting.
Walking up to the door, she gave it a few loud knocks, just in case he was sleeping, that and she was overly excited. After a few minutes of waiting and hearing no one inside, Tenten decided on a different kind of approach.
A more effective kind of approach
"NARUTO! NARUTO! OPEN UP ITS ME, TENTEN!", well that was bound to get his attention.
No response.
Ok now she was getting irritated, 'That moron! He's probably sleeping right now and pretending not to hear me!', she fumed. It wouldn't be the first time he had done it.
This time, her knocks were louder and more aggressive "NARUTO! IF YOU KNOW WHATS GOOD FOR YOU, YOU'LL OPEN THIS DOOR RIGHT NOW" Still, no response.
She paused , normally by now he would've been annoyed and opened up the door. Funny thing that, Naruto usually did things she asked him to when he was annoyed.
"I guess he isn't home" she mulled the idea of his whereabouts in her head "Mhh I wonder where he is now...well I better start with the training ground" With her second destination in mind, Tenten took off in the direction of the training ground where their friendship had originally started.
-Training ground-
Tenten arrived at the training ground to find it, much like Naruto's house, empty. Not even a trace of him to show that he had previously been then there at least. She sighed,' well, that only leaves one last place to look...the lake.'
-At the lake-
The sight that greeted Tenten was one that made her mouth hang open in both awe and shock. The lake, a once crystal blue lake with water that seemed to glow every time light reflected off it, was frozen over. From her view point, which was on the branch of a tree overlooking the entire lake, she could even seen cold steam rolling off of it in waves.
'Well now at least I know he's here...now to find him.' She looked around the lack, hoping to spot her friend.
Spotting a mop of white hair, one of his most noticeable traits, she jumped to the ground below and took off in the direction where she had seen what or who she hopped was him.
When she finally got to him, she found him sleeping peacefully on the ground...which was now also covered in ice. 'Sheesh everything about him is associated with ice', she briefly wondered if he ever got cold or not. He was always using Ice after all.
Picking up a stick from the ground, she started poking him in the face with it. Best way to wake him or anyone up, that, and she wanted to get a little revenge for him making her search around the whole village. Unjustifiably justifiable revenge she called it. A few pokes later and Naruto giddily rose from his sleep, not before snatching the stick from Tenten's hands and chunking it away in annoyance.
"You know...you could've just called my name and I would've woken up" Naruto drawled out, pushing himself up to look at his only friend, who actually looked happy with herself.
"Yeah well that was my revenge to you for making me search around the whole village for you, you could've just told me you would be here ya know" Tenten responded in a 'matter of fact' voice.
Naruto chose not to inform her just how he was supposed to tell her he would be at the lake in the first place. It wasn't as though he had planned on it from the get go, wait, actually he had and she knew that he was always here when he came back from the academy.
"I always come here..." Naruto sighed out. Thankfully, for him, the words went unheard by the irate girl.
Taking a good look at the lake once again, Tenten turned her gaze back on to Naruto. "Why dya freeze the lake?" She asked with curiosity laced in her voice.
Naruto looked back at the frozen lake, why again had he frozen it? After mulling it over in his head several times, he remembered. That's right, he had gotten bored waiting for Tenten to return from the academy and had begun to...experiment. Long story cut short, one thing led to another and well another led to a frozen lake.
"Sooo?" Tenten said expectantly.
"So what?" Naruto responded back in his usual low, disinterested voice.
A tick mark made its way across Tenten's face. "Why did you freeze it?"
Naruto looked away from Tenten to hide the small blush of embarrassment on his face.
"I got bored"
Hearing this, Tenten hung her head in resignation, only her friend. A second later she was back to being her excited old self, and with the brightest grin Naruto had ever seen her give, she spoke up.
"Guess what sensei taught us today?" Tenten asked excitedly, almost jumping up and down.
"..." Naruto gave her blank stare, how on earth was he supposed to guess such a thing? Not only did he not know what she had been taught but Tenten was also a year older than him, meaning she was in a higher grade than him and was learning different things from him.
"Mhh you're no fun" Tenten whined, after seeing Naruto not go along with her game."Anyway remember how you told me you have no parents?"
Naruto gave a hesitant nod, not really sure if he liked where this was going. Not having parents was a sore spot for him, a subject he would rather not have if he could avoid it. However it seemed that today, today he was going to.
"Yes?"
Tenten's brown eyes lit up with joy for what she was about to revel "Well something that sensei said to us today got me thinking. She said that people with kekke-what-not are from clans!" Her face twisted in an odd way as she tried to pronounce the word that her teacher had used to describe people with bloodline limits.
"Ohk?"Naruto responded feeling slightly confused, wondering what was so exciting about that.
Tenten let out a small giggle and took hold of Naruto's gloved hand.
"Hehehehe you're not getting it silly, think about it. Ok a bloodline limit is a gift that people of the same clan share, like the sharingan for example-"
Naruto wanted to ask her just what a 'sharingan' was or why she didn't just say bloodline limit instead of that weird tongue-twisting word she had been forcing, but Tenten's enthusiasm and excitement made him stop himself, even if he was losing interest with each passing word.
"-So anyways my point is, if people with bloodline limits are from clans and you've got that cool ice power of yours. Which is a bloodline limit right?"
"...right"
"Then ultimately that means that you are also from a clan! And if you are from a clan then there are other people with the same ability as yours and are your family, since a clan is the same thing a big family. Isn't that great? It means that you have a family somewhere out there!...that's good right?"
Naruto shook his head a little and took his hands back from Tenten's grip. "No I don't have any family left, I already asked the old man and he said so"
"B-But you can't just give up like that-"
"I don't care...if I have a family or not what difference does it make?" Naruto retorted coldly. For a second it seemed as though his eyes glowed, but Tenten just played it off as being her imagination.
Speaking of Tenten, the girl was so surprised by what her friend had said she had half a mind to shout at him. She couldn't begin to fathom how anyone would so easily disregard their family like that, and another thing just who was this 'Old man' he was referring to. In all the time they had played together, more than a year now, he had not once mentioned this 'old man'. The only old man she knew in his life was the one that owned the ramen stand that he so enjoyed visiting so much.
"Don't you at least want to know who your family is?" By now Tenten was almost ventilating.
Family, something he had wanted for as long as he could remember. Family; people who would love him for all his faults and more, even with his powers And yet, no matter how hard he prayed, no matter how deeply he craved and cried for such a thing, he never got one.
Eventually, he gave up.
What use was a family to him now? He was happy now with the way his life was, he even had a family of his own now. The old man, the Ichuraku family and finally his best friend Tenten, they were his most precious people his family. So as far as he was concerned, he already had a family, blood relatives be damned.
"No" was the cold empty response that left his lips.
Tenten looked like she was about to pull her hair out. Here she was trying to help her friend out with finding his, not hers, his family and he didn't even care.
"Arg you know what, fine then! If you don't care then why should I?!" She screamed out in frustration and threw his hands in the air, a sign that she was close to blowing a gasket. She gave one last glare at Naruto and stomped off.
Naruto looked at the retreating form of his best friend wondering if he should call her back or not, but ultimately chose to not. He felt the amount of anger in her, it was best he let her calm down first before trying to talk to her again.
'And I really wanted to show her my new skill too...' he thought bitterly.
-A couple of hours later-
A very hungry and tired Naruto slowly made his way towards his favourite destination, Ichuraku Ramen. Walking around the village was always an experience for him, one that he hated, for one the people around him would blatantly ignore his presence. Secondly, almost everyone was always making an effort to move as possibly far away from his as they could manage...oh well, less chances of him bumping into people.
Walking into the ramen shop, he was instantly greeted with the strong alluring aroma of ramen, his favourite dish yet.
"Naruto-chan! How are you today?" Ayame greeted Naruto with a bright smile on her face.
In return, Naruto gave a small smile of his own and made his way to his seat, the one right in the middle. The seat was fixed such a way that it could recline both upwards and downwards, making it easier for him to seat on it on his own. It was also dubbed as 'his' because of the ever present layer of ice on the seat.
Taking his seat and pushing it so that he could now clearly see the counter and Ayame in whole, Naruto took out the appropriate amount of money for his odder and gave it to the girl. Naruto curiously tilted his head when he couldn't spot her father.
"Tou-san left the shop for a little while so I'll be your chef today!" Ayame brimmed, unknowingly answering Naruto's question. Her smile dropped a bit when she noted something missing with Naruto. "Where's your cute girlfriend? You two are always together when you come here"
"She was mad..." Naruto said simply. He broke the chopsticks apart and muttered a silent prayer and dug in into the steamy bowl of ramen. "...she left and I decided it was best give her space to cool off" He finished off.
Ayame gave him an odd stare.
"What?" Naruto asked.
"Sometimes I find it hard to believe you're actually 5 years old...so anyways what was she angry about?"
Naruto gave her a small shrug, "Nothing "
"Mah its ok if you don't wanna tell me" She placed another bowl in front of him "How's been the academy by the way, made any new friends yet?"
"It's not bad, just boring that's all...and I didn't make any new friends" His whispered out the last part to himself. Truthfully most of the kids at the academy were too afraid of him; it seemed that their parents had already told them to stay away from him.
"Well you'll make friends eventually don't give up" Ayame encouraged him.
"Thank you for the ramen Ayame" Naruto suddenly said, getting off his stool "I'll see you again next time" He said walking out.
"Bye! And I hope things work out between the two of you" Ayame shouted after.
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By the time Naruto got to his apartment it was almost dark out, the sun was just about to set and the sky was gold and red. The small boy entered his small empty house, turned on the lights and went to take a shower.
A couple of minutes later Naruto could be seen seating on his bed with his legs crossed under him. He removed the white hand gloves and placed them besides him. Pure white snow appeared in the palms of his open hands twisting and turning until it formed into a little snow person no bigger than a thumb. Repeating the same process several times, Naruto was soon looking at a dozen or so of little people in front of him.
'Now just concentrate' His eyes narrowed in concentration and a moment later, a dark purplish smoke seeped off the skin on his hands and flowed into the snow dolls.
An almost magical phenomenal occurred, the smoke got absorbed into each of Naruto's creations and the snow creations glowed an eerily purple before they each started to move as though they were alive.
Seeing this, Naruto smiled "Hello again Satsuki-chan, Gonreyu-kun and everyone. Tonight I'll finally get to do something about that village you all have been crying about..." Snow gathered in his palms once more.
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Naruto stared at the scene in front of him with both interest and disgust. Three older boys were taunting and pushing around a little girl who was crouched on the ground crying her eyes out.
"Hahahaha what are you going to do you pupiless freak" One of the bully laughed out.
"I bet you think you're too rich to talk us" another bully said, shoving the poor girl to the ground.
"N-No I-I don't-"
"N-No I-I hahahah so what, now you can't even talk to us straight. You Hyuuga think you're better than everybody else don't you?"
"Hey guys how about we teach princess here a lesson?" Another suggested.
"Yeah!" The two other boys enthused.
The girl could only whimper.
"I think you boys have gone too far" A cold voice suddenly sounded, freezing all four children where they stood.
"W-Who said that?" The leader of the trio stuttered out, taking an unconscious fearful step back.
The sound of footsteps approaching clearly rang in the small clearing as the silhouette of person approached. When the person finally became clear to view, all three boys had to double take at the sight of him, it was just a small kid wearing a black hooded jacket and brown cargo pants to match.
He didn't look that much taller than the girl they were taunting.
"It's just a kid?" One of the boys said blinking.
"Hey isn't it that freakish kid the Kaa-san is always telling us to avoid?"
"Well...what do you want freak?"
"Leave her alone" Naruto said lowly.
"Oh yeah? And what would you do if we don't...freak?" The boy provoked him further.
Almost immediately after he had said that the temperature around them suddenly dropped.
"I said... .Alone" Naruto's voice was laced with pure malice as he said this. Ice started spreading from all around him, heading towards where the four kids were.
The three bullies promptly took off, screaming in fear as they did so. As soon as the boys were out of sight the temperature turned back to normal, the ice on the ground slowly disappeared until it couldn't be seen anymore.
Naruto approached the girl he had saved and knelt down next to her.
"Are you ok?"He gently asked.
She slowly looked up at him, her eyes brimming with tears. The first thing that Naruto noticed about her was that she wasn't some random girl, no she was in the same class as him. What was her name again? Hinaya, Hinta, Hinata!
Nodding her slowly, the now identified Hinata looked at her saviour and saw a white haired, whickered boy with the deepest shade of blue eyes she had ever seen.
"Here" Naruto shoved something into the girls face, a red something to be exact.
"Get away from Hinata-sama!" A male voice suddenly shouted from behind the two kids. Faster than either of them could see, said man suddenly grabbed Naruto by the scruff of his jersey and with the ease of a seasoned warrior, threw Naruto away like a common rag doll.
"Ao no!" Hinata, realising what had happened, shouted out.
"No Hinata-sama that boy is dangerous, come on we have to go back to the Hyuuga estate" Ao said seriously, grabbing the straggling girl by her wrist.
"N-No p-please h-he sa-" Hinata tried to reason with him, but the man would have none of it.
Taking one last glance at where she had seen Naruto fly off into, Hinata was surprised to see that in place of Naruto, a heap of snow now remained. She looked around but found no traces of him, or where he had gone for that matter.
Grabbing tightly the only remembrance of her saviour-a red scarf- she silently thanked him and allowed her body guard to take her.
xxxA few days laterxxx
"Hey Naruto!"
"Mhh?"
"Guess what's going on next week"
"What?"
"Oh come on! Don't tell me you've forgotten already"
"Forget what?"
"You're hopeless you know that" Tenten gave him an disappointed look "...it's my birthday remember? I've been telling you about it since last month"
"Oh" was Naruto's immediate response. Honestly, he hadn't really forgotten her birthday-not like she would allow him to-he was just messing with her. It always amused him seeing her get worked up like this.
"Yeah, so anyways my parents are throwing me a party and they said I could invite all my friends!"
Hearing this, Naruto couldn't help but frown. In all the time they had been friends he had yet to meet her parents-and was not planning to. He supposed it was because deep down he knew that one look at who he was, and Tenten's parents would condemn their friendship, much like every other parent had done with their own children.
"Well that's good" Naruto said sombrely
Not picking up the sad tone of her friend, Tenten continued. "Now, I hope you know that everyone is supposed to bring a gift" Tenten 'hinted' to Naruto.
"Uh-ha" Naruto said offhandedly.
"And it better be a good one too"
"yeah it will" Naruto waved her off. A kunai materialised in his hand "...you said you were going to show me that new move you've been working on today"
Tenten grinned "I did say that didn't I?...hehehe sit down and prepare to be amazed by the awesome abilities of the best Kunoichi in the village...but first, mind giving me a couple of kunai? I keep losing mine and Tou-san refused to get me new ones for a little while as punishment."
Naruto shrugged his shoulders and started creating as many kunai as she would need.
"Thanks!" She took the 8 kunai and placed each one in the spaces between her fingers.
The girl suddenly took off towards the three wooden stumps in the training ground and when she was half way there, she jumped high into the air spinning. The kunai were thrown with deadly accuracy, all Naruto saw were flashes of light before they made contact with the three stumps.
Not a single one missed.
Tenten landed on the ground with a proud smile on her face. Two months, that's how long it had taken her, two whole months of endless practice to be able to do that, and the move wasn't even complete yet. She was hopping for one day to incorporate more weapons into the move. A lot more weapons.
"So? What do you think?"
"It was very cool...what do you call it?" That was the coolest thing he had ever seen his friend do, it certainly showed how much more accurate she was getting with throwing kunai. When he first met her she was good but back then she used to miss her targets here and there, now though...it was almost rare to see her miss anything at all.
Tenten hummed to herself a bit, a name, she hadn't really thought of what to call her new move. Oh well, it was her move, she would come up with a new name for it eventually.
"I don't have a name for it right now, but I will eventually" Taking hold of his gloved hand, she dragged him with her "But I've had enough of training for today...let's go have some real fun"
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"Ah Tenten, I don't really think this such a good idea"
"Come on Naruto, don't be such a spoil spot. You said your ice doesn't break right?"
"Well...not that I've seen-"
"Great, then we have nothing to worry about. Last one to the bottom is a rotten egg! WOHHOOO!"
A few seconds later Naruto heard the resulting "splash", signifying that that Tenten had reach the end of the slide.
Somehow Tenten had convinced him to create a slide, made purely out of ice. The task wasn't all that difficult seeing that all he had to do was imagine what he wanted and his powers would do the rest for him. Tenten had, again, convinced him make it as tall as a tree and so against his better judgment he had done it.
The task had been slightly tiring, he had never created something so big in his entire life, but seeing his friend smile like that had been all that much more rewarding.
Those thoughts however were now thrown out of the window as he looked at the winding and twisting slide in front of him. Why had he made it so dangerous looking again?
" .AMIZING!"
Oh yes, Tenten.
Said girl was already on her way up the slide to go at it again.
"If I get up there and you're still there I'm going to push you" Tenten threatened. Naruto had no doubt in his mind she would.
Gulping, Naruto pushed himself down the slide. To the outside observer the trip was fast and quick, to Naruto however it lasted far longer than that. Every twist and turn was felt; it was both scary and exciting. Far too quickly for his liking he soon saw the water waiting for him at the end.
"SMACK!" Naruto bounced off the water as though he had hit solid ground. He skidded a good distance away before coming to a stop atop the surface of the water.
"Naruto!" Tenten's cry made him stir.
Looking behind him, Naruto saw Tenten diving in the water heading towards where he was. He blinked slightly when he noticed a trail of ice coming from where the slide ended to where he was currently seated?
Looking down he saw that sure enough, there was an ice platform around him. Well that sucked, it seemed as though his powers had acted without his meaning to again and had frozen the water before he got into it.
Tenten soon arrived next to where Naruto was, panting quite hard. "Are you ok?" She asked him worriedly, she had seen how hard hit the ehh water? And it looked really painful, especially because he hit it face first.
Naruto created a similar platform for her to stand on to
"Yeah..." Naruto said after she had gotten settled out of the water and onto the ice platform.
"What was that?...I mean why did you freeze the water? Were you afraid of getting wet or something?" Tenten bombarded him.
Naruto shook his head "No, I'm not sure what happened either..." He stood up from his position "I'm feeling tired...can we play again tomorrow? "
"Ahhh...sure" Tenten said sadly.
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That was exactly one week ago.
Today-tonight- was the party and Naruto had absolutely no idea what to give his over exuberant friend. He had tried; Kami knows he had tried, to tell her that he couldn't come to her party. A few good pouts, a tear drop here and there and he was cornered into going.
Today he had decided against going to the academy, something he knew the old man would reprimand him for, but he had his reasons. Today was taijutsu practice day. Now, for any normal academy student this wouldn't have been a cause for one to be absent but then again he was anything but normal.
Freezing people by mere touch didn't really make him the most desirable student to teach, especially over something that required a lot of physical contact with the teacher. Sad to say, at this point he had all but missed every taijutsu class since he started the academy, again something the old man would not be happy about.
So now he had the whole day to think up of a good gift for his friend, how difficult could it be?
xxxThree hours laterxxx
Three hours of fruitless searching, going through countless stores- and getting kicked out of a good portion of said shops -later and Naruto was starting to realise that perhaps finding the gift wasn't as easy as it first appeared.
Money was not the issue here, far from it actually, problem was Tenten herself. She wasn't into 'girly-girly stuff' like the other girls her age (her words, not his) and she wanted something 'cool and sharp looking' (again, her words not his).
Add on to that, he was only five years old, and with the wisdom of a five year old(regardless of how much more mature he may have acted) there really weren't that many ideas jumping into his mind.
He had already exhausted every 'cool and sharp looking' objects he could think off. Kunai? She had those by the dozens. Swords? Pretty much every day he saw her she was spotting on a new set of sharp knives, swords etc.
Maybe he could just treat her to an all you can ramen date, he would definitely love it if someone was to treat him to that. But then again, Tenten wasn't so much into ramen as he was, so that idea was out.
A metal glint in the corner of his eye drew Naruto from his thoughts, turning to look at the object. Naruto saw it was a piece of jewellery on the display window of a shop to his right.
Interested, Naruto took a few steps towards the window and was soon looking at a very expensive looking necklace with shinny small stones all around. The middle peace, a rather odd looking green germ, was breathtaking. Never in his life had he seen such an exquisite piece of jewellery that no amount of words could ever begin to describe how amazing it was, it was, it was-was something Tenten would hate.
Sighing, Naruto took a step away from the display window and went back to his aimless searching for the right store with the right gift.
By midday Naruto had all but given up. He had searched for hours, gone through several stores and still, nothing. Nothing ever caught his attention, no gift for his friend what-so-ever. Really now, this was starting to get on his nerves.
"Grrrrrr" The sound of his stomach grumbling was Naruto's indication to halt his search and indulge himself in a quick fix.
A couple of bowls of ramen or so would suffice.
And so, with a new destination set in mind Naruto turned around and was soon on his way. Fortunately for him, he hadn't wondered too far from he lived and so he knew his way back without any issues.
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"Ho ho ho well if it isn't my favourite customer, what will it be this time Naruto-kun?" Teuchi said pleasantly, already in the process of making the dish he knew the boy would odder.
"Hello Teuchi-san...one bowl of miso ramen please" Naruto ordered after setting himself on his stool.
"Right away" not too long after the steaming bowl of heaven was placed in front of the boy.
Muttering a quick silent prayer, Naruto made quick work of the food-only to have another placed in front of him. By now Teuchi knew for curtain that one bowl of ramen wouldn't fill Naruto, it took a good 3 or 4 bowls to do that. And on his best day, even 7!
How something so small could eat so much was beyond him.
"It's a bit early for you to be out of school don't you think?" Teuchi said curiously. As far as he knew, the academy was supposed to end at 3pm for Naruto's age group and at 4 for the rest. Right now it was barely past 12.
"Mayoki-sensei was sick today, they said we could go early today" Naruto responded back with a small shrug of his shoulders.
Not picking up the small 'fib' in his statement, Teuchi accepted the response and went back to preparing his next dish.
There was a comfortable silence in the shop as the only two occupants went about with their own business, one eating and the other preparing his next dish.
"I heard today's your friend's birthday" Teuchi started, breaking the silence.
Naruto looked up from his dish and nodded his head.
"She seemed rather excited about it"
Another nod
"Especially because you are going at her party"
A hesitant nod
"You did get her a gift right?"
At this Naruto's shoulders slumped, he looked down at his half eaten bowl and slowly shook his head.
"Having trouble finding a gift for the little miss?" Teuchi asked knowingly. He too had been in this very situation, on numerous occasions actually. What, with Ayame demanding a different gift from him every year it wasn't always easy finding the right one every time.
"You want to hear a little advice from an old man?" Naruto looked up at the ramen chef with hope clearly written on his face. 'Poor soul, so young and you're already being subjected to this type of hell'
"As long as your gift comes from here-" he pointed at his heart "-then she'll love it"
Looking down at his chest, Naruto grew confused
"From my chest?"
Teauchi could only laugh at his innocence "hahahaha no no, not your chest, your heart"
"My heart?" Naruto parroted, still not getting just how he was supposed to produce a gift from his heart?
Now it was Teuchi's time to get confused. This wasn't going the way he had hoped it would. Now how was he to explain to a five year old the figurative meaning of giving someone something from the heart?
"Mhh not necessarily your heart per say. I mean as long as your gift is both honest and sincere, she will love it"
"oh...I think I get it now...thank you Teuchi-san, I know what to get her now" The boy squeaked out, jumping off his stool.
"Any time" Teuchi waved him out as he left.
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Avery nervous Naruto stood in front of a normal looking brown door with a normal looking handle to boot. Gulping, he raised a single gloved hand and knocked on the door.
Almost immediately, he heard the all-too familiar voice of Tenten responding back
"Coming"
A few seconds later and the door were swiftly opened by said girl. She was wearing a cute pink kimono with red roses decorated all around it; her hair was undone from its usual four buns. The girl frowned when she noticed that nobody was at the door.
She was about to close door when she noted something peculiar on the door step. Kneeling down and picking up the object-a box with a paper neatly folded on top-she unrivalled the paper, which was actually a latter.
'Hapi Birtday-Nauto' She giggled at the fact that he had even spelled his own name wrong.
Folding the paper, Tenten opened the box, her eyes widened slightly at what she saw inside.
It was beautiful.
Tenten pocketed the items and ran back inside her house. A few moments later she came out flying through the door, taking off towards where she hopped her friend was.
Looking for Naruto at night was like searching for a white mouse in a dark room, just look for the small white object moving about and you've got him. With his whiter than normal hair, Naruto was easily the easiest person to find at night.
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Tenten finally found her friend resting on the rooftop of his apartment complex, gazing at the night sky with an expressionless look on his face.
It took almost everything she had to not kick him in the ribs for missing her party, out of everyone there; she was hoping he would be the one to show up and here he was doing nothing but looking at the stars.
"You might as well come out, I know you're there"
Tenten almost jumped in surprise at how easily he caught her. Normally he wasn't able to sense where she was until she reviled herself.
Walking until she stood beside him, Tenten wordlessly set herself down.
There was an awkward silence around the two kids
"I wanted to say thanks for the gift, I love it" Tenten suddenly said.
Naruto arched an eyebrow at her odd behaviour; he had been expecting her to be fuming at him for missing her party.
"Sorry I couldn't make it to your party today..."
There was a small pause before Tenten responded back.
"It's ok...besides I wanted to give you my own gift in private...here, close your eyes for a second"
Not wanting to make her angry and partly curious as to what gift she would give him, Naruto complied with her request. He heard her shuffle a bit and then, something worm pressed gently against his cheek.
His eyes, which had been closely shut snapped open with such a force it was a wonder they didn't burst. Looking up to his companion, he saw a very red in the face Tenten smiling down at him.
She kissed him.
'No'
For moment it seemed as though nothing would happen. That touching his skin wouldn't freeze his best friend into a block of ice. For a second he relished in the fact that he had received a kiss from a girl, his very first kiss.
And then the colour drained from her face.
"NO!"
Chapter end
Woah, this chapter went on longer than I expected it to. Believe it or not it was originally supposed to be around 3-4K long, but well the ideas just kept on coming.
Oh yes, this chapter was supposed to have been posted last month (can't really remember when) with 'Madara's successor' but I couldn't complete it in time back then.
Yeah so this will most definitely be the last time you guys will hear from me until December...oh damn I'm going to be really busy now.
So any questions, ask away.
One last thing before I go, someone asked me about Naruto being able to sense chakra. No, Naruto cannot sense chakra only negative emotions (the ability as Kurama).
And with that I bead you all farewell. See ya!
one last last thing, sorry if there are any mistakes in this chapter, I have no beta for this story and so had to check this chapter out myself ( and believe me, it wasn't easy).