Well hello! Here is a new chapter of Naruko's secret-fanfiction, which was inspired by Sailor Moon, Lego Ninjago-series, Otoyomegatari-manga, Your Name-manga, Umi ga Kikoeru-movie, and Mahou no Chocolate-series, whose rights I do not own. See you in the next chapter.
Naruko walked in the forest, until Naruko saw the of Uzushiogakure of ruins, among which Naruko went for a walk:
"Apparently I arrived here again".
Naruko picked daisies from the ground, of which Naruko made a bouquet, which Naruko took to the front doors of the tallest building in Uzuchiogakure, and placed the bouquet on the outside steps of the building in question after bending into a squat, and then put both Naruko palms together, closing Naruko eyes.
Dark clouds were appearing in the sky.
Suddenly Naruko felt chakra behind Naruko, and opened her eyes, and then stood up, turning around to see Sasuke, with Sakura standing behind her.
"Evening," Naruko said.
Even though Naruko tried to smile, so her voice was strained, and her could not move. Cold drops of sweat appeared on her cheek.
Sasuke, and Sakura stood a short distance away from Naruko in their Jonin-outfits. Naruko couldn't help, but notice their weapons, which was not a good sign.
"Evening? Is that all you can say?!" Sakura asked angrily.
Naruko was glad for the distance between them.
Sasuke stood next to Sakura, his hand clenched into a fist.
"Looks like my vacation didn't go the way I'd hoped," Naruko stated.
"STOP FOOLING!" Sasuke yelled startling Naruko, who was trying to think of something to say, but couldn't think of anything to say.
"How come your vacation didn't go the way you wanted?! Did you really think, that we won't come looking for you?!" Sakura yelled trying to get closer to Naruko.
Sasuke nodded, trying to stop himself from screaming.
"When you were little children, you wouldn't have come looking for me. And I just needed a little time to myself. I even had time to attend Gongukon to festivals held in the village, and I made such a wish there:
"Which one could express my hidden feelings better". I've had a great time during my vacation. I had time to research a lot of things about my clan as well," Naruko said quietly. "I told Tsunade-sama, that I would come back after my vacation...then at some point".
Naruko discreetly slipped her right hand into her equipment pouch, and grasped the one there, to one of the Chilli Pepper Bombers her received earlier from Tanishi.
Even though Naruko had spoken quietly, so Sasuke still heard Naruko's words.
"At some point? Naruko, you shouldn't have left in the first place. You could have at least told us about it, that you want to go on vacation. Everyone is worried about you, we are worried about you. You left suddenly barely saying goodbye. You could be gone for years. You didn't say when you would come back. Did you really think, that no one would come looking for you?" Sasuke asked, still clenching his hands into fists. Even though Sasuke spoke calmly, so Naruko still noticed that Sasuke was angry. "Granted, that we were different when we were little, but after spending time together we just couldn't help, but consider you our friend. Some even wonder that, that we have angered you somehow, and the Konoha newspaper people have already published a couple of articles about it, which has already become a scandal twice, and we became the eyes of everyone. Now we are avoided worse, than before you".
"Did you come all the way here just to accuse me of dirty scandals? If that's the case, and you have nothing else to say, so come back home. Those scandals are in no way my fault, for I have not spoken a word about them to the editors of the Konoha newspaper. I just needed some time to myself," Naruko said. "Haven't you guys ever needed time to yourself to think things through properly?"
"Of course everyone needs time to themselves sometimes. Tsunade-sama told us about your baby. Naruko, what happened to your hair?" Sakura asked looking at Naruko's black hair. Sakura is now on the verge of tears. "Naruko, come home. Talk to us. If you are in trouble, so let us help you. Don't leave us out of your problems. Have I accidentally done something bad to you? If I am, then I want to apologize."
"I'm not trying to seem like, that I don't care about you. I appreciate it, that you came looking for me. I could wait for it, that someone might come looking for me. I just didn't expect you to come looking for me. I just wanted to see this place for myself, and to travel somewhat after completing many tasks at one time after the end of the previous war. Right. This was taking care of my personal affairs," Naruko said. "I couldn't do that in Konoha, for there I would not have seen this place myself. This village must have been really beautiful before. shawl, that it was destroyed because of fear. I can't go home yet".
"WHY?!" Sasuke, and Sakura asked.
Naruko looked at her friends:
"I didn't think you would understand, considering that, that how much you sometimes took me for granted, and how you underestimate me. When will you really understand, that I should not be underestimated? Every time I said something wrong, or I did something embarrassing in your opinion, so a blow often ensued, or reprimands from you".
"Why are you talking like that? You owe us at least an explanation," Sasuke said.
Sakura nodded.
"I have personal matters to attend to. It wouldn't do in Konoha, and it does not concern you in any way, so stop interfering with them. What do you think about my feelings? I don't know exactly that, that how long it takes to take care of my personal affairs. So take care of yourself until then, until I return to Konoha," Naruko said. Naruko hoped her explanation would work for the others...but didn't think it would.
"When I left Konoha, so you said you'd bring me back to the village even, if you had to break all my bones, and forcefully drag me back to Konoha," Sasuke said starting to walk towards Naruko.
"This is a different situation, Sasuke, for I will not betray our village," Naruko said.
"Then what's the matter? If you don't tell us the reason, then we will forcefully take you back to Konoha'' Sasuke said activating his visible eye Sharingan.
"Naruko, this is not like you. You are reckless, and distracted, but you're never secretive, or a coward," Sakura said starting to walk towards Naruko with concern in her eyes, but at the same time tough, and a stern look. "What are you hiding from us?"
Naruko's feelings were really conflicted now. They couldn't know Naruko's feelings, as they clearly hadn't bothered to think about Naruko's feelings, or had Kakashi perhaps told his, and every detail of the conversation between Naruko to Sasuke, and Sakura? No. Kakashi wasn't like that, who would share the privacy secrets of others with others. Only Naruko, and Kurama knew about it, that how Naruko felt inside.
"Sakura, people sometimes need their own time to think about some things properly. That is partly the reason, why that I left Konoha. And I've actually been monitoring the security of the village from afar by sending interim reports on it to Tsunade-sama," Naruko said.
Naruko now looked at her friends coldly, hard, and with determined eyes.
It started with wind.
"Isn't there anything we can say to change your mind?" Sasuke asked.
The three legendary ninja looked at each other at the same time, when it started raining. They were waiting for it, for someone to start a potential fight.
"Indeed. This, a destroyed village doesn't mean the same to you, than what it means to me, so what do you think you know about me?" Naruko quickly threw a Chilli Pepper Bomber at Sasuke, and Sakura at the same time, as Sasuke pulled the kunai into his hand.
Kabam! The Chilli Pepper Bomber exploded sending red smoke at Sasuke, and around Sakura.
"Cough cough!" Sasuke, and Sakura coughed at the fiery smell of the Chilli Pepper Bomber, and because of that a little tear came to their eyes too.
"Thank you, Tanishi! Kagebunshin no Jutsu!" Naruko created clones, with whom her took off running in different directions so quickly, distracting Sasuke, as her could, and Sakura.
After clearing the smoke Sasuke, and Sakura looked around to see Naruko gone.
"Chili?! Where did Naruko get a smoke bomb like that?!" Sakura asked wiping her eyes. "Why would Naruko think that, that we don't understand her feelings?!"
"The Dobe misled us. Her chakra is scattered in different directions," Sasuke said, as his saw the thing in question with his Rinnegan.
"Why is this village so important to Naruko? I guess Truzu was right, when his told us that, that sometimes actions speak louder than words for an apology," Sakura thought looking at the destroyed village, where Naruko had just brought a bouquet of flowers.
Naruko ran in the forest, until her finally arrived at a small clearing. Naruko leaned against the trunk of the tree, resting a bit, and touched her stomach with her right hand.
"I need some place, where it rains," Naruko muttered.
"Then why don't you go back to Konoha?" Sasuke asked, as his arrived with Sakura.
"You guys clearly don't want to give me any time alone," Naruko said.
"Naru," Sakura said.
"Enough. Naruko, tell us, that why did you leave the village, so we can help you," Sasuke pleaded.
"Why would you want to help me? You didn't even want to be friends with me at first, instead, you considered me the weakest member of the group, caring little about my feelings. So why would I accept your offer of help? Granted, that at first I tried to get stronger, hoping that you wouldn't think me weak, or that you would stop making fun of me. I appreciate your friendship, but what if you've been laughing at me lately?" Naruko asked, holding her hands in a gust.
"I'm asking you to help me, members of 7-Mei. I don't want to talk to those two right now!" Naruko wished, and the crystal on Naruko's necklace sparkled a bit as a result of Naruko's wish, because the 7-Meins inside the crystal, the members had heard the wish Naruko had just made, and prepared to grant that wish while protecting Naruko.
"We haven't laughed at you lately," Sakura said, and ran towards Naruko preparing to attack, but then the crystal in Naruko's necklace started to glow, and it pushed Sakura further away from Naruko, protecting Naruko.
"What?!" Sakura cried out in disbelief as she lightly landed back on the ground. "Naruko, i think i know, that why did you leave Konoha!"
"How come?" Naruko asked.
"We didn't notice you leaving Konoha at first, but we wondered that, that why have you avoided us. So we broke into your home with our own permission to check, that maybe you had a cold, but we couldn't find you there. I did find your journal though," Sakura said.
"Don't just say, that you read that?!" Naruko yelled angrily, and scared.
"I wouldn't normally have done that, but I read a couple of pages of it, and that last page, and I believe that..." Sakura's sentence stopped, when he saw Naruko crying.
"Stop! Don't!" Naruko shouted at the same time, as the crystal began to glow more and more, and at the same time, a transparent crystal case appeared around Naruko, enclosing Naruko inside.
"Naruko, we can definitely talk about this!" Sakura shouted in shock at the sight, that what happened to Naruko.
Inside the crystal case, Naruko looked at her friends, and then fell asleep with her tears drying.
"What just happened?!" Sasuke asked putting one hand on Sakura's shoulder in disbelief, at the same time, when Naruko's clothes changed to a white and blue kimono, whose obi was yellow.
Then Sasuke, and Sakura saw the Kyubi's face appear in the crystal, which gave them chills.
"Naru!"
"Naruko!" Sasuke, and Sakura screamed in disbelief that, what they saw was true.
"Now you can't blame Naruko for anything, because it was you who caused this situation for him," Kyubi's face that appeared in the Crystal Case said looking at Sasuke, and Sakura disdainfully.
"Naruko?" Sakura asked.
"No. We're not talking to Naruko now," Sasuke said after realizing the situation.
"You noticed you saw me, Sasuke. It's probably that damn Sharingan of yours, and the merit of your loathsome blood. The chakra is also very similar to Uchiha Madara's chakra. My real nami is Kurama, and it's your fault, that Naruko was now hiding somewhere, where even I can't find him," Kurama said.