A.N: hehehe! it took me a while to upload. I thought I could make a longer chapie... and in the end laziness took over my body...
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto
Chapter 4
The blond haired boy stood beside the memorial ( ehrm… what d'ya call it again? I can't seem to remember. ) He was silently thinking about the events that happened. This passed few days went by like a whirl of wind. Being in a new team had many effects. He randomly remembers his past, especially the bad ones which he wanted to forget.
" ne, one-chan… how are you doing? I hope your happy. I know you like watching me doing stupid stuffs and you have all the time to do that now." He quietly said to no one.
–pause–
" did you met Gin-kun there?" the wind blew , caressing his whole body as it gave slight warmness to the youth. He kept quiet for a moment, savoring the company of the sounds of nature. He inhaled before he started again.
"I'm sorry if I didn't visit you for…for how many years. I just can't… cause way back then I didn't have the strength and courage to face in those years. And then Gin… It's just that fate hasn't been kind to me. It's as if I'm a curse to any one whom I befriend of." His words were cradled by the swift breeze. Inside he felt his whole world will shatter again if he will be, again, the cause of the death of his team mates. Sadness clouded his bright blue eyes, he lowered his head. Then he tilted his head to face the tombstone (!). The sadness in his eyes was replaced by determination. " I won't let that happened again. I promise that to the both of you." His words faded in the air.
Minutes later, someone arrived. He held a bouquet of flowers in his hands. The flowers were all Iris, saying that there was good news or some kind. The man placed the flowers at the tombstone ( just bear with me ).
" you're pretty early today." Said the blonde. Well it's not like everyday you'll see a certain silver haired jounin coming on time or earlier.
The jounin smiled at him. For Naruto it was an enough answer. He knew that Kakashi was there for the same purpose as his.
" will the other two visit today?" inquired the blonde.
Kakashi shoved his hands on his pockets. " tonight… I think. They are on a mission today. They might not come back early."
" oh… I see." His eyes suddenly held many emotions but with a blink of an eye, it was back to it's bright baby blue color. " I think I'm going ahead. I haven't ate breakfast yet." He turned to leave and waved a hand to the jounin. Kakashi silently watched the retreating form of his student and saw him pivoted and faced him again.
" sensei…" the jounin raised an elegant eye brow. " don't be late by four hours. Three hours is enough." With that said Naruto disappeared leaving the swirling leaves.
Flash back
"Naruto… have you heard the news?" he at his friend with confusion clearly painted on his face.
" what news?" he stopped on his track so that Hotaru could catch his breath.
" that you–" hands clasped his mouth, preventing him to say anything further by himself.
" mou, hotaru-kun. And I thought 'we' are going to tell it to him." The girl pouted.
Gin released his hands, " yeah. That's right."
" gomen, hehehe." The boy laughed a bit nervous for he knew what their girl team mate can do.
" any way… the council…" akiru stopped so the other could say the next line.
"… said yes."
" you are now"
"Our team mate!" they all said in unison.
The blonde raise a doubting eye brow, " honto? You're not pulling any pranks on me, are you?"
" yes and we are not pulling any pranks on you, Naru-chan!" she half yelled.
" today, we are now officially team 10. the team Kakashi." Akiru hugged the youngest member of the group and the other two congratulated him for being a part of their team.
End of flash back
Blurs of shadows passed a tree. Then they split up in four directions. Each one of them moved with stealth. Their target wasn't that easy to catch. They need to be very careful so that the target won't get away for the tenth time that day. This mission was oh so boring.
' did we really do this kind of mission during those days?' Naruto thought as he saw their target licking its self. ' man. I still think it's better to have that pervert around. He mig–' his thoughts were cut short by the sound on the receiver.
" oi, Naruto are you listening?" came the high pitched voice of Sakura. Naruto just made a sound so she would know that he was listening. " so is the plan clear?"
Naruto shifted from his position. " che. Screw the plan." With that he came out the bushes he was hiding in. Four kunais are in his right hand.
" Naruto! What do you think your doing?" Sakura hollered to the mic. The three were lucky enough that they had released the receiver from their ears just before sakura burst out.
Naruto knew that the cat will run so he threw one kunai on the front of the cat then in all fours, stopping it just before it moves further. He jump and grabbed the cat by the skin/fur at the neck.
He brought the cat in front of his face. " you think you're wise enough to escape me, you–" all of a sudden he saw blurs of paws and claws. " AWWW! You stupid cat!" He found his face full of scratches. " Sakura, catch!" he threw the cat to sakura's lap.
"hey! Watch it. You might hurt the cute little cat." She was going to raise the cat in front of her but then she, too, were clawed by the cat ( milder). Sakura's eye brow twitched in annoyance. " why you little…!" out of nowhere she pulled out a rope and tied the cat by its feet.
Sasuke snorted, " the target is caught." He said in the mic, informing their sensei.
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( I'll jump to the time before the chunin exam starts.)
Team seven just arrived at the hidden leaf from their current mission to the Wave country. They were very exhausted from the trip and due to the fighting's they have done to save Tazuna. With them is Haku, the child that has a bloodline limit. Naruto was able to save him from constant death. This was all thanks to the old hag who trained him in medical jutsus.
" Kakashi-san, you and those two are being summoned by the hokage." The ANBU pointed Naruto and Haku with his thumb.
The silver haired jounin nodded then faced Sasuke and Sakura. " you two. Both of you can go home now. Try to rest as much as possible because we won't have any missions for the whole week." With that they separated their ways.
Hokage's office
Naruto stood outside the door of the hokage's office, waiting to be summoned inside. Kakashi and Haku were the first ones to enter the chamber of the hokage. The blonde heard the sound of the door being opened and saw the emerging form of Haku and Kakashi.
" your turn." Kakashi said to his student.
" so what happened ?" Naruto asked looking at Haku and his sensei.
The jounin scratched his head and answered, " he said that he will discuss this with the council."
" well, I hope that they will let you stay here. Ne, Haku." Naruto received a warm smile from the other boy. " ja ne." he entered the hokage's office.
Naruto placed both of his hands at the back of his head as he faced the hokage. " what do you want, old man?"
Sarutobi, from his seat, stopped writing on the scrolls and looked at the blond boy who just came in. " good morning to you, Naruto."
Naruto narrowed his eyes, " you won't get me with that act, old man. I know you too well. Just get straight to the point." He placed his hands in his side.
" will you please come here." As what he was asked to do he went to the side of the working table of the hokage.
Something came up to the blond's head. He smiled before talking, " heh. What's the matter old man? Wanna make me the Hokage!"
The man in robe got a scroll near by and hit Naruto with it in the head. " don't count on it, boy." The man placed the scroll back and got a folder. " here." He handled it to the fox boy.
Naruto checked the front of the folder then its back. " so? What's this?" he glanced at the man, waiting for instructions.
" I would like you to accompany some shinobis that will be coming in here for the chuunin exams." He said straight.
" that's it?" he raised an eye brow.
" yes. That is all. And you will be the only one who's going to accompany them. Your teammates needs to train more…" he was cut short by the blond.
" and I don't need to train!" now he crossed his arms in front of his chest then smirked.
The hokage smiled. He didn't want to say it but Naruto was much stronger than his teammates. " I know that you know you are strong. " Naruto's smirk became a wide grin. " now… the shinobis you are to accompany are the sand team. If you can, try to read those files. They are to arrive the day after tomorrow."
Naruto flipped the folder open and scanned the pictures that are clipped on to the papers. One of the pictures got the attention of the blond. He looked at it with curious eyes.
The hokage tilted his head to see Naruto's eyes that is full of questions. " why? Is there something wrong Naruto?"
Naruto's eyes were still glued to the picture. " I just thought that I have seen this person."
He was looking at a boy the same age as he's. the boy has a red hair and has a tattoo on his left forehead.
The sandaime scooped up the picture from Naruto and saw the red haired boy. The hokages eyes twitched a little and Naruto was oblivious to it. " is that so?" the hokage suddenly said. " perhaps… during one of your missions."
Naruto just nodded to it out of habit. " yeah. I guess you're right. Well then, I'll see you around, old man."
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The following day
Naruto rubbed his eyes as he yawned. " damn… why can't they just come during lunch time." He said silently to himself. The blond boy leaned to the post of the gate of konoha. It was 6 a.m. and he was assigned to escort the sand team when they arrive.
He was now standing there for five minutes and that time seemed like forever to him. He slowly slid down to the post and sat on the ground. " why do I have to do this…" His eyelids suddenly became heavy, his sight was blurring. He blinked twice to erase the slight sleepiness. After some minutes he saw three figures standing on a branch of a tree. From left was a girl whom had her hair tied in four sides, the one in the middle wore a black one piece clothing and he had those face paints and lastly a guy with red hair. The red headed boy was shorter than the other two, from Naruto's estimation the other boy was slightly taller than him, perhaps by centimeters.
"oi! Are you the team from suna?" Naruto yelled.
A.N: All suggestions and comments are welcome. R&R