Finding a Bit of Trust

Title: Finding a Bit of Trust

Fandom: Naruto

Chapter: 26

Word count: 1,169

Characters: Neji, Naruto, someone else

AN: I would just like to remind readers, if you don’t like my story and how I write, I’m not holding a gun to your head. You can click the back button, or if you’re like me, close the tab and go back to your others. Flames are disregarded or publicly mocked. I don’t do them, I don’t care how much you hate to see one character bashed or not. I don’t care if you hate the characters that I’m using. Get past it and go find something else. I label my shit correctly so there is no reason for you to try to play “let’s see who’s bigger” with me. I’ll win by default because I don’t play that shit.

 

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“So, you’re the one that’s gonna watch over me, huh?” Naruto asked in curiosity, tapping his pen on his notebook as Neji stared back at him, raising an eyebrow.

 

“Yes. Is there a problem with that?” Neji asked, voice drawling as he crossed his legs, foot bouncing. Blue eyes rolled as Naruto wrote something down onto his notebook once more.

 

“No, just curious. I know that Ibiki is with a new guest of his but I don’t know what Itachi-kun is up to,” Naruto replied, continuing to write easily as he talked with his friend. Neji just watched closely, enjoying the careless grace of his friend, always amazed at how easy the blond could move.

 

“I believe that Itachi-sempai is on a mission,” Neji mused, drawing Narutos up from his papers, an eyebrow raising upwards in curiosity. “He was in full mission gear when I saw him before he left. I believe it was a lead on some of that one guys contacts that are running around.”

 

“I see,” Naruto hummed, looking out over the land through the window of his living area of his suite. “Why do you call Itachi-kun sempai?” He asked in curiosity, tilting his head to the side. That startled a laugh from Neji, his eyes wide as he looked to Naruto.

 

“Why? Mostly as a sigh of respect, but also because he did take over part of my training when he rejoined the ANBU,” he explained.

 

“I see,” Naruto hummed, putting his notebook aside. Closing his eyes, he sighed before stretching his limbs.  “You know what’s odd? I miss Ibiki so very much and I know that he’s in the village and that I’ll see him later tonight but still I miss him.”

 

“I know how you feel. Its love…” Neji trailed off, looking at his friend who had gone stock still in the process of pulling his legs up onto his chair. “Are you in love with Ibiki-san?” he asked, blue eyes turning to him.

 

“I really have no idea,” Naruto breathed out, shrugging as he ran a hand through his hair before jumping up from his seat.

 

“Well, from what I’m seeing, you’re at the least on the path to full out loving Ibiki-san” Neji mused, watching his friend pace back and forth. “Calm down. It’s not a bad thing to fall in love with him.”

 

“I know it’s not but still…” Naruto said, sighing and flopping back onto his seat. “What if he doesn’t’ love me back? I mean seriously? I’m not that much to look at, much less experienced with relationships.” Neji gazed at him with an incredulous look on his face before he shook his head.

 

“You’re an idiot sometimes, Naruto,” Neji sighed, leaning his head on one hand. “You’re gorgeous, even more so since the psycho one did what she did to you. You could go head to head with any good looking male or female and have a good chance of at least tying with them in a looks contest,” he said, waving his other hand. “Not only that, but your still sweet, still innocent even after all of the blood you’ve split over the year. On top of that, Ibiki-san is courting you isn’t he?”

”Yeah,” Naruto sighed, looking up through his lashes.

 

“So, that means he has some form of feelings for you. So don’t doubt him and his feelings for you. I have no doubt that if he doesn’t love you, he wouldn’t have started to court you,” Neji stated, getting a shy smile from his friend.

 

“Alright, alright. If anything, I can talk with him soon and find out his feelings that way,” Naruto hummed before smirking at his friend. “What about you and your two lovers? Are Iruka-kun and Kakashi-sensei treating you well?” he asked, watching as his normally pale friend blush an interesting shade of red.

 

“My relationship is going well. They treat me amazingly well and don’t expect anything but my happiness,” Neji said as his blush finally calmed down.

 

“Ah, so they don’t expect you to be Mr. Housewife, huh?” Naruto teased, tossing a pillow at him with a smug look his face. Neji huffed and tossed the pillow back as he rolled his eyes.

 

“No, I do that because I like to and I’m used to nit now. Even when I lived at the clan compound, I cleaned and cooked for myself. I rarely trusted another to do it for me and now it’s something I enjoy doing,” the older male explained with a soft smile on his lips. “I especially like it when they’re so happy to see it all clean and done after a long day or a long mission. It makes me feel warm.”

 

“A kind of warmth that spreads through your body, warming you up in a special kind of way,” Naruto sighed, the two sharing knowing look between them. “Yeah, I know how you feel. After Ibiki got used to me randomly cleaning his house, he would always smile at me when he saw that I had cleaned on him. I have discovered that he prefers Ninos detergent to the regular nin detergent that you find more often. Leaves less of a scent,” the blond share.

 

“Iruka does the laundry in our house, calls it soothing, but Kakashi is the same way,” Neji hummed. “With his detergent preferences that is.”

 

“I’ve discovered that I have to agree with them on the choice, especially since there are a few all natural. I’m allergic to the green colored brand of it as I’ve discovered,” Naruto hummed, shrugging one shoulder.

 

“Same with Kakashi and Kiba I believe. All of the Inuzukas actually,” Neji shared, eyes narrowing at the window as he activated his Byakgan just as the chakra signature that he had felt disappeared. “Apparently anyone with heightened senses are allergic to them.”

 

“Yeah. So you felt them to? Itachi and I weren’t quite sure that there was someone following me around,” Naruto hummed, frowning heavily as he pulled a smaller notebook closer, writing a new time and a note down on it.

 

“And you couldn’t tell me so I couldn’t be tainted to feel something when I didn’t,” Neji concluded, Naruto nodding his head.

 

“They never stay all that long, or at least long enough with a chakra signature before they leave really fast,” the blond stated, handing over the notebook to show Neji the sightings and how long they had stayed once discovered.

 

“So, are they here to watch you? Or are they just here to stalk you?” Neji asked, looking out of the window with a frown.

 

“That’s the question. Itachi couldn’t find anything over the last area and Kiba couldn’t catch any scent from there,” Naruto hummed.

 

“They’re good,” Neji mused, Naruto nodding his head with a thoughtful look on his face. “Very, very good. Let’s go cook something for now. At the least we’ll be closer to that one room.”

 

“Yeah, sounds good to me,” Naruto drawled, the two heading downstairs.