June prompt: Enemies to Lovers
When Hanabi drops down from the top of the front gates of the Leaf Village with a pack strapped to her back, Konohamaru nearly turns on his heel and leaves.
"Oh, don't look so frightened, Kono." She reaches up to pat his head and he cringes away from her.
"Hm?" Hinata inquires, tilting her head at the two.
"Uhm…" Konohamaru darts his eyes over at Naruto who is grinning obliviously. "Big bro, you didn't say…"
"Oh, yeah!" Naruto laughs, waving the group over. "Hinata invited Hanabi!"
"Big sister!" Himawari chirps as she bolts into Hanabi's arms, who gladly picks her up and twirls her.
"Oh, someone's glad to see me!" Hanabi responds brightly, holding the little girl above her head as she squeals in delight. When she plops her back on the ground, she raises her eyes to Konohamaru and furrows her eyebrows. "Unlike Kono."
Konohamaru frowns purposefully low and sticks his tongue out at her. He catches the sight of her hand by her side with her middle finger up and he snorts. "Real nice, Hanabi."
"I am nice, aw," she sings, fingers rejoining the rest as she brings her hands to her cheeks, pushing them up so her eyes squint with a mocking smile. "Nice and cute, right?"
"Yes, of course." Hinata nods, giggling. "Shall we?"
"You're happy to see me, aren't you, Hima?" Konohamaru inquires, tilting his head down at the girl. She smiles and nods enthusiastically. He swiftly plucks her up now, too, and puts her on his shoulders. "More than big sis, right?"
"Huh?" Himawari asks with all the cutest naivety in the world while Hanabi glares at him.
"I wanna be carried!" Boruto whines, pouting up at Konohamaru. Before Hanabi can sneak in, Konohamaru's already swooping the boy up as well, tucking him under his arm.
"You're gonna tire yourself out before we get there." Naruto laughs, roughing his hand through Boruto's hair.
"You'll tire yourself out before we even make it out of the Leaf," Hanabi quips quickly, smirking up at him. He huffs through his nose, refusing to pay her a look.
When Naruto asked him to come along on a vacation out to the Land of Waves, he hadn't mentioned Hanabi would be there.
Well, he figured he had been invited mostly to keep an eye on Boruto and Himawari while Naruto and Hinata had some sort of alone time while they were there. He didn't mind doing that, he enjoyed being around them. Now he knew it was a mistake to just assume things.
Hanabi and Konohamaru had never really gotten along.
Not that Hanabi ever let him show off what an amazing guy he is.
They graduated to genin at different times with Konohamaru being a year older, so they never really knew each other much before then.
Then she insisted on entering the chunin exams within a month of promotion to genin. Her sensei foolishly allowed this, and in the end, Konohamaru had been the one to beat her in the battle portion.
She never really let go of that.
And honestly, he never really felt bad about it, either.
It was the chunin exams. And it was nearly ten years ago, now!
They were adults, both in their twenties, and here she is, still holding onto something so petty. It's ridiculous, and he won't be made to take pity on her. So he simply avoided her whenever possible, kept his distance if they missioned together, tried to make excuses to leave whenever she came around.
Of course, when Naruto and Hinata became an item, that became harder. A lot harder.
He almost resented the fact she drove a wedge in his relationship with Naruto. He was his big bro before she ever came into the picture, and now she acted like she'd been there the whole time. Like she deserved to intrude on their time. It was rude!
Once, Naruto suggested they go on a date when they were in their late teens.
They responded with a resounding refusal.
"HELL NO!"
"Absolutely NOT ."
It was probably the first time they were on the same page, both hurling glares at Naruto as he laughed at them.
Then, of course, Boruto would get involved.
"Aunt Temari and Uncle Shikamaru are married…so are Aunt Ino and Uncle Sai. So you guys are married, too."
"Boruto, if I ever hear that out of your mouth again, you may have no mouth left to speak with."
Boruto was confused, so Hinata gently explained it to him.
As Himawari got older, she was expressing similar sentiments. Thankfully, she was still young and didn't really understand anything about relationships outside of the scope of her mother and father, and they were able to get ahead of it before it would become a problem.
At Himawari's fourth birthday, Naruto pointed out that Konohamaru and Hanabi were getting kind of close to each other, and Himawari immediately launched.
"THEY'RE JUST FRIENDS PAPA."
Oh, that was embarrassing.
Also a little funny, because they weren't even friends.
Yes, a vacation sounded nice, but now with Hanabi here, it was bound to be hell.
Konohamaru braces himself and ignores Hanabi's smirking gaze.
Hanabi specifically accepted this invite because Konohamaru would be there.
She never missed the chance to mess with him, no matter what.
Assigned a diplomatic mission, but Konohamaru was headed the same way on a shinobi mission? They should go together!
Taking Mirai, Boruto, and Himawari to the Tanabata festival? Hanabi deserved to go as their aunt.
Moegi inviting her out for drinks? Would Konohamaru be there? She'd be there, too.
Her cousins never let her forget the Third's scrappy grandson took her down in the chunin exams, so she'd never let him forget her, either.
Her bids to spar with him often went unanswered, and if he did answer, it was always to leave him alone.
Was it petty? Absolutely, and she knew it.
What compelled her? She reasoned revenge. But it had been nearly ten years now. Maybe there were other reasons, but she chose not to think on those. It didn't matter.
Besides, he wasn't so bad to look at. Once they got into their late teens, in fact, he became downright good to look at. So that didn't hurt. Not that she'd ever, ever dare to tell him that.
She chose to let him think that when she stared at him, it was because he looked like an alien to her.
"Give me my nephew," she demands once they were a few kilometers out, Hinata and Naruto further ahead chatting happily.
"No." He turns his nose up at her as Boruto struggles under his arm.
"Yes!" Boruto calls back, "this doesn't feel good!"
Hanabi raises her eyebrows expectantly as Konohamaru sighs, leaning down to put the boy on the ground.
"Come here, Boruto," she beckons him, "come to your favorite!"
Boruto stops and looks up at both of them, confusion on his face.
"Don't do it, Boruto," Konohamaru warns, glaring down at the boy.
"Come!" Hanabi holds out her hands. "Come on!"
"Boruto…"
"Boruto!"
"You're being weird!" Boruto cries, bolting past them to grab at his mother's skirt. Hinata looks down curiously, then looks back at the two. Hanabi huffs irritably and crosses her arms while Konohamaru chuckles.
"You think it's funny to turn my nephew against me?!" Hanabi snaps, resisting the urge to punch his shoulder while he carries her niece.
"Kind of funny, yeah." He nods, eyeing her.
"You're an asshole."
Himawari gasps and covers Konohamaru's ears. His grin is shit-eating. "Big sis! Mommy said those words are bad."
"Actually, Hima," Hanabi starts, tilting her head, "I think they're completely appropriate when it comes to certain Sarutobi's."
"Huh?" Himawari leans forward, completely confused by what she had said.
"You're dumb, you know that?" Konohamaru pulls one of Himawari's hands from his ears while looking at Hanabi. "You always talk to them like they're adults. They're kids, Lady Heiress."
"I told you to stop calling me that."
"Lady Princess? Princess Heiress? Or just princess? You act like one."
"Big sis is a princess!" Himawari chimes in brightly, beaming down at Hanabi. Despite her frustration, she smiles up at her niece.
"Regardless, you're not good with kids," he points out, "you frighten them."
"Himawari." Hanabi reaches up for her niece and pulls her off of Konohamaru who doesn't put up much of a fight. She settles her on her hip." Do I frighten you?"
Himawari is silent for a moment as she tilts her head. "Yes."
Konohamaru howls.
"What?!" Hanabi gasps, "why?!"
"When your eyes get all big and pop." Himawari points up at her face. "But I still love you!"
Hanabi sighs, shaking her head. She sets the girl down, ushers her away with a, "go to your father, Hima."
"Okay!" Himawari skips ahead of them to catch up with the rest of the Uzumaki's.
"Told you." Konohamaru smirks that ugly smirk, resting his hands behind his neck. "Lady Hanabi Hyuga, terrorizing children everywhere she goes."
"You're a dick," she huffs, looking away, "and soft. Maybe they love you so much because they can tell you're just a weak idiot. They can take advantage of you."
"That's harsh." He raises an eyebrow. "Wasn't so soft when I took you down in the chūnin exams..."
Now she punches his arm and he recoils, hissing. "And you've never given me a rematch. I would bury you if you did, and that's why you always say no."
Konohamaru snickers, shaking his head.
"Coward."
His laughter is quickly cut off and he frowns, glaring at her. "Don't go there."
"Go where?" she asks, innocently pulling her hands behind her back to clasp. "Point out that you're afraid? Afraid of the big bad Hyūga? Because you know she'd beat your ass?" His face is quickly turning red and it brings her a high amount of amusement. "You are a coward!"
"I'm gonna go ahead and quit this conversation now, before I do something I regret."
"Mhm. Coward."
"Hanabi…"
"Hm?"
"You're a bitch."
Now she laughs, loudly. "Excuse me?!"
Konohamaru stares at the ground with wide eyes.
Did that really come out of his mouth?
Couldn't be. He'd never—
"Yeah, I said it."
Oh gods. I'll be dead within minutes.
Hanabi clicks her tongue and he feels her eyes boring a hole into him. "You're right."
"What?" He looks up, furrowing his eyebrows in confusion and anger. "The hell?"
"When did you grow balls, little Sarutobi?" She punches his arm lightly now, almost fondly, smirking up at him.
Konohamaru contemplates for a moment. "Moegi says that term is outdated."
"Oh, right. We're saying ovaries now."
Now Konohamaru laughs, feeling a little more relaxed. "Uh—sorry. I didn't mean it."
"Sure you did." She doesn't look at him. "And I mean it, too. You're a coward."
Konohamaru glares at her as she skips ahead to catch up with her sister.
Never mind.
A few hours later after avoiding interacting with her, halfway to the Land of Waves, they stop at a little village that specialized in tourism. Everything one could need for a trip to the coastal city: beach balls, surfboards, floaties, sunscreen, sand toys, and more. Hinata and Naruto left the kids in their care while they went to inspect the food stands.
Konohamaru has a funny idea.
"Since I'm your favorite," he declares, causing both kids to look up at him as they stop in front of a bright, colorful toy store, "we're gonna go in there and I'm buying you each whatever toy you want."
"Really?!" Boruto gasps, and Himawari is already bolting into the store.
Hanabi lowers her eyes at him, he can see it in his peripheral, and he smirks, ushering Boruto in.
They follow the kids as they inspect toy after toy until Himawari lands on a large, stuffed giraffe.
"This one!" she proclaims. It's bigger than her. Konohamaru frowned.
"Well, actually…that's kind of big to be carrying around, Hima. We'd have to carry it back…"
Hanabi cuts in, "I'll get it for you, Hima."
"Yay, big sister!" she squeals as Hanabi picked it up.
"Since I'm your favorite," Hanabi speaks mockingly at Konohamaru as she crouches down, pushing the giraffe's face to Himawari's cheek and making a kissing sound, "right?"
"Yes!" Himawari confidently says, throwing her arms around the giraffe.
"You're carrying it," Konohamaru scoffs, rolling his eyes.
"No, you are. You are the one who offered." Hanabi shoves it into his arms and then goes after Boruto.
Konohamaru holds the giraffe in front of him and glares at it.
As Konohamaru pays for the toys the kids picked out, they exit together, and Hanabi beckons them. "Big sister is going to get you two ice cream!"
Hanabi smirks at Konohamaru's look of disapproval.
"Ice cream, too?!" Boruto yells, eyes filled with wonder. Hanabi nods enthusiastically, leading them to an ice cream stand.
Boruto immediately points at the last item on the menu, a picture of a waffle cone topped with five different colored scoops of ice cream, whip cream, chocolate drizzle, sprinkles, and a cherry. Hanabi grimaces, avoiding Konohamaru's knowing look. "Uhm, Boruto…you'll never finish it, and you'll get a tummy ache—"
"I'll get it." Konohamaru steps in, pulling out his coin pouch and Hanabi purses her lips, squinting at it.
"YES! Big bro for the win!" Boruto fist-pumps. She catches Konohamaru biting back a laugh as she scowls.
"Since I'm your favorite," Konohamaru speaks in the same mocking tone she had used as he grasps the cone, then crouches in front of Boruto and offers it forward, "right?"
"Oh yeah!" Boruto greedily grabs the cone out of his hands and immediately bites into it.
"He's going to be sick," Hanabi growls toward him as she passes off a cup of strawberry ice cream to Himawari.
"And you'll clean it up. You are the one who offered." He looks at her, his grin wide.
Somehow, they had spent a good hour playing this game, indulging the children in too many presents and sweets until Hinata hastily collected them, scolding them for their recklessness.
They promptly broke off from one another without kids to look after, and Konohamaru finds himself inspecting a jewelry stand outside of a shop Hinata had gone inside with Himawari and Boruto. He examines it closely, trying to find the cheapest thing possible to bring back Moegi, who had insisted he find her a souvenir. He may like her better than Hanabi, but he wasn't about to drop a chunk of change on some stupid accessory for her.
Then he hears whistling next to his head and a loud thud. On instinct, chakra begins flowing through his extremities as he jerks up to find the attacker—someone coming for Naruto?
His mouth drops open at the sight of Hanabi on top of a restaurant, crouched next to its chimney, grinning down at him.
"Oh my," the woman running the stand whispers, having gone pale white at the attack, "is that a kunai? You—" She pointed at Konohamaru's headband. "—shinobi! Leave, take your business elsewhere!"
Konohamaru ignores the woman as he turns to Hanabi, folding his arms. "Really, Hanabi?"
She snickers and hops from the roof of the restaurant to the roof of the shop next to the jewelry stand. "Fight me, Konohamaru Sarutobi!"
"You're insane!" he yells back, instinctively reaching for his satchel, "we're in civilian territory!"
"Spar, then!" she demands, standing tall with her hands on her hips. "Don't be a coward!"
"You're gonna learn a hard lesson if you keep saying that shit," he shoots back, leaping onto the roof to shove his fingertip into her forehead. She promptly grabs the finger and twists, hard.
"Come on, Honorable Grandson." She uses her other hand to grab his shoulder, forcing him down as he growls in frustration. "Teach me a lesson."
Then she's on the hard ground below them, back slamming loudly. Everyone in the center of the village freezes.
He hops down and promptly puts his foot on her chest to restrain her. "Stay down, little Hyūga."
"Oooh." He didn't expect the giggle and also didn't expect to end up crashing into the jewelry stand.
No souvenir from this little village, he supposes.
Hanabi feels excitement bubble in her chest as she hops to her feet. She knows her eyes must look unhinged as she marches toward where Konohamaru lay in the broken wood. She plucks a sack of coins from her satchel and drops them in the old woman's hands without even paying her a glance.
"This—this is unacceptable!" she cries. Then she opens the sack and her jaw fell. She promptly closes it, humming.
"You're deranged," he breathes as he peels himself up, all eyes still on the pair.
"Coward, coward, coward!" she proclaims far too proud, beaming at him as he stomps towards her, chakra flaring around his hands. She skips backward, ducking as he attempted to swipe at her. "Hit me, come on!"
She laughs as she continues dodging his attacks, fully enjoying the way his face becomes nearly purple with frustration. Just as he thinks he's about to get a hit in, she stabs her fingers into his side with a little chakra and cackles as he buckles.
But that had apparently been an act, because he immediately rolls forward and grabs her legs, forcing her to go tumbling into another stand, the wood cracking under her body.
He pulls himself up, but she's already up, too, and tackling him back down. She swings her legs over him and focuses chakra in her palm to close a chakra point. She gasps as he grabs her wrist and jerks his knee up, pushing the flat of his foot right into her chest to throw her backward.
"Shit!" she curses, skidding on her heel as he sprang to his feet.
"You're gonna regret this, Hanabi!" he warns, pulling his hands together to start creating that familiar blue ball of chakra.
"Don't think so!" she calls back, dipping her stance with her palms out.
"Raseng-"
"Rotat-"
Hanabi gasps as she feels herself yanked by the collar, and in a blur, she's being thrown to the ground in an unfamiliar area. She darts her eyes around, finding Konohamaru in the same position next to her, then—Naruto's angry face, right in theirs.
"The hell are you two doing?!" Naruto demands, reaching out with both his bandaged hand and human hand to jab their foreheads. They both groan and reach up to cover the hit spot.
"She started it—"
"He was being—"
"I don't care!" Naruto announces, straightening back out. "Whatever it is you two need to do, get it out of the way—WITHOUT civilians around!" He turns his back to them as he heads back to the little village. "Catch up when you're done, and don't come back until you can be normal human beings with each other!"
"That's great—" Konohamaru huffs as he climbs to his feet, "just great, Hanabi! Look what you did! You're a damn psycho—"
"I'm not done!" Hanabi hops to her feet, stomping up to him. He glares down at her, shaking his head. He watches as white chakra flares around her hands and sighs, grabbing her wrists to pull them apart.
"I am."
"No!" Her voice turns almost whiny as she tore her hands from his. "Fight me!" She reeled her hand back. "I demand it!"
"I know you're used to people doing whatever you say," he says as he blocks a hit, stepping backward, "but I'm not one of your little subjects!" Another hit, and his frustration's about to bubble over. "Hanabi! Knock it off!"
She doesn't respond as her hits came faster and harder and he finally letsout an exhausted groan, grabbing her forearm and twisting it.
"Don't make me put you down like a damn dog," he growls, shoving her toward the ground.
She immediately rolls over, propping herself up on her elbows, and winks. "Try it, babe."
"Babe—?"
That was a mistake. She catches him off guard, and now he's being thrown right into the base of a tree.
Konohamaru is done.
If she wants him to put her in her place, then he had no choice but to oblige.
They went on like that for far too long, probably, but Konohamaru had no time to think about it because Hanabi really was a better fighter now.
She had been good when they battled in the chūnin exams, but she was truly powerful now. That gentle fist was no joke, he was just glad she hadn't been able to close his primary chakra point. He briefly wondered whether she was intentionally avoiding it, but quickly decided that was certainly impossible. She'd have closed it straight away if she could, so he continued protecting his chest as they gradually became battered and bruised.
Finally, after what felt like hours, he has her pinned on the ground. He uses his shins to keep hers down (so she couldn't kick) and shoves her wrists into the earth above her head (so she couldn't punch), leans down to settle his chest on hers (so she couldn't get leverage) and presses his forehead to her forehead (so she couldn't headbutt him, because he knows she'd try). It was a hold Ebisu-sensei had taught him, and while it was fairly intimate (and uncomfortable for a grown man on top of a boy to be doing), it was effective.
He feels her chest heaving against his and has to assume she felt his, too. They're both taking haggard breaths as their eye contact remained unbroken.
Then she tilts her head up and her lips were on his.
He freezes—paralyzed, really. He doesn't even realize his grip has loosened on her wrists, and—
"FUCK!" he yells as he rolls off of her, clutching his chest.
Now she's on top of him, grinning that wild grin down at him as she holds his shoulders down. "Want me to close another?"
"Cheater!" he gasps, rubbing his chest, realizing that it wasn't his primary chakra point she'd closed—but damn, it was close. "You're a damn cheat!"
"Art of seduction," she damn near purs the words into his ear, leaning in close, until their noses were touching, and his eyes blow wide. "It's part of the shinobi way, Konohamaru."
"That was sexual harassment."
"Oh please!" she laughs, pressing her forehead against his, "don't tell me you didn't like it."
Konohamaru presses his lips in a thin line, glaring up at her.
Truth be told, he's not really sure if he did or not. He has no time to think about it.
Because in just as quick a motion, he grabs the back of her head and forces her to close the little distance that remained between their lips.
"Mmph—" she gasps against him, and he's…surprised that she hadn't resisted. She hadn't resisted at all.
And Konohamaru's not really sure what comes over him, because he finds his other arm snaking around her waist and pulling her flush against him. He pulls his knees up between hers, forcing her legs to straddle around his abdomen, and she's pushing down and he realizes—
Konohamaru Sarutobi is locked in a passionate kiss that Hanabi Hyūga is returning. Eagerly.
So he rolls her over and forces his knees between hers, resting his hips against hers as her arms wrap around his neck.
Is this actually happening?
He pulls the arm from around her back to grab her waist, burying his fingers there as her nails dig into his scalp, head tilting and lips parting. His head goes cloudy as he feels her tongue swipe against his lips, forcing them to immediately part for access on instinct. He pushes his tongue against hers, letting her run hers over his top teeth—he's not sure a girl had ever licked his teeth before but finds he doesn't hate it. Then he pushes back, attaching his teeth to her bottom lip and tugging it. When she lets out a breathy moan, he bites down harder.
Once he feels her hips rock up into his is when he knows he's on the edge—of what, he's not sure, but he's going to be shoved off it if he doesn't stop this, now.
He quickly pulls his arms from her body, hands planted on the ground as he tears himself off of her. He stops to observe her in the seconds he has. Her face is flush, her lips swollen, her eyes closed, and she's leaning up as if to bring him back.
"Hanabi—" he breathes, causing her to pop her eyes open, "—what the hell?"
As if clarity had rushed her senses, her eyes turn fiery. "PERVERT!"
A/N: If you made it this far, thank you! Remember, it is NOT cringe to leave a comment on early chapters of an in-progress fic, or on any chapter of a fic that is completed. I guarantee you that if you leave a comment, no matter what, the author will be over the moon. Feedback is love, feedback is life 3