Naruto Shippuden: Feelings

Chapter 1: The Leaf's New Shinobi

(I make my return yet again. For those of you who are familiar with my work... I'm probably not going to write new chapters for any of my other existing stories. Sorry, but if I lose my inspiration for something, it's usually gone forever.)

The cave was in a state of peaceful silence. One who would be passing by would certainly not even think that there was a person inside of it. Especially since the man in question was cloaked in the darkness of said cave, completely invisible to any prying eyes.

But if that was true, why was a young and beautiful woman walking into the cave? The answer was simple; she knew that he was there. As she approached the man cloaked in shadows, she got down on one knee and bowed in a sign of respect to him.

"By your request, I have arrived. What is needed of me?" she asked, her voice ringing throughout the cave.

"I have a mission for you," replied the shadowy man. There was something... off about this man's voice. His voice was drained of all emotion, not even a small amount able to be heard. This was a true monotone.

"Whatever it is... I'd love to do it."

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Naruto and the rest of Team Kakashi had just returned from a random mission. As soon as Naruto walked through those gates his stomach started rumbling.

"All right, back to the Villaige at last! I can't wait to get to Ichiraku and have some Ramen. It feels like it's been ages! Come on, Captain Yamato, you're paying!"

Yamato sighed, a tired look on his face.

"I'll buy you ramen some other time, Naruto. Right now I've got to report to Lady Tsunade. Then I've got to get right back to work repairing the Villaige."

Yamato waved a goodbye to the rest of his team and made his way to the Hokage's office.

"Aw, no fair! I'm broke! Sakura, can I borrow some money?"

He held out his hands to Sakura, wearing a pleading expression.

Sakura balled her hand into a fist, looking annoyed.

"You being out of money isn't my problem, Naruto. Get your own damn money!"

Naruto's stomach growled louder.

"Please Sakura, I'm dying here..." he said weakly.

Sakura crossed her arms and sighed.

"Look, you're out of luck. I spent the last of my Ryo on medical supplies. I'm broke too."

Naruto fell over comedically, getting up quickly and grabbing onto the front of Sai's shirt.

"Please tell me you've got some money, Sai!"

Sai sweat dropped as his partner grabbed him.

"Uh, yes, I have just enough for- woah!" He was cut off as he was dragged off to the new Ichiraku by Naruto.

"Please slow down, Naruto!"

Naruto, who wasn't listening, was just singing about how he was going to eat an ocean of ramen when he got to Ichiraku.

Sakura sighed and rubbed her temples.

"I swear, sometimes I'm the only one on my team that isn't an idiot..."

She started walking back to her house.

As Naruto was running, he collided with a young, beautiful woman that just so happened to be running too. This knocked both of them back, sending Sai comedically flying into a cabbage stand.

"My cabbages! You are going to have to pay for that, young man!"

Sai rubbed his head.

"S-sorry. Here..." He gave the cabbage man all of his money.

"I hope this is enough to pay it off."

Naruto and the woman were rubbing their heads as well.

"Hey, watch where you're going, you weirdo!"

Both of them then put on shocked faces. They had both said it at the same time. Then they both got mad as they realized what they had said to each other.

"Weirdo? You're the weird one here!" The same shocked faces again. They really needed to stop doing that.

Naruto got up, brushing the dirt off of his clothes and holding his hand out for the woman.

"Sorry, didn't notice you there."

The woman took Naruto's hand and he helped her up.

"You're not from around here, are you?" Naruto asked.

"Yeah... how could you tell?"

"Everyone in the village knows me. Since you obviously didn't know who I was, I just kinda guessed." He gave his trademark thumbs-up and grin.

This was when he finally got a good look at this woman. She was around his height, with long pink hair that was only a couple of shades darker than Sakura's hair. Her eyes were even pink, that was weird... and around her forehead... a Leaf Village headband?

"Hey, why're you wearing that headband? Only Leaf Ninja can wear that..."

The woman giggled.

"Well, starting today, I am a Leaf Ninja. I was a Ninja of a smaller village that got destroyed by a rival small nation... Unlike the Leaf though, my Village didn't make it. I had to move here because it was closest, and after a couple tests, here I am, an official Leaf Genin!"

She smiled, a gesture that made her face one of the most beautiful things on the planet.

"Oh, I haven't introduced myself yet, have I? My name is Ren. Ren Shimara."

Ren held her hand out for Naruto to shake, the Village Hero accepting and returning the gesture.

"Naruto Uzumaki, future Hokage of the Hidden Leaf Village."

Sai walked back up to the scene, having thoroughly apologized to the cabbage guy and brushed the dirt and bits of cabbage off of himself.

"I would prefer if you did not do that again. Oh, who is this?" He asked, having not noticed Ren until he said the latter sentence.

"Sai, this is Ren. Ren, Sai."

"Pleased to meet you Sai, I'm kind of new to the village," Ren said as they shook hands.

Naruto's stomach rumbled again.

"Hey Ren, do you want me to show you where the best ramen in the world is being sold?"

"Um, sure..."

"Follow me then guys!"

He started off towards Ichiraku again, only to look back and see Sai not following.

"Um... about that..."

One explanation later...

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T HAVE ANY MONEY!?"

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