Hey people, you probably hate me 4 not updating in a very long time but since school holidays begun, I can freely focus more on my stories now! Oh yeah I'm probably going to skip the fight with Zabuza.
Pairings:
Itachi: 24 (dang! he was suppose to be a brother like figure like Iruka...But you Itachi fans better give the other guys a chance. I kind of feel sorry for them.)
Gaara: 17 (Might be cool to do one of these)
Sasuke: 15 (Sasuke writes down another reason on 'Reasons on why Itachi should die list')
Neji: 7 (Keep it up there Neji-fans)
Some people suggested these:
SasukeXNarutoXSakura: 1 (...A love triangle)
Kyuubi: 1 (Hmm...He could be possessive)
Kakashi: 1 (They could relate since they both have connections to the Fourth)
Haku: 1 (Hmm...Sorry for Haku fans, but he's going to die but Naruto's going to have a special place for him in her heart)
Okay! On to the next chapter.
Chapter 4
Naruto stared as Kakashi explained that there's a possibility that Zabuza's alive. After they arrived in the country, they were suddenly attacked by Zabuza, Naruto much to her annoyance had to stay back and protect Tazuna while Kyuubi told her that she could learn something from Kakashi's and Zabuza's fight. When he was knocked out by a strange hunter-nin, he smelled strangely of Zabuza meaning that it was actually a comrade of the enemy. When Kyuubi told her to attack the Hunter-nin, for some reason she didn't, she did not know why but the hunter-nin had an aura similar to hers', an aura that knew sadness and lonliness, which was the only thing that stopped her from attacking him. So Kakashi's speech of Zabuza being alive was old and pointless to her, she didn't tell the others before about him already being alive because she was already busy thinking so much about the hunter-nin and his familiar aura.
Kakashi was currently training them about the tree climbing technique which she had known how to do a long time ago. So she was excused, allowing her to do her own training while Sakura who had already finished the exercise mush to the annoyance of Sasuke since he was the only one left alone, had guarded Tazuna who went shopping for food.
Naruto huffed and puffed. Around her were destroyed and cut down trees, she layed down on the grass as birds came to her. She felt so tired as she closed her eyes, Kyuubi put more chakra into her as her energy was renewed. Suddenly the birds flew away as she felt a hand shake her awake. She opened her eyes and leaned up as she stared at the person who woke her up. A boy around 14-15, two or so three years older than herself. This boy passed her senses? She never sensed him near her, this boy was good, that was certain for sure.
It was then, she suddenly noticed how feminine he looked to be easily mistaken as a girl, she also noticed he smelled familiar and so was his aura to her, Kyuubi was sleeping after he restored her energy so he couldn't help her figure out how this boy's so familiar. Naruto suddenly blushed when she FINALLY noticed how handsome the boy looks even if he did look like a girl.
"You shouldn't be sleeping out here, it's cold." The handsome mystery boy said.
"...Who are you?" Naruto blurred out before she blushed for her rudeness. But the boy just smiled.
"My name's Haku...Are you a shinobi?" As he pointed out to her hiate-headband.
"Yup! I'm Uzumaki Naruto. I'm a shinobi of Konohagakure." She grinned, she never noticed how quick she can open up to this boy when she usually just lock herself away from others.
Haku smiled, "I see. Do you have a precious person?" Which made Naruto's smile falter as confusion filled her eyes.
"Someone that is dear to you? Because if you do and have the desire to protect them, then you will truly be strong."
Naruto sat and thinked for a while as Haku's words sank into her head.
'Precious...Person?' She thought.
Flashback
"Itachi-aniki (Is it aniki or nii-san???), why do protect me from those bad people who try to hurt me?" A six year old Naruto asked her bodyguard.
"Hmm?..." Itachi looked down at her as she caught his attention.
"I mean, everybody hates me and tries to kill me all the time! Why do you protect me from them?" The little Naruto asked him this even though she knew it was an order from the Hokage himself, the old man stopped the guards from guarding her months ago yet Itachi still protects her.
Itachi tried to form his words right. "...Because you are a precious person to me." He said, sure there was Sasuke, but him and Naruto were the only precious people he had, his family only thought of him as a tool nothing else, only his naive little brother thought of him as his real family.
Naruto stared at him. "Precious..person?"
Itachi nodded. "You are someone who is dear to me, someone I wish to protect, just as I do for my little brother..." He looked away as Naruto stared at him, not noticing the light blush on his face, though you have to be a 100 Itachi obsessive fan girl stalker that stalks him all the time to notice the softness of his voice unlike his usual cold firm voice he uses around most other people.
The older figure was then hugged by the leg as he looked down only to find Naruto hugging his waist. He sighed as he patted her head.
End Flashback
"Precious...person." Naruto then looked at Haku in the eye not noticing the shock he had in it as he noticed Naruto had the same eyes as him which held sadness and loneliness, she then smiled and nodded.
"Yeah, I do. I had five of them...But one of them left me." She said the last sentence a bit sadly. Yeah, there was the old man, Iruka, Hinata, Kyuubi and...The so called traitor. Naruto was then pulled into a hug.
'Huh???'
She noticed it was Haku who was innocently smiling.
"We're the same."
"...?"
"You have an aura that's exactly like mine...Full of pain and loneliness, the feeling of being hated" Naruto's eyes widened.
'He's the same!' As she hesitantly hugged back.
They stayed there for a while, each lost in thought as Naruto got an idea. She pulled out of the hug and said "I know! Let's go on a date!"
Haku was surprised "Hmm?"
"You're the first person I met like me. And I'm not going to be here for long." She said sadly, her hand was grabbed as she was suddenly pulled up as she stared into a smiling face that obviously belonged to Haku, his eyes was closed and shaped into a upside down U similar to Kakashi's usual eye.
"Let's go..."
The day passed as they went around Wave, they looked everywhere and hanged out at this cool waterfall place Haku found days ago, they also had their picture taken by a man who takes pictures as long he gets money, similar to a photo-booth. They talked about their past and lives and found comfort in each other. They became inseparable as if they were siblings or something.
'Feh, at least she finally got a friend like her for once.' Kyuubi thought.
That night, Sasuke huffed, he's been at this darn exercise all day but no progress. He was the only on there, he had to get stronger, damn.
"Still on that? Geez teme, never knew you were so slow" A certain voice Sasuke knew all too well came above him. He glared at Naruto who was sitting on the highest tree branch he was currently trying to climb up on while grinning at him.
"Shut up dobe!" He growled, he couldn't afford to humiliate himself in front of her of all people. He then notice a tiny pink seashell necklace around her neck, he was about to ask about it since he never saw it before but was cut off since she asked him something first.
"How about I help you out a bit?" Sasuke looked confused.
'..What? She's helping me?'
"What's the matter? Too stubborn with that Uchiha pride of yours?"
He growled "Shut up! I rather screw you dobe!"
He then notices her blush while glaring at him. "What?" He asked.
But she continued to glare at him "Do you know how wrong that sounds you pervert!?"
Dinner was set, everybody was there except Naruto and Sasuke.
"Where are those two?" Sakura asked before the door opened as Naruto came in while helping Sasuke whose arm was around her shoulder as she helped carry him since he was so damn tired from using all his chakra up. Then they all noticed they both each had a blush on their face.
"What's wrong Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asked worriedly as the two late-comers sat down.
"Nothing..." He said.
"Feh! Yeah right...Pervert" Naruto muttered to herself. Sasuke glared at her and soon a glaring contest began. The others looked at each other, did something happen?
"Did you finish the exercise Sasuke?" Kakashi asked. Sasuke broke the contest as he looked at his sensei and nodded.
As they all began to eat, Kakashi wondered about the remark Naruto said earlier as she called Sasuke a pervert. Did Sasuke do something perverted in any way to Naruto?
Suddenly Inari banged on the table as he stood up crying. He then started blabbing all these nonsense of them getting killed by Gatou.
"Are you done yet?" Naruto asked patiently while she stared at the little boy.
"Why are you so calm!? You're all going to die!"
"...Crybaby." Inari then ran off into another room but Naruto just ignored him.
"Naruto! You're so harsh!" Sakura said but stopped when Naruto glared at her, her blue and gold eyes scared her. Sakura didn't want to offend her but Naruto had the eyes of a demon.
"That boy has to learn that life is NEVER fair to ANYONE." Kakashi and Sasuke didn't say anything because they agreed with her. Tsunami cleaned the dishes and apologized to them about Inari's behavior as she left to seek her son. They were then informed of Inari's history-life by Tazuna.
Everyone was silent until Kakashi remembered Naruto's training.
"Naruto how was your day?" All of a sudden, Naruto smiled happily.
"Fine, in fact it was great! I finished my training hours ago!" He blinked. The others wondered why she was so hyped up.
"Then what did you do the other half of the day?" Naruto was still smiling as she looked at him.
"I went on a date."
Silent...
"NANI!?" Everybody shouted but Naruto simply smiled and took out a picture out of the small mini bag she had and showed it to them as they eagerly looked at it. There in the picture was shown were a close up of two people's heads, one of them was obviously Naruto, the other was a woman with long black hair and brown eyes, they we're smiling. In the background was the outline of a beach, the shores of Wave, the sky was orange and you can see the sun setting a bit.
Everybody blushed. The girl was cute but for some reason Sakura A GIRL was blushing worse than the guys for some reason Sakura herself did not know why.
"Man, that's one fine looking lady for a friend you got there." Tazuna stated staring at the older girl in the picture. They all thought when Naruto said 'date', she meant hang out with a new friend she met or in a female's term 'girlfriend' but not literally dating of course.
Naruto closed her eyes as she drank a sip of her tea, "Who said it was a girl?" This got everyone's attention.
"Huh?" They all stared at her. Naruto simply put her cup down, took the picture out of their hands, showed it them while pointing a finger at the brunette in the picture while staring at them.
"...This is a guy." She said the words slowly so they could comprehend what she said.
They all stared at her with gigantic white eye balls. Immediately, Tazuna who was mid-way of drinking his bottle of sake spat it out at Sakura while choking some of it down, Kakashi whose shown eye was huger than it normally was stared at the picture quickly took his hiate off and stared at the photo with his sharingan making sure there was no genjutsu, Sakura's jaw was hung open and hit the floor until she came out of it as Tazuna spat sake all over her much to her displeasure. Sasuke on the other hand was glaring at the male in the photo, no one noticed the signs of jealously he had in his eyes as he stared at the guy which a dreaded aura.
"Seriously!?" Tazuna asked. Naruto nodded and then Kakashi who put his hiate down and finally found proof of this person's gender.
"It's a guy alright, the lump on his throat proves it."
Sakura cried 'How did Naruto get a super-hot guy like him on a date!?' She thought, true enough, the guy's features could rival her precious Sasuke-kun.
Sasuke on the other hand was staring at the male in the photo who they finally found his name to be Haku as Naruto told them with a hard look as he sulked in the corner with a gloomy aura and expression on his face.
Kakashi sweat dropped as he watched his students. Tazuna was still staring at Haku.
Hey everyone! I know you guys hate me 4 not updating 4 a very long time but I thank you those who were loyal and stayed by my story's side, Oh and SPOILER: Wave arc finishes next chapter and Haku dies! ; ;
Don't forget to update, u guys like my flashback with Itachi right? Most reviewers want him to be paired with Naruto even though he was originally a brother like figure, oh well, VOTE!