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Solis et Lunae
The next morning at Naruto's house.
Naruto's clock read 6:30 AM on Wednesday and was loudly beeping to signal him to wake up. The blonde pulled himself up lazily, turned his chock alarm off, and slowly went about his morning routine. After he was dressed and ready for school, Naruto grabbed his homework and deck from his desk. He looked a his clock and saw is was 6:56 AM, he had thirty minutes to got to school if he wanted to be on time. "Well damn." The teen muttered as he grabbed his handbag and rushed out of his room and down the stairs. Kushina was in the kitchen getting two pieces of toast out of the toaster and spreading apple butter on them when she heard footsteps coming down. "Naruto! I made you breakfast to eat on the way to school!" She called out as her eldest child ran in and grabbed one of the slices of toast and kissed her on the cheek. "Thanks Mom." He said quickly as he when to the front, slipped his shoes on, and bolted out the door. His mother stood there and blinked a few times before smiling.
Naruto was running down the sidewalk eating the toast when he decided to look at his watch and slowed down when he realized that he covered enough ground to make up for him waking up late. He looked up to see Misaki just get up to the crosswalk and sighed in relief, if he ran for any longer he would have ran straight into her. He finished his toast and stopped next to the lavender haired teen who was reading her book oblivious to all but her book and the streetlight. "Morning Misaki-chan." Naruto said causing Misaki to jolt slightly and look to her right to see her coworker standing there with a cheeky smile. "H-Hello Naruto. I forgot that both of our schools are in the same direction." Misaki said as they waited for the light to change with an awkward silence between them until the male tried to strike a conversation. "So how are you?" The light turned green and they started walking. "I'm doing fine. A little tired from yesterday though, had to walk all the way to the other side of town and back." the lavenderette answered.
"Doesn't Shin-san have a van for that kind of thing?" The whiskered teen asked while a few meters behind them a girl about Naruto's age walked out of the house they passed. She had pale blond hair in a ponytail with bangs covering her right eye as well as light blue eyes. She noticed a familiar blonde head walking in front of her talking to someone shes never seen before, high schooler judging by her uniform. She decided to eavesdrop on the duo as they continued their chat. "It's in a shop for repairs. By the way, I see Shin-san took to managing your team. Team Maelstrom, huh?" Misaki asked in an amused tone getting Naruto to sigh. "I still don't know why he chose Maelstrom. Did he just translate my name or something? It sounds kinda lame." The high school student giggled as she sees the younger teen scrunch his face in a thinking manner. "He has a strange habit of naming things, like when he named my team Team Quadrifoglio to give us good luck." She said as the girl behind them was thinking. 'Who is that? Why is she being so friendly with Naruto?'
"A four leafed clover, really? Sounds like something my sister would come with." Naruto added his thoughts on his coworker's team name. They continued to talk for the whole journey. "Well Misaki-chan, I see you at the shop." He said at he walked through the front gate while he waved the lavender haired girl off. Misaki waved back and stood there and watched the blonde walk to the school's front doors then started on her way to her high school. The girl that was tailing them stood there with a confused look. 'Is that his new girlfriend or something? What is Team Maelstrom? I will find out what this is about.' A mechanical sound alerted her as the gate started closing, she rushed to make it.
Later that day at the start of Naruto's free period.
The whiskered blonde walked out of his science class and headed to the stairs. He reached the roof and walked to his usual shady shot where he placed his handbag down to use as a pillow. He layed down and closed his eyes to get his afternoon nap. The next thing he knew he was standing in a large hilly grass plain. "Not again. What is it this time?" He asked out loud. He saw a small blonde boy in the distance chasing a blue dog with a mane of pinkish hair and abnormally large ears that looked suspiciously like wings. For some reason Naruto can't seem to focus on them so they seem to slightly blur in his eyes. The boy tackled the dog and proceeded to wrestle it. At this time a beautiful girl ran up to them and separated them. She had long red hair tied up in a huge pigtail on the left side of her head and she was wearing a odd uniform and a hat. The blonde teen couldn't hear her talk but he could tell the other two were being scolded. The boy was looking to the ground and the girl put her hand on his head. The two humans and dog started walking away. Naruto had a feeling of nostalgia at this scene and he started walking to the trio when a gust of wind picked up and he shielded his eyes.
He woke up with a jolt and if you were to look carefully you would see his eyes glowing with a swirling red light for a few seconds before fading away. "What was that? It felt so familiar for some reason." He pondered the meaning of his dream when he heard the bell ring meaning that it was time to go to class. He grabbed his bag and was on his way to English class. Naruto sat down at his desk and as soon as he did the girl from this morning came up to him. "Hey Naruto, Who was that girl you were walking with this morning? Your girlfriend?" Asked the blonde girl causing the male to sigh. "Ino, who I hang out with is my business. And no Misaki-chan isn't my girlfriend." The now revealed Ino crossed her arms. "Misaki-chan, huh? Sounds like you at least aiming for her. Besides that, whats Team Maelstrom?" Naruto groaned at this, he didn't like the team name as it sounds like something a fourth grader would come up with.
"That's the name for my team when we go to the the VF Circuit. So far I have Shikamaru as a maybe, I need at least one more to make a full team." The whisker blonde said as the other students were fulling the room. "The Circuit! Can I be part of the team?! I just got the Musketeer series for my deck!" Ino was a fairly decent fighter who performed well in the qualifier. "I'll think about it, now can you sit down. The teacher is glaring at you." As he said this the girl look to the front to see the teacher standing there with a book ready. Ino laughed nervously as she went to her desk.
After school at Card Capital
Misaki was standing there changing into her apron. She was fuming at the thought of her new coworker's relationship problems. 'Someone like Naruto shouldn't have to deal with a superficial girl like that Sakura girl. He seems to be a great guy to be with.' The teen caught herself at this thought. 'Wait, what? Why am I thinking about him like this? We just met a few days ago.' The lavender haired teen sat down and hid her face with her book to block the blush spreading across her face at the thought of the blonde teen. As she composed herself said boy walked through the door and stretched his arms over his head. "Man, what a day." He said as he walked behind the counter and grabbed his apron when he noticed Misaki sitting there nose deep in the same book that she had been reading every time he saw her.
"You must really like that book, Misaki-chan." Naruto said causing Misaki to jolt slightly. She looked at her coworker with the book still blocking her face. "U-Um yeah. It's my favorite series, I can never seem to put it down for long." The blonde nodded his head as he grabbed one of the boxes set out for restocking. "I'm not much of a reader myself, I can't pay attention long enough to read a page." He said as he got to work. The cashier looked at him as he sorted the merch, what she overheard yesterday continued to fester in her head.
Aichi and company walked in and sat down at their usual table and started playing as loads more customers started coming in as well. "Wow. That's a lot of people coming to this little shop." The blonde said as he finished restocking. Misaki sighed at this, she'll have to deal with all the purchases...again. Her coworker looked at this and decided to act. "Hey Misaki-chan, let me take care of cashier duty today." Said girl looked at him. "Are you sure?" Naruto scratched the back of his head. "Yeah, that the reason I was hired in the first place. Besides I wouldn't want to separate you from your book." The lavender haired teen thought about this while blushing slightly, then nodded. "Fine, if you insist." She said as she stood up to allow the blonde to sit at the counter.
A short time after that the Manager walked in and saw that his niece wasn't sitting at the register instead the new employee sitting there ringing up the customer's purchases. "Naruto-kun, I was expecting Misaki to work the register as usual." The blonde looked at Shin and tried to come with an excuse. "Oh hey Shin-san, I thought Misaki-chan could use a break. She seemed kinda tied, must be her school work or something." He said with a forced smile. The boss looked a little skeptical at this but dismissed it almost instantly and walked away. Naruto sighed and continued the transaction. After the last customer in line left with his booster packs, the blonde sat back and shut his eyes for a second to rest them.
Naruto found himself in the same grassland as before and groaned. "What is with these dreams? Was the milk at cafeteria expired again?" He looked around to see a small farm in the distance and walked to it. When he reached the barn he looked inside to find the same boy from before standing at a stable with an odd blue horse with a strange orange mane behind a fence. The boy held up a carrot to the horse's mouth and it was eaten. The horse put it's head down expecting the boy to pet it. As the boy petted it a large man in white, bulky, and angular armor with a crown-like helmet walked in to see the scene. He walks over and places his hand on the boy's head. They seemed to be talking by Naruto couldn't hear a thing they said. The armored man opened the fence gate and let the horse out then he mounted it. The warrior looked to the boy and gave a thumbs up to the the child before taking off on the horse. Naruto looked at the boy and yet again tried to reach him when a gust of wind picked up. The teen woke up, with the same glowing effect in his eyes as before, to find that nothing has happened. He looked at the clock and saw that only two minutes has passed. He saw that a new line has formed at the counter ready to buy more goods. He continued his duties until the store was closing up.
"See ya tomorrow, Misaki-chan. Maybe we could walk to school together again." Naruto said as he waved to Misaki who was sitting at the counter. "I would like that. See you later." The lavenderette said as the other teen walked out. The Sub Manager, who was laying there the whole time, meowed at her as if begging for food. Misaki sighed, picked him up and took him up stairs.
AN: This was a relativity hard chapter to get down on digital paper. Hope it isn't too boring, I had no idea how too really do this chapter. Also to that one guy, stop bugging me about me updating this. It makes me feel rushed.