6after two years of putting it off she finaly decided to return to the leaf village to sell her herbs. she awoke at dawn, and started out, but she vowed to herself to find the blonde boy who had broken her wrist. she walked through the woods slowly, delibratly, thinking of how to pay him back. finaly she decided on breaking his wrist. at the time it seemed perfect.
after she sold her herbs she walked around the village, only stopping for lunch at a ramen shop. when the sun started to set she decided that she would stay here until she found him. she found a hotel, paid for the night, and planned the day to come.
when she awoke the next morning she searched all day with still no luck. she agian paid for a room, but the money from the herbs was running low, so she decided to get a job in this village. she went to a stand called ichiraku ramen, and washed dishes for 6 hours each night. she stayed for almost a week before she finnaly found who she was looking for.
she saw him walk down a street one day while she was going to work, he was agian running, but she moved in time. she would have run after him, but she needed the money.
when it was almost time for her to go "home" she heard two people sit down on the stools. she dropped the drying rag, and went to take orders, but when she saw who it was at the counter her heart stopped. his blonde hair was spiky, and his eyes were blue and energetic. his voice was quiet, she guessed he was tired from running.
the man next to him was older. he had long white hair, and his voice was loud and obnoxious, she was about to inturupt their conversation when somthing the older man said caught her atention. "i need inspiration for my next book, tomarow i'm going to the hot springs."
"what, to peek agian?" the blonde laughed.
"you know it!" the older man basically yelled it, and his face showed his thoughts all to clearly. just as he was about to say somthing else the girl slapped him across the face. the sound was loud and sharp, and all laughing stopped.
"pervert." she spat, and the two men looked to each other astonished. "now," she ground out. "what would you like?" first the blonde cleared his throat, and gave her his order, then the older man mumbled his, a red spot forming where her hand had connected. she gave the order to the cook, and went back to washing dishes. she finished just as the men were finishing their meals. she lingered until they had left, then when they were almost out of sight she folowed.
...
she watched them part ways, then folowed the blonde to his house. after he went inside she went back to the hotel. she tossed and turned all night, and before dawn she went down to his house, and waited for him to leave. she hid behind a wall, and finaly after an hour he bolted from the house, and sped down the street. it was so sudden that she almost lost him then, but she managed to keep up with him, staying far enough away to escape detection.
when he finaly stopped they were in a forest, him in the clearing, and her hiding behind the trees. just as the blonde was catching his breath a kunni shot out of the trees, missing him by a paper with, and striking the ground an inch from the girl's foot. then the white haired man came out from behind a tree, and the younger man bowed, still breathing quickly.
"i apologize for being late master jiraya, i-" the blonde gasped out every word, but jiraya inturupted him.
"you're always late!" he yelled. "for the past 2 years you spend the morning thinking about that girl, and you say your ninja traning is more important?!" the girl sat in the shadows feeling slightly sorry for this boy. "train on your own today, i have a mission." and jiraya disapeared in a puff of smoke.
the red-haired girl left as the boy started to do push-ups, and went back to the village.
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later that afternoon she returned to the forest, hoping he was still training. she carried lunch for both of them, and as she reached the clearing she didn't hear anything. afraid he had left she ran to the clearing, and as she stood on the very edge of it, breathing hard, she looked at his sleeping face as he layed spraled on the ground. for a moment she was content looking at him, handsome face, tosled hair, he looked so peacful to her. but as she was going to go hide in the trees agian she thought of a better idea. she had brought some cold water with her, she took the container it was in out of the basket, walked over to him, and dumped it right on his face.
he gasped and sat up as his eyes flung open. his eyes surveyed the surounding area, and then he saw her swinging the container, a wry smile plastered on her face.
"that's for the wrist." she scoffed, when he realised what she ment his eyes dropped to the ground.
"i'm so sorry for that, i didn't know 'till that afternoon that i had seriously hurt you, when i asked where you lived i found out you weren't from konoha. for the past 2 years i spent all my free time asking if you'd come back, but you didn't, i'd given up. then i saw you at ichiraku, but i wasn't sure, then now and... i'm sorry i'll pay you what i cost you and-" he had tried to explain in one breath, and he'd started to turn blue. as he was about to continue she reached into the basket, grabbed a rice ball, and poked his nose with it as she giggled.
"longest apology in the history of the world excepted." he took the rice ball, and smiled. "although i do have somthing you can do to repay for my wrist." she said slyly.
"i'll do anything." he said eagarly, like a little child. she realized that his kidish deminer was why she didn't break his wrist -or worse- while he had slept.
"i want to fight you, shinobi vs. shinobi." he gawked.
"now?" he said as if uncertain if he heard right.
"after lunch." she took a bite of a rice ball, and he did the same. "my name is uzumaki kushina by the way."
"mines namikaze minato, nice to meet you." they chated quitly while they ate, waiting for the fight to ensue.
A/N: ok ya yaaayyy i started agian! ummm i don't know if ne one will get this but member wen yoake was telling naruto that story? ya this is adding on to it i no its a little confusing(srry) but naruto comes back in the next chap! i hope ull like and i mite get this up faster since im writing it by hand before i type it up...alrite c ya soon! (i hope) byz!
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