I don't own Naruto.
It's actually really funny how I got inspiration for this fic. I saw this amazing picture of Tayuya where she was smiling, and I couldn't describe how entranced I was. She looked so happy, and I felt like putting that look on paper. In all honesty, that is the single reason behind this fic. This was until I heard the song Truly, Madly, Deeply by Savage Garden. That's where I got the other part of my inspiration. The song will play a slight role in the final chapter, when I get there. Or I could just write the final chapter before I finish, as a goal to say, "I know I'll get there someday" as JK Rowling said.
A key thing to note is I used mostly the English spelling of names, so if they look a little weird, sorry. I might change depending on what you guys think.
Flashback
Present
'Flashback Thoughts'
'Present Thoughts'
Chapter One- First Meeting, First Lunch
Sunlight crept into Naruto's bedroom, causing him to wake up from his very peaceful slumber. Sitting up on the bed, he cleared his long blonde hair from his eyes and looked at the time. It was 11:00 AM. Naruto slowly turned his head to look at the calendar that hung on the wall of his bedroom. It was the 19th.
"Wait…the 19th?" he said to himself. The gears in his head slowly started turning until it finally clicked. "Shit! I need to be at the wedding today!" Naruto literally leapt from his bed onto the floor and ran out into the kitchen like a speeding bullet. He did not notice the other occupant of the room.
"Ah, so you finally decided to wake up? I was getting excited that I might get to beat your face in for not waking up in time." A woman's voice called out, not bothering to look away from what she was cooking on the stove. She was wearing an oversized white shirt and some red pajama pants with flutes and musical notes on them.
"You would too, wouldn't you?" Naruto answered, sounding slightly disgruntled at the vision of him getting his ass beat. He sniffed the air. "Hey, something smells good! What are you making?" He asked as he took a seat at the table
"I decided to make pancakes this morning." The woman replied, as she flipped another pancake in the air. Naruto paled at this new bit of information.
"But your horrible at making pancakes. They taste like absolute shit. I'm a little surprised you haven't burned down the house, judging from what happened last time." A vein popped on the back of the redhead's head.
"They taste like crap do they?" The redhead said slowly. Naruto now feared for his life. She turned around quickly, fire burning in her eyes. "Your going to eat them, and you'll fucking like them! If you don't…" She simply let the threat hang in the air.
"Tayuya...lets be reasonable here. There's no need-" Naruto began, but was interrupted when a plate was slammed in front of him. Naruto looked up and saw Tayuya staring at him, her arms crossed.
"Eat. Now." Was all she said. "Well, what are you waiting for?" Tayuya questioned as Naruto continued to just stare at his food like it was some sort of painting. "I said eat dammit!" She practically shouted. She took out a knife and brandished it in front of him as if she was going to stab him.
"Tayuya," Naruto began, "I think I'll have to-" Naruto was cut off as Tayuya forcibly shoved a piece of food into his mouth as he was talking. Naruto didn't really have much of a choice. He ate the food, no matter how bad it tasted.
Tayuya smiled as she took the fork out of his mouth and started twirling it around as she leaned on her elbow. "Now was that so hard, or am I going to have to keep force feeding you?" One thing Naruto absolutely loved was whenever the redhead smiled. It was such a rare occurrence at the beginning of their relationship so long ago. He treasured every single moment. That's right folks. Naruto Uzumaki and Tayuya Darius were going out. Doesn't really sound like the picture perfect couple does it? Most of the people of Konoha thought the exactly same thing. Regardless, they were together. How you ask? Well…
"What the hell are you staring at?" Tayuya asked rather annoyed. Naruto had been staring at her for quite a long time.
"I was just thinking how beautiful your smile is." Naruto said dreamily.
"How sweet…" Tayuya began, "Now eat the rest of your pancakes." She stated. Naruto decided to give up on the losing battle and just eat the pancakes. Tayuya watched Naruto eat before deciding to go back to the stove to clean up. "You can't be hungry while you're attending the wedding and giving your speech. You are the best man after all." Tayuya brought the pan she used to cook to the sink and started the water. She turned around and leaned on the counter. "Do you have your clothes ready yet? After all, you shouldn't wear your Jonin vest to the wedding."
"Yeah, yeah, I know. And yes, I have all the clothes ready. Shouldn't we get going soon?"
"Gawd, your just like your sensei in that you have no skill to judge time. The wedding doesn't start till 3 and everyone will get there around two. We should leave around 1:30." Tayuya explained.
Naruto stroked his chin for a moment. "Won't it only take about 5 minutes if we take the rooftops?"
"Were walking. I plan to enjoy this day. After all, it's not everyday where one of your best friend gets a wedding, right?"
"I suppose so." Naruto agreed. He had just finished off the pancakes and walked over to the sink were Tayuya was cleaning. She stopped cleaning for a moment and put her arms around his neck.
"Listen, don't be so nervous. I can see the worry on your face. If your so uptight, how do you even plan to give a speech?" she said, looking into his blue eyes. They were an easy indicator on how Naruto felt, for Tayuya at least. The fox-boy turned his head away.
"Listen…I don't want to mess up and ruin my reputation. There's a lot ridding on this wedding. It's taken years for me to be accepted." Naruto said, his eyes downcast. Tayuya removed one of her hands from his neck and pushed his chin up so that he would look at her.
"You will do well." Was all the redhead said. She gave him a quick peck on the lips and returned to what she was doing. Naruto had a huge ass grin on his face. It wasn't often that Tayuya showed affection.
There were several knocks at the door before it was finally just busted down. "Bro!" A young voice called out, completely ignoring the broken down door as he ran into the kitchen, "Are you ready-oh, you're here too?" he asked. Naruto shook his head at the boy in front of him. He no longer sported the scarf he wore so long ago, nor the helmet either. He was wearing some black slacks and a white button down shirt, as today was a very important day after all. His hair still went straight up as always. Naruto always wondered how his hair did that. It was even more outrageous than his own hair, which had started to take on a shaggier look when he turned 18, about 6 months before Tayuya had moved in with him.
"Konohamaru…I've lived here for over a year and a half…" Tayuya said slowly. "Besides…that's the 5th door you've broken in the last 3 months." Tayuya finished, slowly turning around. Her eyes were clouded over as she whipped out her flute. "Time to pay the piper!"
"That pun was pretty bad fireball." Tayuya slapped her head. She hated it when Naruto called her that.
"Tell me again why I let you call me that?" She asked, quite exasperated. Naruto just sported one of his trademark grins.
"Because you're my fireball!" Naruto sounded as if it was the most obvious things in the world.
"Ahem!" Konohamaru called out, "As much as I don't want to interrupt your moment, I have to remind you that both of you play a key role in this wedding. Tayuya is a bride's maid, while Naruto is the best man. In a way, you're the second most important couple there." Naruto just looked blankly at Konohamaru.
"Speaking of couples, have you made a decision yet?" Naruto asked, looking intently at Konohamaru. His face heated up before the redness faded back to normal a moment later
Konohamaru shuffled his feet and looked down. "Does everyone know? Is it really that obvious?"
"Honey, the whole village knows. Soooooo, will it be the stuck up Hanabi or the orange haired one?" Tayuya asked sweetly, leaning down to get on Konohamaru's level.
Konohamaru's eyes narrowed as he reared back his fist and tried to punch Tayuya. She simply leaned back up and put a hand on his head as he vainly tried to hit her anyway possible. "Don't say that about Hanabi and her name is Moegi! I'll kick your ass! Let go of me you bitch! Let go I say!"
"I think my language is rubbing off on the village, what do you think Naruto?" Tayuya finished, looking over at Naruto. Naruto just sighed.
"I think he hasn't made a decision yet."
Konohamaru gave up trying to punch Tayuya and let his arms drop. "Hanabi demanded-demanded!- that I be her boyfriend. She may act rough and cold, but it's easy to tell she cares for me."
"What of orange head girl?"
"Dammit Tayuya, you think you would refer to her by her name since you've been in our village so long! Do you know how much she looks up to you? She looks up to you almost as much as she does to Temari and Sakura."
"I know, I talked to her yesterday. Is it true that you talked to Hanabi first when your team met last time?" Konohamaru paled at the last sentence and took a few steps back
"S-She noticed that and told you?" he stuttered.
"Yes, she did. She was quite upset mind you. She described it as if you just completely ignored her, not even saying 'hi'. You should be punished Konohamaru…" Tayuya finished as she brought her flute to her lips.
Naruto stepped in before anything could get more out of hand he grabbed hold of her flute, blocking all the holes so she couldn't play any melodies. "Tayuya, I think it would be best to let him off this time. After all, Hiashi might get angry at the prospect of his future son-in-law being assaulted." Konohamaru's face drained of all its blood when he thought of having to deal with Hiashi, the head of the Hyuuga house.
"I wonder when that old coot will keel over and die. Isn't he almost 50 now?" Naruto and Konohamaru looked shocked on how freely Tayuya would speak about highly renowned individuals.
"Tayuya, you shouldn't talk about people like that, especially high standing figures such as Hiashi." Tayuya simply scoffed at Naruto's words. Naruto just shook his head. She would never fully respect any figure, unless she liked them…
"Your one to talk blondie. You always say," Tayuya stated before she started imitating Naruto's voice, "That old coot should step down already. It won't be long before he can only walk with a cane. He's the reason-mmffh!" Naruto quickly covered the flute player's mouth before she could say anymore. Her eyes narrowed dangerously.
"So, Konohamaru, what brings you here?" Naruto nervously asked. He didn't need to be embarrassed now. There would be plenty of chances for it at the wedding.
"Oh yeah! I came to give you this." Konohamaru reached into his pants pocket and pulled out a small box. "Gaara told me that you wouldn't be able to lose it on the actual day of the wedding."
Naruto finally removed his hand from Tayuya's mouth and frowned. "Why was Gaara holding the ring?"
"Beats me. I gotta go and meet up with my team briefly. Bye." Konohamaru waved goodbye and ran out of the kitchen. Tayuya walked over to stand next to Naruto.
"That kids in quite a pickle. Reminds me of the decision you had to make a long time ago." Tayuya simply shook her head. "I'm sure it will work out in the end. It did for us right?"
"Yeah, but I hope the one he doesn't choose isn't devastated like Hinata was. I felt so bad…" Naruto looked to the floor, remembering briefly how the conversation went. Before he could fully go into his flashback, he was interrupted with a smack from Tayuya's flute.
"I don't need you to get all angsty on me now. Why don't we go out for a walk before we get all dressed up."
"I thought you weren't one walks on the beach and cuddling at night."
Tayuya looked at Naruto dangerously. "Were going for a walk."
"Yes Ma'am." Naruto said meekly.
"And put on some decent clothes!" She yelled as Naruto went into his bedroom.
OUTSIDE ON THE STREETS
Tayuya flipped some stray hair behind her ear as it blew in the wind. The sun was shining and there wasn't a single cloud. It wasn't everyday that it was this beautiful. She looked over at Naruto and was glad to see that he wasn't a complete train wreak. He was wearing a black vest and some khaki's. Tayuya was wearing a long, loose skirt that went down to her ankles and a sleeveless shirt.
"So, up for some ramen?" Naruto asked, first thing out of his mouth. He had to dodge two kids as they ran bye.
"Must you be so damn predictable at times Naruto?" The container of the mighty nine-tailed fox simply tilted his head to the side.
"What do you mean?"
"It's so typical for you to say 'Let's go get some ramen!'. It drives me up the wall!" Tayuya bellowed to emphasize the fact. "The first place you ever took me out to was a ramen shop."
"Whatever, were still going to get some." Naruto drove his point home by grabbing her hand and dragging her toward his favorite ramen stand.
"Naruto, slow down. Your gonna pull my arm off if you tug any harder." Naruto quickly dropped her arm at her complaint. However, the former sound-nin re-laced her hands with his after he dropped hers. Naruto gave her hand a gentle squeeze.
As they traveled toward Ichiraku, Tayuya started day dreaming about the time she and Naruto met. As they passed through the market, Naruto noticed that Tayuya was staring off into space.
"Tayuya, what's wrong?" Naruto's concern was clearly evident through his voice.
"Naruto, do you remember when we first met?"
"You mean when you fought Shikamaru and such. And then you lost. I still don't know how you survived though that attack." Naruto finished up and looked over at Tayuya, who was looking at the ground.
"You know how it goes…"
FLASH BACK
Tayuya groaned in pain as her eyes opened slowly. Her vision was very hazy and she couldn't see to well as she just woke up. As she finally got her bearings, she tried to move her legs, but soon realized that she couldn't move very much. The first feeling she registered was pain.
"What the fuck happened?" Tayuya whispered, her voice very dry and scratchy. She looked down at her legs and saw a giant log crushing her lower body. She tried to remembered what happened. She was fighting some shadow user until that wind ninja. She remembered hiding behind a tree and playing her flute and turning around to see its affect. When she turned around, she saw all the trees being cut down before the tree she was standing on was also cut down. After that, she blacked out.
Tayuya just stared at sky for a while. She didn't know really what to do. As of right now, she was completely helpless. She needed a miracle to survive. Tayuya snorted at that thought.
"Like that's going to happen."
"Are you okay?" a voice called out. Tayuya turned her head to see a blonde headed shinobi heading her way. As he got closer, she realized who it was.
"Shit, its that annoying, loud ninja." She said mostly to herself. As the ninja approached, he stopped and stared at her in shock.
"Y-you!" he shouted.
"Yeah, its me dipshit. Did you expect someone else?" she said sarcastically. At least it didn't hurt her to talk.
"What are you doing here!?" Did he have to continue to shout?
"What does it look like? I'm stuck here since I lost."
The blonde ninja-Naruto was it? She didn't remember what the shadow user called him-looked her over and saw that she had a giant tree-stump covering the lower half of her body. "Oh." Oh? Was that all he would say?
"Looks like you lost to Sasuke." The leaf-nin's face darkened at what she just said. Bingo. "You are so pathetic. Couldn't even bring back someone who you considered a friend?"
"Shut up! I should just leave you here to rot and die!." Blondie turned around to leave, but then looked back to Tayuya.
"Is there something on my face? Why the hell are you staring at me?" she questioned. She frowned as he walked over to her. "Are you gonna finish me off? Just do it! Get it over and done with!" She said angrily
The boy just looked at her and looked at the stump. He then walked over to the stump and started to remove it. Tayuya frowned at the ninja.
"What are you doing?" Tayuya sounded very uncertain.
"I can't ignore someone in need." He said quietly. Tayuya just continued to gawk at the young man.
"W-why?"
"Its my way of the ninja." He made it sound as if it was the way he lived bye.
Tayuya looked down, which was basically at the log on top of her legs. What would he do with her after he did remove the log? Was he even strong enough to remove the log? Would she be taken to Konoha and interrogated? Tortured? Even killed? All these questions were giving her a major headache.
"So what happens now?" She asked. The blonde shinobi looked over at her.
"Your going back to Konoha with me. We'll decide what to do then." With a final heave he threw the log off of her. She didn't bother trying to move her legs, as they hurt like hell.
He walked over to pick Tayuya up when a kunai flew in between them. Naruto jumped back in shock as they both looked up to the treetops to see Kabuto standing there, twirling another Kunai. "Naruto," he said fondly, "I'm going to have to ask you to leave Tayuya alone. Orochimaru's orders you see." Tayuya heard Naruto growl. "You cannot beat me, but I will give you a chance to run however." Kabuto had almost an amicable tone toward this ninja.
Naruto looked toward Kabuto, then back at Tayuya. He hung his head and jumped off into the forest.
"Come Tayuya, lets get going. Orochimaru is waiting for me to return." He jumped down from the trees and picked up Tayuya. He turned toward the direction of sound village and headed out.
She looked up at Kabuto. "How did you know where I was?"
Kabuto looked at Tayuya, then at her mangled legs. "I'm not quite sure if I can fix your legs Tayuya…it is worth a shot though." Kabuto said. "That curse seal you have allows Orochimaru to pinpoint your location and whether your alive or not. Pretty useful huh?" Tayuya didn't say anything to this. She couldn't get her mind off that boy named Naruto. Never before had someone actually been kind to her without asking for anything in return. Ah well, it didn't matter anyway. It's not like she would ever see the runt again. Oh how wrong she was.
END OF FLASH BACK
"Its kind of funny to think of that was our first meeting. I was such a little kid back then." Naruto mused.
"In all honestly, I don't really like remembering my past all that much. The past for me isn't pretty. It's hard to live on knowing all that I've done." She looked over to Naruto. "How is it that I'm even able to live like a normal girl in this peaceful village."
Naruto put his arm around Tayuya. "Tayuya, you've also done many good deeds also. You still do good works every week. You do know that the Genin look up to you now. Don't you remember what Shikamaru said to you a few months back? He said you are a wonderful person." Tayuya smiled at that thought.
"Yeah, it's nice to help people out, but back to my original question. Do you remember when we really met, when we had our first real conversation. You remember, it was around the time when you were traveling with that pervert."
FLASHBACK
Tayuya was on a reconnaissance mission for Orochimaru in a small rock village. It had been a year since Kabuto rescued her. After she had recovered, Orochimaru had taken great interest in her and had even trained her personally from time to time. Tayuya was slightly suspicious, as always, but she would take anything she could get from him. He gave her new clothes, as now they were not just a simple gray color. She wasn't forced to wear the 'ass-bow' as she liked to call it. He gave her these weird pants that he called 'jeans'. Tayuya had never heard of the term before, but hey, they were comfortable. He also gave her a black casual t-shirt that was one size too small, so it stopped short of her waist.
Tayuya was sent on a mission to a small rock village to retrieve some super secret earth scroll. She didn't think that there was an earth scroll here, but orders were orders.
'It's kinda nice to get out of sound village once in awhile. A place like this is so peaceful in quite.' Tayuya thought to herself as she walked through the main square. People were bustling to a fro all over the place. Some were carrying carriages holding a couple, while others were just running for exercise. The place was decorated with all sorts of small shops that sold various foods, trinkets, and antiques. The wooden buildings fit in perfectly with the tall mountains that surrounded the village. Tayuya watched as little children played in the streets. Even though she would never admit it, she had a soft. Spot for kids.
Tayuya was so caught up in his reverie that she didn't notice an old man and a young boy walking towards her. She did notice them when she collided with the young boy.
"Ummf!" Tayuya landed on the ground with a nice loud thud. She leaned back up and looked and pointed at the young boy. "Watch where you're going ass-" she stopped in mid sentence as she recognized the young boy, as he also knew her.
"YOU!" They shouted at the same time. It was that blonde kid who tried to rescue her so long ago.
"What the hell are you doing here!?" Tayuya shouted, not bothering to get up.
"Me? What are you doing here!?" Naruto bellowed back. From there, it turned into a shouting match. Quite a viscous one too.
"That's none of your damn business!"
"Oh yeah? Your probably here to steal something!"
"I don't care what you think I'm doing, I won't tell you shit shortie!"
"Your gonna tell me even if I have to kick your ass to get it out of you!"
Jiraiya simply looked on in confusion.
"Like you would actually stand a chance."
"From how you lost last time, it should be a synch for me!"
"Oh please, don't flatter yourself. You're a maggot compared to me!"
Naruto puffed up his chest at the last comment. "For a pretty face, you certainly have a rotten personality!" Tayuya turned red as a beet at that insult.
"Why you-"
Jiraiya decided to intervene. "Naruto, who is this?" he inquired. He would normally make a leechous comment, but he decided to hold back because he needed to confirm something.
Tayuya finally looked up at who Naruto's older companion was. She visibly stiffened. Before her was one f the three great Sanin, Jiraiya. She started to panic a little for once in her life. The toad summoner could easily kill her, and probably wouldn't hesitate to if he found out who she was. Had she come so far, only to die by a unlucky chance?
"She's an old friend." Naruto's voice was very faraway as Tayuya looked at him incredulously.
"I see." Jiraiya didn't know why he defended this sound-nin, let alone one of the sound 4 that took Sasuke away. 'I'm sure he has his reasons. I better leave them alone, as it looks like Naruto wants to talk to her.' If there was one thing he was good at, it was reading people in certain instances. This was one of them. "Naruto, do what you need, we leave in 2 hours." With that, Jiraiya walked off to work on his new book.
Each of them watched as the one of the three sannin walked off to do his 'research'. They looked at each other with blank looks on their faces. Naruto got up first and dusted himself off. He then extended his hand to Tayuya. She looked at it like it was some kind of disease that she didn't want to touch. Naruto sighed and physically picked up Tayuya and set her on her feet.
"Come on, I'll treat you to some ramen." Naruto said and started to walk down the street. Tayuya watched him walk off. He turned around. "Are you coming or not?" he called out.
'Why is he being so nice? Is it a trap? Well, there's only one way to find out.' She thought as she walked toward Naruto. She needed to understand him, at least that's what she thought when she followed him. A desire to understand another can be one of the hardest things to do. When you do however, it truly is a beautiful thing. Little did she know that this one decision she made would be the first step of the rest of her life. Not that their understanding would come any time soon.
Tayuya caught up and walked beside Naruto. She glanced at him sideways. "Why?"
Naruto looked at her confused. "Why what?"
Tayuya rolled her eyes. "Why didn't you tell him who I was?"
"Didn't feel the need to." Tayuya stopped and stared at the person who had saved her almost a year ago. That's it? He didn't feel the need to? Naruto stopped once he realized that she wasn't walking along beside him any longer. He looked back and sighed exasperatedly. He walked over and grabbed her hand. He then proceeded to drag her to the nearest ramen stand.
Tayuya, of course, tried in vain to pull her arm out of the boy's vice-like grip, but alas, it was no use. She considered pulling out her flute, but she wasn't very good with one-handed instrument jutsu's. Even though she wanted to, she couldn't physically attack him, as she would likely get kicked out of the village. If there was one thing Orochimaru didn't accept, it was failure. So her only real option was to just fall in step with whisker boy. Speaking of which-
"Why do you have whiskers?" Tayuya asked rather bluntly. Naruto looked over as they passed by a local vegetable store. She looked past Naruto to see a few small children trying to jump and take an apple from one of the stands bins.
"It's a gift from someone very close to me."
"Like someone you care about? What a stupid gift. They-" Tayuya was interrupted as the blonde kid let out a bitter laugh.
"I wouldn't exactly say they care a lot about me. They do in a way."
"What the hell kinda of answer is that!" the angry redhead bellowed at Naruto, who was right next to her by the way. "If you can't give me a straight answer, don't give me any answer at all!" Naruto turned to her, his eyes turning read.
"Shut up, what the hell do you know!?" Naruto shouted back, his eyes turning red.. Tayuya simply scoffed at him.
"Whatever, I don't really care anyway." Though Tayuya sounded indifferent, she would have been lying if she wasn't slightly scared. Only a bit though.
The leaf-nin and sound-nin, who were still holding hands to any normal onlooker, walked into a small restaurant. A young girl approached the odd couple.
"Hello, is this a party of two?" she inquired. Naruto simply nodded. "Follow me please." With that Naruto finally let go of Tayuya's. She rubbed her hand more than she needed too. Why was she even here? She could have just walked off when the Sannin left. All logic told her to leave. Then again, Tayuya was never one to use logic very much.
They were led to a window seat where they sat down and were given menus. The young girl left them to their own devices.
Tayuya briefly looked at he menu before deciding what she wanted. She put her menu down and looked at the boy across from here. "So why did you bring me here?"
He looked at her from behind his menu. "Because I am hungry, why else would I come here?" A vein popped on Tayuya's forehead when she heard his response.
"Then why the hell am I here?" She asked very slowly.
"Because I have some questions that only you can answer." Naruto said casually. Tayuya's eyes narrowed at this new piece of information.
"So do you think I'll just talk because you saved my life and didn't tell Jiraiya who I was? If you think so you've got another thing coming!" she said forcefully.
Naruto just looked out the window. "How is Sasuke doing?"
Tayuya opened her mouth to give one of her random insults, but was interrupted when the waiter came to take their orders.
"7 Beef ramen please." Was Naruto's order. Tayuya was used to dining with people who had large appetites, especially when she was with the Sound 4. Still, it was a lot of food.
"A sushi ramen." Tayuya said, handing her menu to the waiter. "So why do you want to know about Sasuke again?" asked absently, as she knew it would get on his nerves. Unfortunately, it didn't as much as she hoped it would. The boy just let out a heavy sigh.
"You could say you never know what you have till its finally gone.."
"H-Hey, don't get all sentimental on-" Tayuya's words fell on deaf ears.
"When I first met Sasuke, I couldn't stand the guy. He was a absolute jackass…"
"Still is." Tayuya muttered, interrupting the start of what she thought would be a long monologue. Naruto looked as if he had a faraway look in his eyes as he was continuing his story.
"Over time, we bonded, in a weird sorta way. He even saved my life one time. We were fighting this missing-nin who had some crazy bloodline that allowed him to make these weird ice jutsu's. It allowed him to travel so fast that even Sasuke's Sharningan had trouble following him. His attack used senbon, which is some kind of needle. Eventually, Haku threw a barrage of needles at me, when right before they hit, Sasuke pushed me out of the way to save my life. That was the beginning of our odd relationship." Naruto said in a surreal voice, as if he didn't believe what he was saying. To tell the truth, Tayuya didn't either.
Tayuya looked at him incredulously. "Wait, that ass actually saved your life? Pfft, that's complete bullshit. It's like he hates everything, that emo fuck." Tayuya replied to his farfetched story.
"I still can't believe he did it either, as I thought he was dieing, which he also thought, he told me he hated me, as I said the same back to him. 'I hate you..'. Thinking back on it now, the memory seems so fuzzy now. Anyway, it ended up that he somehow survived, and that Haku hadn't been aiming for his vitals. Next-" Tayuya put her hand to stop Naruto from continuing..
"If I just give you some information, will you shut the hell up and spare me a monologue. I don't give a shit about what happened in the past." Tayuya said quickly. Naruto just eagerly nodded his head in approval. Tayuya let out a slight sigh. If Orochimaru found out…
"Ok, Orochimaru is training Sasuke, teaching him all sorts of things. Sasuke is almost a complete ass to everyone and doesn't care about anything else other than becoming powerful enough to kill his brother. That, and he shows no respect to anyone." There was no need to tell him that Orochimaru had taken a slight interest in her and trained her personally once in awhile.
Naruto just looked at her. "That's it? That's all your going to tell me?" Naruto asked desperately.
"Dammit, were fucking enemies dumbass! Be thankful I even told you anything!" Tayuya said angrily.
"I was hoping for some long monologue." Naruto joked lightly. Tayuya gave him an incredulous look. She opened her mouth to dish out a very harsh insult, but the waiter had just arrived with their food. Naruto thanked the waiter and eagerly dug in. Tayuya just looked on in disgust. He ate like a animal. No class at all. She started eating her ramen when the boy had some nerve to say something to piss her off.
"God, can you not eat like such a savage?" Naruto had a look of utter disgust on his face. Tayuya opened and closed her mouth before she pointed her fork at the boy.
"What the fuck! Your one to fucking talk. I'm surprised you can even get half the food into your giant ass mouth with the way you eat.!" Naruto simply shrugged his shoulders.
"Well, when you slurp, your extremely noisy. I'm surprised the police haven't stopped by and told you to shut up. You let juice spill all over the place. You've gotten some on me multiple-" Tayuya screamed in frustration, causing many of the customers and some passer byes from outside to look at her. She got up and abruptly left the restaurant, leaving Naruto to pay for the bill. "…shit, maybe I shouldn't have said that."
END FLASHBACK
"Damn, I was pissed that I had to shell out all my cash for that. And I still didn't have enough! Do you know how long I had to work in that damn kitchen?" Naruto said indignantly. Tayuya smiled evilly.
"You got what you deserved. And you still haven't cleaned up your manners yet. I do expect them to sharpen up soon. If not…" Tayuya let the light threat hang in the air. Then again. Its Tayuya were talking about, so it could be anything. "As I was saying-" Tayuya was cut off as someone had bumped into her and nearly knocked her down. She teetered on her foot for a few moments until Naruto grabbed her and steadied her. She raised her fist in the air to teach whoever ran into her a lesson, but she stopped short as she saw a girl with long orange hair rubbing her head in pain on the ground. She was wearing a scarf around her neck that she sometimes used to tie her hair back with. Right now she was wearing some black slacks and a dark blue hoddie.
"Moegi, are you ever going to grow out of that scarf?" Naruto asked, helping her up to her feet. She dusted herself off and bowed to Tayuya.
"Sorry Tayuya, I was in a hurry. And this scarf was a gift from Konohamaru, you know that." Moegi said, giving a pointed look at Naruto, as if he would have remembered. Naruto nodded.
"Yeah, that's when your team was still Udon, you, and that runt Konohamaru. You guys were a team till Udon became a Jonin right?" Tayuya asked with Moegi nodded in affirmation.
"Yeah. I miss him a lot. I respect his replacement, but that doesn't mean-"
"Must you always cause a ruckus you twit?" A voice called a little ways down. Everyone swiveled their heads to look at the new comer. Having short black hair that barely reached her shoulders. You would think she was a ordinary girl if it wasn't for her pupiless opal eyes. Wearing a long white skirt and a blue button down shirt, with a flower in hair. Hanabi Hyuuga, the little sister of Hinata, stood there frowning at Moegi. "I don't know why I even hang out with you." Moegi stared at her indignantly
"Pfft, you just stick around with me because you like Konohamaru and you know we hang out a lot, but you have no chance against the mighty Moegi." Moegi gave Hanabi a sly look. "Besides, he doesn't like stuck up people." Hanabi stomped her foot
"I'm not as stuck up as I used to be, dammit." Hanabi bellowed. She blushed after her outburst and turned around to fume. Moegi turned back to Tayuya with a sparkling smile.
"Have you seen Konohamaru Tayuya? We've been looking for him, yet we haven't seen him anywhere." The flute player frowned at that.
"He said he was going to meet you guys at the bridge. You mean to tell me that he didn't show up?" She asked. Moegi simply nodded as Hanabi came up to stand next to her.
"When he didn't show up, Ebisu sent us to find him. Alas, we have yet to see him." Hanabi finished for Moegi, who had opened her mouth to speak. She simply nodded instead. "We should continue looking for him. Come Moegi, lets go." Hanabi walked off into a crowd while Moegi waved and ran to catch up to her. Naruto and Tayuya watched them go.
"That Hanabi has really become a lot nicer and not has rude since she joined Konohamaru's team hasn't she…" Naruto said as he watched the two girls disappear into the crowd. Tayuya looked over at Naruto slyly and nudged him in the ribs.
"Looks like you're not the only one with the ability to change people eh?" Tayuya said, continuing to nudge him with her elbow. Naruto slapped a hand to his forehead.
"Come on!" He said quickly, hopping that she didn't notice the light blush on his cheeks. He ran off ahead of her, not really sure where to go.
"H-Hey! Come back here you ass!"
END CHAPTER 1
And that's it for chapter one. I actually think it turned out not too bad. I would greatly appreciate any constructive criticism, or even what you think of my story. Any suggestions would be helpful too
Also, do you think I should the Japanese suffixes like –san and –Kun? Or just stick with the way I have it now?