23A little something (6,202 words all together) I wrote 2 years ago and never posted .
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Chapter one.
"Were home!" Naruto said.
"Yeah and just in time too, look!" Sakura said.
Naruto, sakura, and kakashi sensei all looked at the leaf village in awe. Christmas lights were everywhere it was a remarkable sight.
"Come on!'' Said Naruto. "Let's go see what everybody is up to."
They all headed into the village. "The decorations are great!" naruto said.
"Yeah! I can't wait for Christmas! How about you Naruto?"
"Yeah, I guess." He shrugged
. "What do you mean I guess? Christmas is one of the best times of the year!" Argued sakura.
"Yeah I know but, ever since I was born I've spent Christmas with perfect strangers, when I got a little older I started spending it with the third. But I guess I can't do that now. But hay! That's ok I still like the holiday. Oh look there's kiba, be right back sakura!" (His short attention span just kicked in.)
"Ok, sakura said in a low voice." I feel so sorry for Naruto sometimes. She thought. I spend so much time with him; I just forget that he doesn't have any family. He's only been back for a week, and he seam's fine, I guess.
"Hay sakura! Come here!" naruto called from a few feet away.
"Huh? Oh coming!" She ran to the blond haired boy. "What?"
"Look at what kiba's dog can do!"
Naruto, sakura, and kiba all watched kiba's dog akamaru as he flipped in the air several times.
Good boy akamaru! Kiba said.
The dog then stopped flipping and dropped to the ground, making the ground shake. "That was cool!" Naruto said. "Yeah! And for such a huge dog doing so many flips it was pretty impressive!" Sakura said.
"Thanks!" Woof! Woof! Kiba's dog barked. "Hay were gonna go, my mom is cooking Christmas Eve dinner and I don't want to be late for that!" Kiba said, mounting Akamaru.
"Ok bye Kiba!"
"Bye!" He said waving to them.
"Well I'll see you later Sakura." Naruto said, half walking away.
"Huh, where are you going?" She said.
"I'm going to go get some ramen. Why?
Just thought you'd want to spend Christmas Eve with a friend..." She said quietly.
"Oh well uh, that's ok!" He said. Naruto didn't plan on eating in the ramen restaurant, he had some place else in mind to go.
"Oh ok well I'll see you tomorrow."
"Ok bye sakura!"
"Bye," she said as he turned around and left.
Naruto ran to the ramen noodle place, got his order to go, (much to the surprise of Teuchi and Ayame) and ran to the spot where he had planned to eat.
He ran past everyone in his way, and then ran right out the village. Naruto knows he wasn't supposed to be going out the village, what with the akatsuki clan after him. However, this was a place that Naruto used to go when he was a kid, and since he had been back, he has not gone there yet and really wanted to see it.
"Wow! This place look's great." Naruto thought.
It was a beautiful place. A kind of garden with wonderful flowers, and a magnificent lake right next to a little hill. Naruto sat down next to the lake opened his bag full of ramen noodles; broke his chopstick's and started eating. And right as Naruto began to eat he spotted something on the other side of the lake.
It was somewhat hard to see because it was dark, but he was pretty sure it was Ino. He stood up and yelled
"Ino!" He said.
Sure enough, the blond haired girl looked up to see Naruto. Naruto jumped up put his noodles in the bag, slung it over his shoulder, and ran down the little hill.
"What are you doing out here by yourself!" He said to her from the other side of the lake. Ino saw him too, but didn't know what to say.
'Did he follow me here?' She thought. No, why would he do that?
And just as she was thinking, Naruto ran over the lake to her, just an inch from her face. She had no idea why but with him so close to her like that for some reason she blushed.
"Do you have a fever ino? He said. "because your cheeks are red."
"No! I don't have a fever," she said. The blond haired girl immediately stepped back so that they were not so close.
"Oh, alright." He said. "So what are you doing out here?"
"I come out here all the time, what are you doing here?"
"I used to come out here all the time when I was a kid, but since I've been back I haven't been. So here I am!"
"Wait, you used to come here when you were a kid? I used to come here all the time, and I never saw you."
"Maybe that's because I always used to climb on a tree on the other side of the lake. And watch the sun go down. But I guess the tree's been cut down."
"Oh yeah, they cut it down about a year ago". Ino said.
"Why?" Naruto asked.
"I don't know." She said rather impatiently. Naruto was making her nervous for some reason...
"Hey!" He shouted, obviously not catching her irritated tone. "You don't have your hair in a ponytail!"
"You just realized that?" Asked ino.
"Yeah, I guess I just did!" He said putting his hands behind his head; grinning. "But why don't you have you hair in a pony tail?"
She looked out at the sky.
"Because I was swimming in the lake. I like taking my hair down when I go swimming, but I lost my hair tie somewhere in the water, so that's why it's down."
"Oh, you want me to help you find it?" Naruto asked.
"No, I already looked for it so that's ok." Ino said, embarrassed.
"Oh, all right." A few long seconds went by, and Naruto was looking at ino's hair. "What are you looking at, Naruto! She slightly yelled."
"Nothing!" He said too quickly.
"Are you looking at me? Because if you are than stop cause it's creepy!"
" No, No I'm not looking at you! Why would I want to look at you!"
"What is that supposed to mean?" She asked harshly. Not that she was vain or anything... But Ino thought of her self to be one of the most beautiful girls the leaf village had in it. And found the comment of being ugly very insulting.
"How dare you call me ugly!" Ino said, getting red.
"What! I didn't call you ugly!" Naruto said. "Why would I call you ugly? You're pretty!"
What did he just say?' She thought. "You think I'm pretty?" She asked, getting even redder.
"Yeah!" He said, hoping that she wouldn't slug him as Sakura did when he said something stupid.
"Oh, well thank you." She said. Now feeling rather silly. Trying to change the subject she quickly asked, "What's in the bag Naruto?"
"Oh just some ramen, Do you want some?"
"No thanks, I'm on a diet." She said, still a little flushed.
"A diet!" Scoffed Naruto. "But I thought you and sakura were only doing that for sasuke."
"Yeah, we were at first, but no one wants' to marry a fat woman. So I'm dieting so that I can marry into a noble family. I have to be beautiful and skinny."
"But you're already pretty, and you're skinny to. So why torture yourself? Plus, you're a ninja! You could marry whoever you... Naruto stopped mid-sentence, because Ino was giving him a weird look.
'Why is Naruto being so nice to me,' she thought. "You wouldn't understand! She said. I have to look my best! All the time."
"Well I think it's stupid, if you can't fine someone who can accept you for what you are, than maybe you're not good for each other. But hey that's just my opinion! He quickly added, contemplating walking away. " So what do you do besides swim when you're up here?"
Ino still stuck from naruto's kind words didn't know what to say when he talked.
"I-I um," she managed to get out. 'Oh this is stupid! Its just Naruto.' "I pick flowers. For my family's shop."
"You have a shop?" He asked, astonished
"You didn't know?" She said in surprise. "The Yamanaka flower shop, It's only my last name!"
"Oh, well I guess up until now I never knew your last name!"
"Figures." Ino said, rolling her eyes. "When we were in ninja school you were either not paying attention when people said there full name in class, or asleep!"
"Hey! I paid attention, sometime's! Just not most of the time." He said with an embarrassed look on his face. "Well that's ok, I know your name now!
"Look its starting!" He said suddenly, pointing at the sky.
"What's starting?" She asked.
"The shooting stars!" Said Naruto , as if it was so obvious. "That's why your out here at right?"
"I didn't even know." She said.
"But it only comes once a year on Christmas Eve." He said. Glad that he wasn't the only dense one.
"Well, I guess I never realized. I always spend Christmas Eve with my family, even now I'm going back home in a minute, and shouldn't you be spending Christmas Eve with someone?" she asked, now paying a little attention to the star's.
"Yeah I guess, but all my friends are spending Christmas Eve with their family, and I don't have any family so I usually just spend it by myself." He spoke with not much emotion, but with an underlying sadness only Ino heard.
'Oh no! Why did I bring the subject of family up? I keep forgetting he doesn't have any family...'
"I'm sorry I brung it up Naruto." She said, hoping he wasn't hurt.
"Huh? Brung what up?" He said,
"Family." Ino said, in a low voice.
"Oh, that's ok I don't care!" He said, rubbing the back of his head. "I still have friends so I'm not completely alone. You want to watch the stars with me before you go, ino?" he asked quickly.
"Oh -oh um ok!"
Ino and Naruto sat down on the soft grass and watched the stars as they flew past the sky.
"It's beautiful!" Ino said.
"Yeah it is, I try to watch it every year since it only comes once." Said naruto, in a silent tone. (At least, silent for naruto)
They sat for about 10 minutes and watched the stars. They didn't talk they just watched. Ino kept thinking about what Naruto said, and how it made her feel good about herself. And just as she was thinking, she felt a heavy pressure on her shoulder. She turned around to see what it was, and to her ultimate (and I mean ultimate!) shock, it was Naruto!
He had fallen asleep on her shoulder. Her hand wanted to punch him, and make him wake up. But her heart told her not to move a mussel. So she just sat there and watched him sleep on her shoulder. As rude and airheaded as Naruto acted sometimes, and she thought he snored when he slept. But he was so peaceful, that she wouldn't dare wake him. She had no idea what to do. Should she gently push him off her shoulder and leave, or stay with him till he woke up?
But now it as becoming difficult, because she was also sleepy. She had never felt so tired and started to nod off. And before she knew it, she was asleep too.
The night was over and the sun started to rise. The bright beam of the sun woke ino up, and when she saw that she had woken up on Naruto, opened her mouth, and screamed.
Ahhh!
The loud noise woke Naruto up too, and the two blond haired ninja's were both awoke, looking at each other. Naruto still half asleep, and ino's face was beet red. She had no idea why she blushed, but when she saw how close she was to Naruto, she then knew why.
'Oh my god! I woke up in his arms!' She quickly thought to herself. "What did we do last night, what did we do!"
"Ino? Are you all right?" Naruto asked. Her little panic attack waking him up.
"Naruto don't you know what today is?"
"Yeah it's-" he stopped right in the middle of his sentence. "Hey the suns up, we slept here over night!"
And to Ino's surprise, Naruto started to laugh, he was laughing so hard he stared crying. "Oh god! I can't believe we fell asleep!"
"That's not funny Naruto! My parents must be worried sick!"
"Yeah I guess that's another reason I don't mind having parents." He said with a big grin on his face, "I wonder how we fell asleep?"
Ino then started to remember the night, and a big relief just came right on her shoulders. I remember now, we didn't do anything! 'Anything like what' She banished the thought. But Naruto did fall asleep on my shoulder! "Um I don't remember," she lied. "But I need to go home and tell my parents I'm alright."
Ino and Naruto both got up and headed into town.
The two gate keepers saw both Naruto and Ino go into town the following night, but not together, and when they saw them come out together, they thought something happened between them.
"Okay, well I'll see you later Naruto," said Ino.
"Ok bye Ino!" He waved back.
She ran to her house trying not to look back but did anyway, and when she did her face turned a nice shade of crimson, and she quickly turned back around.
'What just happened, and why do I feel this way? Maybe I need to just go home and lay down...'
As ino left for her house, Naruto soon left for his apartment.
Sakura was looking for Naruto and Ino; she had presents for them and wanted to give it to them. First, she went to Ino's house. She knocked on the door.
"Merry Christmas ino!"
Sakura said to her blond friend.
" Oh yeah merry Christmas sakura" She responded rather quietly.
'What's wrong with ino?' Sakura thought. She loves Christmas, but she looks like she just saw a ghost. "You ok ino?" Her pink-haired friend asked.
"Oh yeah, I'm fine. Come in."
Sakura came in her friend's house. Ino left the room, and when she came back, she had a present in her hand.
"Merry Christmas sakura!"
"Thanks." sakura took the present and the handed ino hers; they both opened there presents up at the same time.
"Oh these shoes are beautiful ino! Thank you!"
"I thought you might like them," ino said.
Then she opened up her gift.
"Oh it's that blouse I said I wanted last week! You got it for me, thanks Sakura!"
"Oh it was nothing."
They both gave each other a big hug.
" So I'll see you later ino, I have more presents to give."
"Bye, sakura."
Sakura left ino's house and headed for naruto's apartment. And when she got there, no one was home.
I hope he didn't go outside the village. Knowing Naruto, he probity did. Sakura went to the gate; she thought she should ask the gate keepers first. "Hello, have you seen Naruto?" She asked. They both gave each other a strange look.
"Um yeah," one of them said. But not alone."
"What do you mean not alone?" Sakura asked.
"Well last night we saw ino go outside the village, and then about an hour later we saw Naruto go out side the village. But neither one of them came back that night. Then in the morning, we saw them both of them come into the village, together." He said that last part a little quietly.
'What! Naruto and ino? But what were they doing outside of the village together. And why didn't ino tell me when I went over her house?'
Sakura thought she should go back to Ino's house, so she did. But while she was going to ino's house, so was Naruto.
He reached her house, and knocked on the door. Ino opened the door.
N-Naruto! What is he doing here? She thought.
"Merry Christmas ino!" He said to her.
He had a present in his hand and gave it to ino.
She took the present. Surprised.
"Well, I guess I'll see you later, bye ino."
He started to walk off, but for some reason ino asked:
"Do you want to come in, Naruto?"
"Huh? Really?"
"Y-Yeah, I mean you did give me a present. She said nervously. Sorry I didn't give you one but the least I can do is invite you in."
"Oh, alright." Naruto walked in her house and sat down on a sofa next to her.
She opened his present. When she did, she was so surprised she was actually speechless.
It was a beautiful sparkling red hair tie. It was so beautiful it looked priceless. "W-where did you get this?"
"I made it! Iruka sensei taught me how to make stuff like that a while ago. He said something about it being a good way to win a girl's heart, not that that's what I'm trying to do!" He added quickly towards the end.
"Anyway, I know you like tying your hair up so I made you a hair tie." He said, embarrassed.
She jumped up out of her seat and gave Naruto such a huge hug it made both blond ninja's blush. And right as they were hugging, Sakura had arrived at ino's house for an answer as to why Naruto and she were outside of the village together.
She was just about to knock when she saw that the door was open so she just walked in. she walked towered the living room where Naruto and ino were hugging. And when she saw her two friends hugging, she almost passed out in shock.
"Naruto, ino? What are you doing!"
They both got up quickly." S-sakura your back! Um Naruto was just here to give me a Christmas present, see." She showed her the tie Naruto gave her.
"Why did you and Naruto walk into the village together?" She asked. Not yet interested in anything else.
Naruto and ino both gave each other a look.
"We, we fell asleep by mistake and woke up in the woods," said ino.
"You fell asleep together? And what happened?"
"Nothing!" Said ino.
Why is ino acting so weird? Naruto thought. "Um maybe I should go. Said Naruto, here sakura I made a gift for you to."
She took it from him and opened it up. It was a picture frame with sakura Naruto and sasuke carved into it.
"You told me last week you broke your old one so I made you a new one to put that picture of us in it!"
"It's beautiful! Thank you Naruto. And sorry, I was acting so weird just now, you know me I just wanted to know what happened."
" That's ok sakura. I have to go anyway I'll see you both later."
Bye! Both sakura and ino said to the blond haired boy.
So sakura sat down and so did ino.
"So nothing happened huh?" Sakura asked.
"I,-" Ino started to say something but stopped and thought about something else to say. "Yeah, of course nothing happened! Naruto's just my friend, and that's all I think of him." Right?
Ok so..
More? I actually have a few more chapters typed out, so if you'd like me to continue, please review ^-^
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