Dragon Parlor
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Author: Ashrey
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style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Rating: M
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style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Pairings: NaruSasuNaru, and others.
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style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Disclaimer:style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> Now I officially own Gama-chan
(Naru-chan’s frog wallet), Naru-chan’s
jumper, a Naru-chanstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> key chain, Naru-chan
gashapon(s), a Naru-chan
fan, but I still don’t own Naru-chan!! class=SpellE>Uwaaan –cries-
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style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Warnings:
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Yaoi style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>---- MalexMale
relationship
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Hetero ----- MalexFemale relationship
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Drugs/alcohol style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>--- Mentioning drugs and or alcohol usages.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Language --- Cursing, retarded
tenses and grammar.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>AU
---- No ninjas here guys.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>OoC ---- They tend to slip sometimes.
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style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Terms:
Taiichoostyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>: Captain.
Gakistyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>: A rude way to call a kid (Much like brat)
Baa-class=SpellE>chan/baba: a shortened version of Obaa
(old lady/granny/grandma)
Jii-chan/Jiijiistyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>: a shortened version of Ojii
(grandpa)
Hakasestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>: Doctor.
Erostyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>: Pervert.
Shinkasenstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>: style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Japanstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>’s bullet train.
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style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>A/N:style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> Finally an update! Yes, I’m still alive,
but very sick actually. I caught the flu, cough and top all style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>of style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>it fever.
It’s a seasonal sickness now in my country, figuring the unsteady weatherstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>.style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> (One day it was terribly hot; temperatures
up to 37º Cstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:
KO'>. Tstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:
KO'>he next
day was cold and raining heavily.) I’m working on my other fics
(mainly Fox Hunt), so--- just read and enjoy, class=GramE>ja!
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style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Some major change at this class=SpellE>fic:
XxXxXxXstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> – scene/camera change.style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
:style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>blah blahstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>:– thinking.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>blah blah
– Flashback.style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>
---- Recap ----
The
brunette started his engine and drove
from the parking lot, not catching the image of a familiar bike with a familiar
bleeding
blond being carried style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>bystyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> a brunette who stopped in front the parlor.
----- End Recap
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style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>note:style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> I’ve changed Sai’s
reaction in Chapter 2 – class=SpellE>Uzumaki Naruto, I think he style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>isstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> less OoC in the
newest version, and that’s why he acted like now. You can check it if you want,
but the story it’s still the same anyway.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Big applause for our favorite beta, class=SpellE>Lexx-san!
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Chapter 4 --- class=SpellE>Uzumaki Naruto part II
“Strange
guy.” Yamato muttered
out loud after the two ravens stepped out from his parlor. He shrugged and
glanced at his watch, narrowing his eyes as he saw
the time there.
Narutostyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> and Sai style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>werestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> fifteen minutes late.
“I hope nothing
happened to th--” but before he could finish
his words, the door was kicked rather harshly open, making the bell chimed loudly. Yamato raisestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>dstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> an eyebrow, knowing the only person who
dared to enter the shop in that
way.
“Yamato-class=SpellE>taiichoo, help me! Naruto got
shot!” A panicking Sai cried, supporting an unconscious and
bleeding Naruto at the door, trying to drag the blond
toward the couch.
Yamato’s incoming
lecture immediately disappeared.
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After checking class=SpellE>Naruto’s condition and bringing the blond to his room style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>forstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> some rest, Yamato went to the kitchen and
washed his bloodied hands. style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>As he style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>scrubbed his hand with soap, he sighed
tiredly. “He is fine, Sai, the bullet passstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>edstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> through
his arm, but no major damage.” He said out loud, knowing that class=SpellE>Sai was watching him from the doorframe with frown on his
face.
“I know that,” class=SpellE>Sai sighed. Yamato heard a
soft tapping sound on the kitchen table.
He
dried his hands and turned style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>to lookstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> from the sink to the table.style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'> Seeing a glass of
cold water that Sai had laid there, hestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> gulped the liquid. style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>He style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>slumped onto the chair and closed his eyes,
exhausted.
“Thatstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>’s not whatstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> I’m worried about,”style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'> Sai
said with another sigh. Even
though Yamato couldn’t see him, he knew there was still a frown on the younger
man face. Yamato knew Sai’s frown was deeper than it was
before.
Yamato opened his
eyes, urging him to continue.
“class=SpellE>Kotetsu’s info was right,” Sai replied.style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> As Yamato
nodded, the younger man opened the fridge and took a can of beer and guzzlestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>dstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> it most of it in one big swig. “Today we
meet with Oto’s Four,” class=SpellE>Sai continued as he walked
briskly to the kitchen table, pulled out a
chair in front of Yamato, and sat on
it, placing his beer on the table.
“Everything was
fine; we had managestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>dstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> to corner them and seize their stuff,” He
exhaled, pinching the bridge of his nose,
“They had a bunch of it too, I guess it was a medium
scale shipping.”
At thisstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>,style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> Yamato’s showed an are-you-fucking-serious?
expression and Sai responded
smoothly, “Yeah, but Naruto said it was fake, class=SpellE>dunno how he can say that by just seeing the liquid
though.” Yamato’style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>s mouth turned intostyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> an ‘oh’ style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>as he style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>nodded softly.
Saistyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> took another swig of his beer, “Until that
snake’s sick boy-toy came.” He sneered at the nickname, almost crushing the can
in his hand.
“Sick
boy-toy? Ahstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>,style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> you mean Kimimaro?”
Yamato
questioned. Sai’sstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> venomous scowl answered Yamato’s inquiry effectively. “Wait, that meanstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>sstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>--” Yamato started but then stopped.style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> Sai’s eyebrow
rose at Yamato’s next comment, “Then it’s class=SpellE>Oto’sstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> Five, not Four!” Sai
rolled his eyes at the unnecessary correction.
“Officially it was
four when we first encountered
them then, but whatever.” He muttered under his breath, “Yeah, style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>it was four style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>until he came and started to aid the four. class=SpellE>Kotetsu, Izumo and I managestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>dstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> to hold down three of them, but class=SpellE>Naruto was against two, Kimimaro
and that nasty mouthed hag.”
“class=SpellE>Tayuya.”
The older man corrected.
“Yeah,
her.” class=SpellE>Sai sighed, “That’s when things went down the tube, and
everything got worse.” He gulped his beer, tossing the now empty can into the
trashcan. “Kimimaro was a nuisance with his martial
art skills and he used it to divert class=SpellE>Naruto’s attention while Tayuya
use the chance to snatch back their stuff.”
Yamato nodded,
encouraging him to go on. “And that stupid blond decide to use some of the
stuff tostyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> hold back the two.” Sai
growled darkly at this, clenching his fists
tightly.
Yamato’s brows
scrunched at Sai’s statement, “But I thought he said it was fake?"
He asked worriedly, sometimes Naruto’s actions are
way too brash; he needed to speak about this
with Tsunade and Jiraiya….
again.
“He said that’s why
he decided to use it.” Sai style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>spatstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> maliciously, muttering ‘Stupid class=SpellE>fuckin’ class=SpellE>Uzumaki,’
under his breath. Then he took another
deep breath to calm his raging emotion. “But he got the effect that he desirestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>dstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>; he managed
to hold them back, not even flinching when Tayuya
shot him when we arrived there.”
“Was he…?” The
older man asked grimly.
The dark haired
tattoo artist shook his head, “No, it’s not Kyuubi’s
aftereffect, he’s still Naruto; the fakestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>sstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> aren’t that good I guess. class=SpellE>Kimimaro and Tayuya retreated
after knowing that we outnumbered them, although her darts managestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>dstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> to hit Kotetsu
before they ran, but he’s ok, Izumo helped him.”
Yamato sighed
contentedly; it’s bad if another sweeper is listed in the black book. class=GramE>“And Naruto?” Sai
snorted at the question, “Let me
guess, he’s bouncing and grinning there, announcing another successful missionstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>, beingstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> all happy, dancing with bloodied arm and all, then deciding to style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>drive his
bike halfway back and faint after the effect wore off, and style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>in turn style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>making you drive his bike back here, kicking
the door harshly while supporting him?” Yamato concluded.
“That’s class=SpellE>Naruto for you,” Sai said.
Yamato groaned style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>after hearing style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>the affirmative and rubstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>bedstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> his temple while style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>walking out ofstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> the kitchen, “Where do you think you’re
going?” The raven-haired sweeper asked him, and Yamato muttered something and made the ‘phone’ insignia with his hand. Sai
grinned at this, knowing what lay for Naruto after
that call. “By the way, I put the stuff at the usualstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'> placestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>.” Sstyle='mso-fareast-language:KO'>ai informedstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'> Yamatostyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>, walking up
the stairs, wanting to go to Naruto’s room.
“Oh
yeah, Sai.” Yamato called to him
when he had reached the halfway mark in
the stairs, “When he wakes up, class=SpellE>Naruto surely
won’tstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> be happy knowing that you used his bike
without permission.” There was a grin in the older man’s style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>teasing style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>tone, but class=SpellE>Sai just rolled his eyes and proceedstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>ed onstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> his way.
That was, after
all, unnecessary information.
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Narutostyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> groaned agonizingly, waking up from his
unconscious state. His head pounded like hell. He opened his eyes style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>to style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>see a
familiar ceiling. :class=SpellE>Sai must style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>have brought me home: style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>He mused, making the bed creaking softly as
he tried to sit up. “Ugh.” He winced and
the world around him spun faster than before, forcing him to lie back again.
“That’s what you
get for acting like hero, moron.” Someone’s voice style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>camestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> from the doorframe. Naruto
blinked, :Why
the hell was Sasuke standing at his door?style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>: He rubbed his eyes,
not believing what he saw, and indeed, Sasuke’s
figure melted into another dark haired figure.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>:Go figures, you’re
hallucinating, blondie. Damn drugsclass=GramE>!:style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> “Sai?” He croaked
weakly.
Saistyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> stepped closer, “Sorry to disappoint you, class=SpellE>blondie.” The older raven sits at the end of the bed,
eyeing the blond carefully. “You okay?”
He asked, pouring a glass of water and giving it to the blond.
“Yeah, but my head
hurts like hell, and my skin itches.” :Not to mention that
I’m havistyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>ngstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>
delusions style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>aboutstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> class=SpellE>Sasuke: But
Naruto decide to let that information slip; instead,
the fox-like man try to sit up and drink the waterstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>.style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> With Sai’s help,
he pushed the glass and drank softly when he
feltstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> well enough. “God!”
He groaned again when his head protested his movement.
“Don’t move too
much, it seems your body isn’t healed enough.” Sai
sighed and placed the glass back to the table.
“It’s feels like I
got a heavy hangover but beside that and a tired
body, I’m perfectly fine.”
The raven nodded in
understanding “Yamato-taiichoo said that your arm is
fine, the bullet pass through
it there
was no major damage.” The
younger sweeper nodded, his mouth the shape of an ‘o’, but before he style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>could style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>manage to say anything elsestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>,style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> he suddenly found
Sai’s fist smashed into
his face, hard, making the blond tumble off
the bed.
“WHAT
THE FUCK THAT WAS FOR?!”
The blond hollered, wiping his now bleeding nose.
“Thatstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>’sstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> for making us worried.” Sai
smiled, and threw him a pack of tissues. The blond grimacestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>dstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> and shoved
a large
amount of tissues to his nose,
“And this is for making me carry you
halfway back.” Sai pinched Naruto’s
bleeding nose, making the blond shriek in pain.
Yamato style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>burst through style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>the door, hearing Naruto’s
thunderous shriek, “What the- Oh.” He stopped in mid stance, seeing the view of
the room; a smug looking Sai and a class=SpellE>Naruto with a bloody nose. The oldest brunette put the pieces style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>togetherstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>; “You should have punched him harderstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>,style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>” Yamato grinned.
“WHAT?!”style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>
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style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“Ne class=SpellE>Sasuke, watcha class=SpellE>doin?” The blond plopped down beside the raven who was
reading something.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“Well incase you can’t see, I’m reading, class=SpellE>dobe.” He answered, not takingstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>
his eyes style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>away style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>from
the book.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“Bastard.”style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>
The blond snorted beside him and scooted closer. “What are you reading anyway?”
Naruto put his chin on the raven shoulder, peering at
the book in his friend’s handstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>s. Hestyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>
flipped the page with one hand, making Sasuke tear
his attention from the book to the blond.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“What do you think you’re doing?” The raven
glared at his so called best friend.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“Well incase you didn’t know, I’m trying to
annoy you, Sasuke-teme.” He grinned, nuzzling class=SpellE>Sasuke’s neck. The raven almost laughed; well it was not
his fault style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>thatstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>his neck was ticklish and style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>that style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>one day the blond found out and almost
tickled him to death. Instead laughing, he closed his book and tapped it rather
hard on the blond’s head. “Ow!
What’s that for?!” Naruto winced and rubstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>bedstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> his head.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“Your punishment.”style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>
The raven smirked and put his book on the grass, stretching his body. The blond
peered at the book; eyes widened a little at the title, making one of class=SpellE>Sasuke’s dark
eyebrow rise.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Reaching the book, Naruto
frowned, “Japanstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>’s
Law System? This seems difficult.” He muttered, Sasuke
smirked, eyeing the book in the blond’s hand, “Do you
want to be a lawyer, Sasuke?” The fox boy asked, eyes
blinking owlishly.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“Hn.”style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“Is that a yes ‘hn’,
or no ‘hn’, hn?” class=SpellE>Naruto asked, still flipping the book pages and frowning
rather cutely when he found any unfamiliar words at the page.style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>This time it was Sasuke’s
turn to put his chin at his friend shoulderstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>,
peeking at the words.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“Between that and a detective.”style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> He
muttered, Naruto madestyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> anstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>‘oh’ soundstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>,
closed the book silently and stared at his friend.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“Well, I think you style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>are better fitted as a detective with an attitude
like that.” He grinned and Sasuke snorted. ”But
seriously, I think detective suits you better, Sasuke.”
He paused, “And I do believe you can become one.” class=SpellE>Narutostyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>
smiled cheekily to his friend.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“Of course I can, class=SpellE>dobe. I’m Uchiha class=SpellE>Sasuke.” The raven joked, with a hint of smile in his lips.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“Bastard.”style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> He
muttered and released a sigh. That wasstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>
when Sasuke was positive that something was bothering
his best friend.style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> “What
is it?” He asked seriously, eyes stared at his blue orbs.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“I can’t hide anything from you can I?” class=SpellE>Naruto lay down at the grass, gazingstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> atstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> the clouds.style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> class=SpellE>Sasuke followed his friend’sstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>
gesture but he propped his elbowstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>sstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>
with his eyes locked on Naruto’s posture. “It’s my
dad… I… haven’t received any of his letters these two monthstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>sstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>.”
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“And you’re worried?”style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> Sasuke pressed gently. style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Wstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>hen style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>the blond let out a long sighstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>, he knestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>w. “Ah, you miss him,” Sasuke
smirked, making the blond blush hard. style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Naruto rolled to the side as an
attempt to cover his blush. ”Well, maybe he’s just busy, you saidstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> so yourselfstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>
that nowadays he’s busy don’t you?” A nod was the answer that class=SpellE>Sasuke receivedstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>.
“But you still send your letterstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>sstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>
don’t you?” Naruto rolled back, his blush gone.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“Yeah.”style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“He’ll be fine, don’t think too much or your
head will explode, usuratonkachi.” class=SpellE>Naruto snorted at that but smiled nevertheless.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“Thanks, bastard.”style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“Hn.”style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>XxXxXxX
Blue eyes fluttered
open when his alarm clock beeped, Naruto
groaned and rolled in his bed, style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>his style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>eyes squinting at his alarm clock. It
flashed 8
AM. He blinked
several times and rubbed the sleep from his eyes. He sighed and stared blankly
at the ceiling.
Why did he dream
about Sasuke? Well, actually it wasn’style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>tstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> a dream, but rather a memory from a long
time ago. :style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Butstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> why?:style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> He hadn’t dreastyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>mtstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> about anything -or dreamstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>tstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> about Sasuke fstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>or thatstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> matter- since he style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>had style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>started
takingstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> the drugs.
He turned to his
side, rubbing his now blood-free
but bandaged nose. Maybe it was because of the
reunion? The blond’s
eyebrows wrinkled.
Narutostyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> rolled again, back to his earlier position.
He closed his eyes, remembering the reunion last week and a soft smile crept
onto his lips. It was fun to actually interact with them, not just eyeing them
from the shadows.
For three years, three
fucking long years, he style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>had to go throughstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> only watching his friendsstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>, watching themstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> go on with their livestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>sstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>. He had to watch
them from the shadows, sometimes guarding them of or keeping them away style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>from trouble.
And it hurt.
It hurt so fuckinstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>gstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> much whenever he saw the girls go shopping
together, sometimes speaking about him and their memoriesstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'> of himstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>. It hurt so fucking much whenever he sawstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> the guys take a break style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>and go style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>to the bar and somebody would announce
morosely that it would be more fun if he were there with them.
But he was there.
The style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>whole style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>time.
Not a single one of his
friends knew that.
He remembered
clearly Sasuke’s graduation day, the day he gained
his detective
license. He had been there,
watching the raven proudly.
Honestly, he never thought that class=SpellE>Sasuke would seriously become a detective, and class=SpellE>Naruto felt
very flattered at the knowledge that it was his suggestions that convinced the
raven to be a detective.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>In the bench-table style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>park style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>
of style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Tokyo Universitystyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>, style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>satstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> two people, onestyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>,style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> a man with a spiky jet black hair and
another, a pink haired woman, both of them currently reading bookstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>sstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“Ne… class=SpellE>Sasuke-kun, what makes you want to become a detective?” The
pink haired girl style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>asked as she style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>tucked
a strand of loose hair behind her ear, andstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>
flipped a few pages of her book. The raven beside her raised a delicate onyx
eyebrow and tore his attention style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>away style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>from
his book.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“What’s with the sudden question?”
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“Just curious, that’s all.” Sakura grinned,
“Well-” She paused, thinking about her next words, “If- if you want to catch
your… brother… Wouldn’t the police get more cases?”
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Sasuke fell silent at that, making
his pink haired friend fidget in her seat anxiously. But, unknown to both of
them, a man seated notstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'> sostyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>
far away from them was listeningstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>
the rather interesting conversation eagerly.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>The younger Uchiha
sighed, making Sakura winced, :Howstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> stupid I can be! I shouldn’t bring that upclass=GramE>!:
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“An… old friend of
mine had said that I should be detective with my kind of attitude.” Sakura’s
head snapped up; she hadn’t style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>expectedstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> to
see Sasuke propping his chin in one hand,style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> hisstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> expression soft. “So I decide to take up
his idea.” And he smiled.
At that timestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>,style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> Naruto had
decided that that day was the best day
he had style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>had after coming back to style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Japanstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>. Not to mention that he style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>had style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>managed to kick Kabuto’s
ass when sweeping that afternoon, also.
He grinned at the
memory; if Sasuke knew that he style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>had beenstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> stalk- er…
following him for almost three years class=SpellE>Sasuke would
be furious. But in reality, class=SpellE>Naruto was glad that Kiba
actually accidentally spotted him and forced him to go to the reunion, that way
he couldstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> interact with his friendstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>sstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> normally, and settle things with a certain
raven.
Speaking of that class=SpellE>Uchiha, Naruto darestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>dstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> to bet his one-month ramen supply that now
the current person was angry with him. Heck, he even wouldn’t be surprised if class=SpellE>Sasuke was
searching for his whereabouts now. “Good luck on finding me, bastard.” He
grinned cheekily, positive that Sasuke couldn’t find
him, no matter how good he was.
Ohstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>,style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> if only the blond knew.
He sighed rather
sadly. Maybe because that was the last
time he could chat freely with his friend, well,
until his problems were finished, of
course, which was rather impossible...
Actually, Sai often remindstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>edstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> him not to meddle too much style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>instyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> his friend’s life and social life,style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'> style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>remembering his current state and lifestyle;
but it’s almost impossible to detach himself from Sasuke…
At Italystyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>, he spent his first two weekstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>sstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> without the raven with brooding, brooding
and brooding some more, making both class=SpellE>Tsunade and Jiraiya worried.
The old pervert
even commented that he was acting like a lovesick schoolgirl-style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>-style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>which he denied of course- he did not act
like that! He just missed teasing that bastard! Sasuke
was indeed his best friend, and it was quite… different without him around.
“class=SpellE>Ack!
I feel so corny!” The twenty-two-year-old man rolled in his bed. Both handstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>s werestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> in his blond hair, blushing slightly at his
own comment.
“Glad that you finally
realize that, blondie,” a voice said. class=SpellE>Narutostyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> glared at the trespassing brunette, but
said person ignored and just smiled
at him. Naruto knew that smile; something bad usually
followedstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> that smile. “And it’s good to see you
already awake. You’ve got a call, Naruto.”
Naruto’sstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> brow wrinkled, “Who is it?” class=SpellE>Sai’s smile widened at the question, style='mso-fareast-language:KO;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>:Oh
yeah, something bad was going to happen
soon.:
“Oh, it’s just
someone who wants to talk with you.” An almost eerie smirk formed in those pale
lips, and the blond sweeper swore he heard evil laughs style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>coming from style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>behind Sai’s back
when he said that!
Grumbling, class=SpellE>Naruto grudgingly stepped
out from his bed, flexing his stiff muscles after spending the last three days
sleeping. With the older raven’s
smiling eyes still fixed on
him, he snatched a style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>pair of style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>random lounge pants and style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>put them style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>on as he made his
way to the phone. Well, Naruto was positively sure
that Sai didn’t
have any objections in seeing him wandering the
house dressed
only in his boxerstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>sstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>, but he doubted
that Yamato-taiichoo would share that opinion.
“class=SpellE>Uzumaki speaking.” The blond answered mildly.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“GAKI! HOW STUPID
YOU CAN BE?!” The
voice owner hollered angrily on the phone line, making the
blond wince and rub his almost deaf ear.
“class=SpellE>Geez baba, I didn’t wake up in
the morning just to be yelled at.” Naruto muttered
darkly, putting a good distance between his ear and the phone knowing the old
hag would make another screech (or screeches), and indeed she was.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>:I knew something bad style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>was style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>going to happen!:
After assuming that
she won’t let out another disastrous shriek(s) again, Naruto
put back the phone in his hearing range, “I’m not a kid anymore, class=SpellE>baba; you can stop worrying about me.” He sighed, hestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'> style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>really appreciatestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>dstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> the old hag’s
attention and worries, but for godsakes, she should
stop calling him whenever he came back from sweeping!
He was no longer a
fuckingstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> rookie when it came to sweepinstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>gstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>!
“What makestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>sstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> you think that I’m not style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>allowed to be style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>worried after hearing that you
takestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> the supposed-to-be-seized
drugs for yourself?.!”
Naruto can imagine the dark cloud behind the buxom
blonde when she hissed those words venomously. Naruto
groaned and glared at Sai who was passing by rather
intentionally and mouthed ‘You deserved it, blondie.’
While smirking smugly, style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>hestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> walked away.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>:Do they have to style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>report
every fuckinstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>gstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>
single thing that I do to them?!:style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> The blond rubbed his temple, “It’s a fake,
baa-chan, and
I only took two vials; it’s nothing compared to the real thing. This one is far
more inferior, you shouldn’t worry ‘coz there’s no aftereff--.”
“Feed that shit to
someone else, Uzumaki.” Tsunade
growled, “I’m worried about you, not the Kyuubi
aftereffect!”
Narutostyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> couldn’t
help to smile at those words; he knew that, but the reassurance always made him
feel better. “I’m fine baa-chanclass=GramE>, aside a bullet going
through my arm, I’m fine.” The older blonde sighed in defeat at that, “Oh and
the drugs only give me itches and one hell hangover-like effect.” He added
afterward. He could see the frown on the Tsunade’s style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>facestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> at his last confessionstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>.
“Go see class=SpellE>Kurenai, gaki.” -Check your
condition, Naruto.-
“class=SpellE>Geez, do you want me get castrated, baa-chan?”
-I’m fine, don’t worry.-
“I’m warning you class=SpellE>gaki.” -Please Naruto, just
incase.-
“class=SpellE>Geez, I’ll check up on her when I have the time, ‘k?” -Alright.-
“See style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>herstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> or you can say goodbye to field job, class=SpellE>gaki.” -Stay out of trouble, Naruto.-
“Yes mother.”
“Yamato, class=SpellE>Sai, you guys can stop eavesdropping now.” class=SpellE>Tsunade said and chuckled when Yamato’s voice sastyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>idstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> something along the lines ofstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> ‘See, I told you she knew we were
listening.’ to someone who was un-doubtfully Sai. class=SpellE>Naruto growled when hearing thatstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>;style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> they were happy
listening Tsunade chewing him out! “And please make
sure the gaki go to Kurenai’s
place for me.”
“Don’t worry class=SpellE>mam, we will.” Yamato’s voice spstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>okestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> up before he hung up.
“Oh
Naruto?
Jiraiya already heard
about this.” She said while chuckling, and hung up the phone.
Narutostyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> groaned at the new information and hung up
the phone, but before he could
walk away from his spot, the phone start ringing; shoving the idea to run away
from the phone to the back of his mind, the blond answer the phone warily.
“Uh…. Hello?”
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“BRAT! DO YOU EVER THINK BEFORE YOU
DO SOMETHINGstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>?style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>!”
A voice hollered, this time
it was style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>a man.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
:style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Wellstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>, here we go again.style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>:
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“class=SpellE>Yo! How’s your wound?” Naruto
plopped beside Kotetsu who was slouching on the love
seat. The older man scooted over, leaving a space for the blondstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>,style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> and yawned.
“No big deal, just
a scratch. How’s yours?”
“Nah,
nothing that I can’t handle.”
The blond grinned widely, pointing at his bandaged arm. Kotetsu
leanedstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> closer and poked the wounded arm, making
the unsuspecting blond yelp and jump in response, the older man just grinned at
the now glaring blond.
“Nothing
that you can’t handle, huh?”
The blond glared harder, “So— what made you come here, blondie?”
Naruto huffed at the question, shielding his wounded
arm from the older man at the same time.
“The old hag told
me to go here or I can say goodbye to field work.” He growled, “I wonder when style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>she willstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> start to see me as twenty two years old
instead twelve.” Kotetsu snickered at that snide
remark.
“Maybe you should
start acting like one, Naruto,” Saidstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'> style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>a man in his sixties style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>a matter-of-factlystyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> while emerged from one of the room there,
holding a clipboard in one of his hand, and thwacked it playfully in blond tuftstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'> of class=SpellE>Naruto’s head.
“class=SpellE>Sarutobi-jii chan!”style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> Naruto yelped,
rubbing his sore head, “Do you have to hit me that hard?” The old man just
rubbed his chin and flipped the paper in his clipboard, ignoring the whining
blond.
“Well, remembering
why Tsunade sent you here, I’style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>dstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> say yes, I should hit you that hard, harder
even.” Naruto meeped at the
thstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>reat, “Kurenai is
in her room, you can go see her now.” style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>Narutostyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'> style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>decided to
jump and totter to Kurenai’s workplace before class=SpellE>Sarutobi had decidestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>dstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> to give him another lump on his head.
“class=SpellE>Kurenai-hakase?” Naruto softly knocked the door to class=SpellE>Kurenai’s room.
“Come in.” A short
answer could be heard from behind
the door. The blond entered the room slowly. Behind the work desk a womanstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>,style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> almost in her thirtiesstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>,style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> sat,
shoulder length raven hair with red eyes and a stunning
beauty was thstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>estyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> woman’s
special trait. How this
beautiful-yet-easily-pissed-and-deadly-beyond-else-woman managed to be a
skilful doctor was beyond Naruto. “Ah,
Naruto-kun, fancy seeing you here.” The doctor
eyes turned into half moonstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>sstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>, seeing who her next victim-err patient
was.
“You know why I’m
here, hakase.” The young sweeper snorted while hopstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>pstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>ing onto the examining bed. class=SpellE>Kurenai just raised her
delicate eyebrows and flipped
the paper in her clipboard, writing
something on it and walking to the examining bed.
“Except a major
hangover-like and itching skin there’re no other aftereffects?” The fox-like
man noddedstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> his head, “Two vialstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>sstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> huh? That’s pretty stupid move, don’t you
think?” The doctor muttered to no one and shoved the thermometer to the class=SpellE>blond’s mouth rather violently, almost gagging him.
“class=SpellE>Ish ekh faig!style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> Shas class=SpellE>wey-” Kurenai snapped the younger
man’s jaw shut, earning a heartfelt glare from the latstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>tstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>er. Kurenai just
ignoredstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> him and snatchstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>edstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> the thermometer at the style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>correct style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>time.
“Pardon?style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> What are you saying earlier?” She asked
while eyeing the tool.
“I said style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>that style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>it was a fake! That’s why I tstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>ookstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> the risk to use it! Sheez!
You oldies are all the same!” He grumbled at the doctor; who suddenly yanked
his wounded arm, and opened the
now bloodied bandage, ignoring the screeches that flew from her patientstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>’sstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> mouth.
“class=SpellE>Hm--- No major damage, the muscles are intact too-- though
it’s still bleeding. You’re one hell of a lucky
guy, Uzumaki.” The brunette doctor released her
(still shocked and wincing) patient arm and walked to the medical cabinet,
checking and taking some stuff from it.
“You yanked and
ripped it! It would be a miracle if it’s not bleeding!.!”
Naruto screeched and glared daggerstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>sstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> at Kurenai’s back
who just shrugged and continued style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>to searchstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> for some stuff in the cabinet. “Now I know
why you’re still single.” Naruto muttered under his
breath, wishing the doctor didn’t hear him but wantstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>edstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> to speak it out loud at that same time.
To bad, class=SpellE>Kurenai did hear him loud and clear.
“I see….” The
doctor stopped her search, closed the cabinet and walked slowly with heavy aura
in her back, both hands
holding something that looked like a sharp needle and something else.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>:Crap! Crap! Crap! Now she’s class=SpellE>gonna kill me for sure!!:style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'> class=SpellE>Narutostyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> unconsciously crawlstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>edstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> back to the corner of the examining bed, it
wasstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> not really helping when shestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'> wasstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> smirking like that!! “Uh-
Hakase? Wha- what
are you…uh- going to do with that needle?” Beads of cold sweat trickled down
the sweeper’s forehead.
“Your wound needs
to be stitched… Na-ru-to-kun.”
She drew out every syllables of Naruto’s name
smirking evilly all the time, “With this!” before promptly stabstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>bingstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> the needle to his arm.
And, not quite manly
shrieks could be heard from class=SpellE>Kurenai’s office later that morning.
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Narutostyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> cursed, he decided that today was his bad
luck day; he winced when another passenger enter the Shinkasen
and squeezed into the already stuffed
train. Geez, if only he could bring his bike with
him. But after Kurenai’s evil needle he could barely
lift his arm.
Kurenaistyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> just had decidestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>dstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> to stitch his wound without giving him any
sedative! He groaned at the literally bloodied memory, and she had the audacity
want to take a big tube of his blood for blood example after that! Deciding to
throw his pride to the trashcan nearby, Naruto took
the action that any sane man would do.
He left the office by
running like hell.
Enough needle
experiences in one day. Maybe he
could go back and take the blood test tomorrow, or after Kurenai’s
rage was much much calmer.
And itstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'> style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>was just his luck when he took the train style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>thatstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> working day and traffic hour especially. class=SpellE>Naruto shifted in place, searching style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>for style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>a way to stand more properly and comfortably
with one wounded arm. He was a
bit lucky because he stood in a place
that not too far away from the door,
but he wished the mass current wouldn’t sway
his way to the wrong stop.
Sighing, the blond
stared at the window, catching a glimpse of his blue eyes therestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'> through the
reflection. Some high-school
girls were giggling when he caught their eyes from the glass. class=SpellE>Naruto sighed and stared through the window glass, not in
the mood for flirting.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>:Let’s list my luck style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>or lack thereof these daystyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>sstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>…:
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style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>:First of all… style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>gotstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> shot by that nasty mouthed woman, got a
major hangover and skin itch for almost two days… almost got a broken nose ‘coz
that PMS-ing asshole, got chewed out by baa-class=SpellE>chan and ero-jiijii style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>very style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>early in the morning,style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> gotstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> thwacked by Sarutobi-jii,
gotstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> stitched like hell by Kurenai-hakase…:
He shuddered at the latest
memory.
When the train
stopped at his destination the blond got
off from the train. Feeling the need of something sweet to enlighten his mood,
he boughtstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> some warm chocolate from the vending machine,
and drinking it contents while walking slowly through familiar streets.
Stopping in front
of his parlor, he dumped the now empty paper cup to the trash bin in front of
his store, mood lighten drastically; Naruto grinned
broadly, deciding that his bad luck that day
hadstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> already ended. He opened up the door to his
parlor, stepping in and murmuring ‘I’m back.’ cheekily in the front door.
That was before his
eyes meet with familiar onyx eyes.
“Long time no see, class=SpellE>dobe.”
“Shit-”
Nope, his bad luck
hadn’t ended yet.
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style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>---- To Be Continued ---
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>This chapter fic(s)
recommendation:
style='mso-list:Ignore'>-
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Talk to Me by Rasengan22style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> one word for this fic---
awesome!!!
style='mso-list:Ignore'>-
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>The Sound of Dream by Zrinastyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> wonderful NaruSasuNaru
fic.
style='mso-list:Ignore'>-
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Volatile by Hina88style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> another wonderful in denial and regretful class=SpellE>Sasuke class=SpellE>fic X3
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>A/N: That’s all for this chapter, honestly I don’t know when I’ll
be updating again, probably in next month or two.
I’m currently staying away from the i-net
for two weeks until I have unlimited time, so I
won’t and can’t be updating and replying to
all your reviews that frequently, but yes
I’ll still read them, and replying some of the reviews that have questionstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>sstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> in it.
Thank you for you
all who already spare your time and energy for reading and (especially)
reviewing; some of you give me a good feedback and ideastyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>sstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> –huggles- thank
you all,
Love much,
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