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Author's Note:Enjoy because I have no idea when I'll be updating next as I have been writing back and forth with this story and my other one. So Enjoy!
First Work out
15 games of cards, 10 cups of beverages of all kinds and 2 bathroom breaks later, I hear the upstairs quiet down to a soft thump leading from the door to the stairs. Series of footfalls could be heard from the outside of my front door and we looked where the sound are coming from and going to.
Down the steps trying to go as quietly as possible but a little misstep here and there along with loud talking and shushing until they came to the front door. Barging right in and saluted to us before heading straight for my bedroom and plopping themselves on the bed. Shrugging, I gathered the cards; put them away and gesturing for Naruto to follow me out. Up the stairs, I realized I haven't seen Naruto's place yet and that put a smile on my face. Once on the landing, I let Naruto go first so he can see the freshly built closet and wanting to see his reaction.
"Oh!" was all I heard as we stepped through his threshold and when he set his eyes on the huge closet next to his little bed, his reaction just made me smile. Eyes wide open with his mouth hanging from it hinges, Great.
I pushed him forward softly and he walked ahead to get a good look at the closet. It is an exact replica of mine. Same length and height with shelves to the far wall; This could be enough room for the clothes but I wanted to know if it could, so while Naruto is ogling his closet, I snuck out and quickly ran to my place.
"Hey, get up and grab those (I pointed to the 5 chests) and bring them up, quickly" then out again but I did hear the clones already up and moving so when I got to Naruto's, I left the door open and stood by him.
Not even the noise of my clones walking or the dropping of the chest on his floor or the scurrying about rouse Naruto from his little dreamland of excellent craftsmanship that made up his closet and so I laughed at that.
By the time Naruto actually blinked and looked around, the chest were gone, so were the clones and the clothes that I had purchased for Naruto are now hanging in his closet. He had to do a double take to see his closet filled to the brim with clothes but he did notice one chest by the foot of his bed and so looked at me questionably.
"This chest is for your accessories, so it is easily reached and you can mix and match them with the clothes you will wear. So what do you think?" hand on my hips, I waited for Naruto's reply but also looked around the small apartment. It is similar to mine, very similar, except for the room I have now and compared to the single bed Naruto has, it's still the same.
"Wow, I mean just wow, Roxanne"
"I know right" he nodded and fingered all the clothes on the hangers.
"So anyways, you get some much need rest because when 4 am hits, we will be out those doors and hitting the dirt in our training, that is IF you still want to join?" an nonchalant tone as I can muster as Naruto spins to me with his brows raise in slight surprise.
"Really, you mean it, I can go?" Smiling I nodded and started to head out.
"4 AM Naruto and I will be waiting, Good night" a wave and closing of the door, I headed back to my place where I found all my clones already asleep on my bed. So grabbing my pjs and changing into them, I crawled over them and snuggled down for a well-rested night of sweet dreams before the early morning start.
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To say that Naruto is excited will be the understatement of the century because exactly by 4 am, loud knocking came to my door and good thing I am already up and ready, if not then I would have knocked some sense into Naruto's head for the early noise.
Opening the door to a smiling Naruto, I waved him in and went back into my room to grab something for him to use.
This little exercise will not be easy as it is not easy for me so it won't be for him. Hearing him in the kitchen, I knelt down on all fours next to my bed, and reached under to slide out a box, a black box. Opening it revealed a couple sets of extra weights, so I pick one pair up but left the box as is. Getting up, I went out to the other room and threw them on the kitchen floor with a loud thud that surprise Naruto as he squeaked like a little girl. Turning around, Naruto eyed the weights and looked up at me in question.
"Strap those on your wrist and ankles: you wanted to train like me, then you will" Going to the kitchen, I picked up a sandwich and a glass of orange juice, that Naruto made before sitting down on the table, smiling at Naruto in a sort of challenge kind of way.
Naruto looked at the weights on the floor, at me and then at my limbs to see the same kind of weights attached to them, well color wise. Walking over, Naruto picked them up…well tried to, he sort of struggle a bit but picked them up nonetheless. Walking slowly to the table, he sat down and slowly strapped them on. I just smiled the whole time while eating and drinking my OJ.
One by one on to each leg and arms, Naruto then tried to stand up but plop right back down and the chair groaned from the extra weight to it. He looked to me and tried again but didn't succeed.
I right out laugh as Naruto glared at me. "You should see your face Naruto"
"What is so funny Roxanne, I'm trying here!" Trying to guilt trip me but I shook my head and got up to go back to the room and picked up the right weight for him from the box.
"It's funny because those aren't for you, well not yet" throwing the right ones to him, Naruto caught it and felt the weight of it but still glared at me.
"That's not really funny, Roxanne"
"It is when you've seen how your face looked when you tried to get up. Anyways the ones I just threw you are the ones you'll be using until it feels like you aren't wearing them at all. The heavier ones will come next and those are the one I'm wearing right now" bringing my arms up, I showed Naruto the same weight he has on are the same ones I'm wearing, and so made his eyes grow bigger than his head, if it is possible.
"You're kidding, right?" I shook my head and sat down on my chair as Naruto unstrapped the heavier ones and strapped the right ones on.
"You're really serious?" I nodded
"Soon, Naruto and you'll be like me. Just be patient and it will come" Grabbing water bottles from the fridge, wrapping my tail around my waist, I threw one bottle to Naruto and we took off out the door.
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"So what are we doing here?" Looking around, we stood by the grand wall that surrounds the village while I started on my stretches.
"We are here because jogging come first then exercises. Usually I do about 7 miles, which is 7 times around the village because I figure it about a mile around (?) and then do 50 pushups, sit-ups, jumping jacks and whatever else. All 50 each, of course but since you are a beginner; we will do half sets each for now until it gets easier. So stretch out your limbs and then we will begin" Started on stretching his limbs took a bit of time until he just copied me and when we are finally warmed up, I jog for it with Naruto following me.
The weight I am wearing on all my limbs are 8 lbs. each and Naruto's are 2.5 each. Hopefully when the week is up then he'll be moved up to 5 and 10 for me, if we keep this up every morning.
Half way through, we are building up a good layer of sweat and keeping our breathing leveled, as Naruto is keeping up pace with me. Early this morning you won't see much people around, unless you count the ones who are also exercising this morning too and that ain't much either.
Waving to a couple with matching jogging attire, we made it all the way for the one mile mark and while Naruto slowly caught his breath, I keep on jogging on the spot as I waited.
"So want to try out for 2 or had you had enough?" That got him up and ready again
"Let's go" he started first off while I lagged behind to stifle a snigger
Catching up and jogging around is pretty much the same as the first but with Naruto really breathing hard that had me sort of worried. So when we got back to the beginning mark, I stopped while Naruto is bent over, trying to catch up on his breathing.
"Hey, Naruto are you ok, you are like breathing like a smoker or something. Are you alright"
He waved me off, so I picked up the water bottles we stashed on the sides where a small bush grows to conceal it from anyone's view. Cracking it open, I handed it to Naruto who downed half in one go and so I asked again:
"Seriously Naruto, are you alright?"
"Yeah, just that these weight are really hard to work with" Ah, extra weight got him all tired.
"Well just as well, we can end the jogging and head over to a simple training ground to do our exercises and believe me, Naruto, those will be harder than the running"
Closing his water bottle, he pocketed it and we took off to a nearby clearing that I saw on the way around twice.
"Now Naruto, like I mention before, we will be doing 25 sets of each exercises and a small break in between each set so we won't over exert ourselves, ok" he nodded and I told him to lay down and we can start.
25 pushups then break
25 sits ups then break
25 touch toes then break
25 squats then break
25 side punches then break
25 jumping jacks then break
150 in total for all and when I said finished, Naruto plopped down on the dirt like a pile of goo. I still laughed at him when I told him that this session we did is only half of what I usually do and I mention the actual total, he sputtered out his drink of water.
When he finally caught his breath and it even out, I gestured for him to stand up so we can do a cool down routine that consist of Tai chi. Giving me a weird-out look but complied. The sun and cool breeze, along with the chirping of morning birds made the scene very calming. Closing my eyes, I did what comes naturally to me when it comes down to cooling after a good workout and so unraveled my tail from its place on my waist and let it sway freely. Once in a while I hear an 'oops' or 'oh' from my sides but I didn't need to open my eyes to know that it's Naruto fumbling in his posture.
When the last of the stance came to an end and we are standing side my sides, did our breathing even out in unison. Opening my eyes, I looked to Naruto as he shook out the remaining tenseness from his muscles and I stretched out my arms high above my head while I hear all my bones crack in many places.
"Now wasn't that fulfilling, Naruto?" Sighing, he cracked his neck and nodded while smiling at me.
"That was an intensive workout Roxanne, and you do this all the time?"
"Well yeah, but this time it's because I need to so I can be ready for the upcoming exams. You need it too, if you are going to be in the same league as me and so we will keep doing this every morning before and after classes and even during the weekends, until you don't feel worn out" Picking up the water bottle off the ground, uncapped it and drank from it. Tossing it to Naruto, I began walking away slowly so he can catch up when he's finished the bottle and wrapped up my tail again. Hand behind my head, I looked up at the many clouds in the sky that are sort of covering the morning sunshine and then heard footfalls behind me coming quickly but slowed when they got nearer. A sigh escaped our lips as we walked in complete comfortable silence and enjoyed the nice morning as we walked home.
Niceness
When we got back to the building, I told Naruto to catch some Z's since it's still too early in the morning and we'll do something at noon. Rubbed his eyes while yawning, Naruto nodded and made his tired way upstairs to his place. Unlocking my door, I went straight to the bathroom as I undressed and got in the shower with the water full blast. Few minutes later, I am clean, in warm clothes and snuggling away in my comfy bed, asleep before I closed my eyes.
Hours later, since I didn't bother to check the time before heading to bed, I awoke to a quiet nervous knock to my door and I was just about to ignore it BUT then a reminder flashed through my mind to yesterday morning when the same quiet knock came. Jumping out of bed, I rushed to the door, unlocked it and swung it open to see…nothing and nobody…except a small package near my door step.
Looking to both sides of the hallway, I see or hear nothing, not even the wind and so I bent down and picked up the package. Turning it over in my hand, I can feel the texture of the silver wrapping in ripples and the black bow made it look sort of elegant. Smiling at the well wrapping that must have took a bit of time to actually wrap it carefully and thoughtfully.
Closing the door, I went back to my bed and crawling under the covers, laying the package right by my head and noticed that this one is a bit longer and thinner than the previous one. After a while, I fell asleep looking at the small bundle and kept my smile on.
I'm guessing about an hour later, I heard the knocking of Naruto and so got up, open the door and went back to bed, looking at the wrapping. I don't know why but I waited to open it.
"What's that you got there?" Naruto asked as he crawled over me and sat with his legs crossed on my bed, facing the shiny bundle.
"I really have no idea, it's just like I mention yesterday: someone knocked and this is there instead of a body" Sitting up, with the blanket around my waist and picking up the package, I held it out to Naruto to look at it. Taking it from my hand, He turned it over and over.
"It sure does look pretty though, I like the bow, you going to open it?" Handing it back to me, I eyed it good and proper before slowly and carefully slipping off the bow. Naruto actually held his breath as I unwrapped the covering without tearing right into: I wanted to keep it. Giving the paper and bow to Naruto, he carefully folded the wrapping and placed them on my night stand. Setting the thin box in between us, I looked up at Naruto and we nodded to each other before I slowly removed the top cover.
Gasp echoed in my room as we looked at the shiny object sheath in brown leather holster, with the handle carved like the head of a wolf, howling at the moon. I just looked at it, but Naruto woke up before me, so he picked it up and examined it. Unsheathing the blade, I could see that it's a double sided blade and it made it all the more beautiful. I held my hand out for it and Naruto carefully placed it in my hands while he check out the little inscription on the sides on the holster that I didn't noticed before.
'For you and only you' Naruto read out loud on one side.
'May it never wither as long as you shall live' it said on the other side.
"Wow, who ever got you this must really like you. Look" He showed me the cursive written inscription that is probably engraved by a professional. Smiling I just nodded as I didn't have anything to say about this because what does one say to another about the significance of such great gift.
Turning the blade in my hands, I felt how sharp it is and the weight of the metal told me that it's really good metal that won't dull after a good amount of use. Holding my hand out, Naruto gave me the holster in which I sheath the blade and just looked at it before putting it away in my drawer of the night stand.
"Anyways, that aside, what do you feel up to today?" Getting up from the bed and going to the kitchen, I grabbed the pitcher of OJ and poured into 2 glasses, handing one to Naruto and putting the pitcher back in the fridge.
"I don't know how about we just go visiting today. Go see Kiba and Shikamaru and see if anyone else is out and about" Taking a sip of our juice, I thought it is a good idea and said so.
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After breakfast or brunch, we got dressed in a casual way (I picked out the clothes for Naruto) and headed out to the sunny afternoon of Konoha. The market place is bustling with the Sunday afternoon crowd and most of them didn't pay us a mind as we walked the dirt, looking around.
Keeping my tail wrapped around my waist as we enjoyed the outing and made our way to the residential area where Kiba and the guys live. As we came closer, we heard a loud howl and then a bark followed by a 'Hey'. We looked at each other and continued on towards the back of Kiba's house where they usually train.
The scene before us is like this: Kiba on his back with Akamaru baring his teeth at a much larger and darker dog, that belong to a girl, woman with wild hair, smirking at her little brother.
"Kiba, get up and try that again" They didn't see us yet, so I gestured for Naruto to keep quiet while I tiptoed to the back porch and sat on the deck with Naruto to my side.
Being in tuned with dog should have told them of our arrival but then again if the only thing you are keeping your eyes on is the one being trained, and then yea, I would be distracted too. So we just sat and watched brother and sister train with their dogs.
A punch, kicks flying all over the place and lots of cursing followed by a smack is all good and fun but they still didn't notice us. After a bit, we got more comfortable against the wall of the deck and then the side doors slid open to reveal a woman, older woman, one I haven't seen before in the times we've come and visited. She's wearing a simple kimono in the shade of red and had long dark hair, not tied in a ponytail or bun, her skin is lighter than mines but her eyes is what captivated me: they were the color of yellow, like the sun with black diamond pupils, so catlike in the family of dogs.
She saw us and smiled at us as we waved at her in greeting; she then brought her finger to her lips to shush us and then disappeared again. Naruto and I looked at each other and shrugged at the weirdness of it. Until a plate of cookies and 2 cups of milk is place in front of us. So we looked up at the woman as she smiled at us, so we nodded our thanks and she went back inside but took one last look at the pair in the back yard.
I looked at Naruto in question about the woman; he just shrugged, picked up a cookie and spoke.
"Kiba's mom" shoving the whole cooking in his mouth and sipped on the milk as he chewed while I looked back towards the door and thought about how pretty Kiba's mother looked and so sweet of her to give us a snack as we watched her children fight each other.
Nibbling on a cookie, I almost hummed my approval but thought better of it as I didn't want to disrupt the training of one Kiba Inuzuka. Naruto smiled at me when I almost hummed and just held out another cookie for me. Picking that up and the glass of milk, we sat back and watched Kiba getting his ass whooped by his sister.
I guess we sat for a while just nibbling on the cookie and sipping on milk before it was time for the fighting pair to take a break and only then did they noticed our presence. Kiba looked surprised but his sister just huffed and told Kiba that was it for the day. Kiba just kept staring at us like that, like weirdo or something, and walked towards us, with Akamaru running to us and barking happily. I petted him and when Kiba came and sat on the edge of the deck, did he finally spoke:
"How long have you guys been here?"
"Well hello to you too, Kiba, we're fine by the way, thanks for asking" Naruto laughed and Kiba got out of his daze and rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.
"Sorry, just that I didn't notice you guy coming over, I was too into trying to beat my sister"
"Yeah, we noticed" Picking up a cookie, Naruto tossed it to Kiba who caught it but then noticed the plate of cookies and glasses of milk beside us.
"Where did you guys get those?" Do I detect a hint of accusation in his tone?
"Your mother" we said in unison but it wasn't enough for Kiba to grasp the concept, so I explained.
"Your mother, by the way she is beautiful, came out here, saw us and brought these over. We thanked her and she took off back inside. You don't believe us, ask her" I pointed behind him, so he turned to see his mother smiling down at us and she spoke
"I do hope you two liked the cookies, I made them myself" The softest voice I've ever heard graced my ears since my mother, I think.
"Oh we love them, they are very delicious, thank you ma'am" Naruto is so polite and Kiba's mother smiled, ruffled Kiba's hair and went back inside.
Naruto and I looked at Kiba in an 'I told you so' expression and he hung his head in apology. Sharing a smile, told Kiba he is forgiven and continued to eat the awesome cookies with Kiba retelling his tale of trying to beat his sister.
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Not much happen after that: we finished off the cookies and Kiba suggested a game of catch as he did have mitts and a ball. Akamaru stayed on the deck to catch some Z's instead, so we let him be to separate far from one corner to another to another and it might have looked strange but to us, it looked simple. Must have been all those other times we played catch when we spaced out each time we played.
After the first few throws, Kiba spoke up about the weekend: "So how is your weekend so far?"
"Roxanne ditched me to go training yesterday when the sun woke up" Really, you make it sound like I robbed the entire town and got back before he got up, and didn't tell him to come with me. Then again it was almost the same scenario. Ha!
"You went out training, but I thought you were going to take it easy?" Here we go then.
"I did BUT I was getting restless from NOT training and IF I kept it up then both of YOU would of seen how wired I would have been if I didn't go. Besides, Naruto took me out training that same afternoon" Smirking at Naruto when Kiba Shot a look in his direction.
"Naruto, it was YOUR idea to let her take it easy, why you backed out?"
"Yeah Naruto, why DID you backed out" threw the ball to him while he glared at me something fierce but I shrugged it off.
"I don't know, just that it has been more than 3 or 4 days since she got out and I remember she said that she lived for training and fighting when she first introduced herself to our class and so thought that maybe it was long enough and" He's rambling and with holding the ball, so Kiba and I shared a look before Kiba walked over and clapped Naruto in the shoulders.
"Dude, don't worry about it, if she is alright with it then you don't have to ramble off with explanations. Just cool it and no worries" Naruto looked to me for confirmation and I just gave him thumbs up with a smile. He relaxed then and threw the ball to me as Kiba patted him one more time and went back to his spot in the other corner.
Kiba told us about his training with his sister: how it gets rougher and challenging every other day when and if she's in the 'mood'. That got a look of confusion from Naruto and so I told him I'll tell him later.
By the time we got bored enough to start throwing the ball harder, we took a break and sat down on the deck. Kiba's mom, again, showed up and with cool glasses of lemonade. After ruffling Kiba's hair in affection, she took off as we thanked her and chuckled at Kiba's blush.
Chilling and sitting in silence, looking around the area that is the back yard of Kiba's house, I noticed a hill and so asked the guys if they wanted to climb it.
"Nothing up there but a good view of the town" That is a good enough answer and hauled Naruto up off the deck to drag him with me, leaving the mitts behind. Not much to pull then Naruto's not resisting and Kiba just sighed before following us up.
There is more foliage and plant life on the way up but when we got to the top, it dwindles down to just a clear grassy hill with a breeze. I didn't notice a pair of bodies on the grass until we got closer and Naruto fell over top of Shikamaru with an 'oof'.
"Count it on Naruto to not look where he is going, Sorry Shika" Kiba laughed as he sat down beside Choji, who is snoozing even though we arrived. Naruto scrambled off Shika and sat beside him, rubbing the back of his head sheepishly as I sat beside him.
"So what you guys doing up here?" Sitting up and dusting himself off, Shika asked us.
"Well I just noticed this hill when we took a break from throwing a ball at each other and thought it better to climb this then taking each other heads off with said ball" A grunt of amusement came from Shika.
"Well, this is a good place to watch clouds and with the sun and breeze, it ain't too hot or too cool" Laying back down on the grass, Shika stared at the clouds moving slowly by and all of us did the same, enjoying the warm air and sun.
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Sometime during our little chill out with Shika and Choji, we all took a nap on the grasses and didn't get up until the sun is about to set over the horizon. Using Naruto as a pillow, who is using Kiba who is using Shika, I woke up to the darkening of the sky and poked Naruto awake who poked Kiba who poked Shika and lastly poked Choji up.
"A lot of pokes going around, eh Kiba" He laughed and stretched over Shika.
Getting up and stretching the last of our muscles, we stood and watched the sun going down in a ray of oranges and purple until it is completely gone.
Taking our time going down the hill…that flew out the window when Naruto slipped and took us down with him to the bottom of the small hill. In a tangle of limbs, I laughed while Kiba shoved everyone off and Naruto is sitting on top of us, while Shika is being squished at the bottom of us all, waving his arms frantically.
"Sorry guys" Standing with his hands up in a defensive pose as Shika and Kiba looked murderous at him. I just kept on laughing as they chased him around.
A/N: Kiba's mom I haven't seen on the show or movies but it'll be nice if she looked like that. Everything else is just off my imagination.
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