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Unexpected Love	By : jupmod Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female Views: 28539 -:- Recommendations : 3 -:- Currently Reading : 10
Disclaimer: The Naruto series and all Naruto characters are the copyright of Masashi Kishimoto. I’m just borrowing them to write up a story with no intention of making any money. This is for fun. :)

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Disclaimer: The Naruto series and all Naruto characters are the copyright of Masashi Kishimoto. I’m just borrowing them to write up a story with no intention of making any money. This is for fun. That’s all. :) No copying of my story is allowed. That's stealing if anyone copies my story into his/her own story. Write your own story without taking others' works! (angry glare)
Story rating: M (R)(for sexual themes)

Written: February 2009 - July 2010
Summary: Love can pop up unexpectedly with someone you least imagine to fall for. NaruTen.
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Unexpected Love

Chapter 2 – A Year Older and Wiser

By JuPMod (aka JPMod)
“I’ll see you tonight, Mom!” Tenten called out to her mother before dashing out of their store’s front entrance, heading toward the Memorial Stone training field. Since she was in great shape, the young kunoichi jogged toward her destination without using any chakra. She took pride in this, since it meant her endurance would last longer in a battle compared to two years ago.
It was not the only thing the brunette was proud about herself. Ever since she had started training Naruto three weeks ago in kenjutsu, she became more confident in herself as a teacher. Her blond friend was attentive when she was able to describe the stances of a style in ways that he could understand. Get too technical and her student would be lost. It made her wonder if she has what it took to be a jounin-sensei.
Speaking of her student, Tenten had to admit that she was tad jealous of the boy. Like every Konoha ninja at the time, she had heard of Naruto’s Kage Bushin Training technique, when he had undergone his elemental chakra training under Kakashi and Yamato. It was absolutely amazing that one could able to accelerate one’s training and knowledge by using Kage Bushin. To finally see Naruto using that technique during their training exercise was remarkable.
Tenten smirked as she left the village and headed toward the training fields. “Just too bad Kage Bushin can’t transfer physical conditioning to the original owner. They maybe great to learn the stances, but they do not give nothing when it comes to physically getting use to wielding the swords.” Konoha’s Weapons Mistress giggled upon remembering Naruto’s reaction. “He was disappointed upon hearing that, but he certainly didn’t complain upon knowing he would be spending more time with me.”
Her giggling expression became a warm one upon recalling that. Naruto has become a great friend ever since she had met him a decade ago, when he had first came to her family’s store. It was sad that she was so used to training with her then-friends at the time, she didn’t even thought of maybe inviting Naruto to train with her. After one time seeing Naruto trained with Lee, Tenten had been convinced the hyperactive shinobi was a hard worker, and the past several weeks, she had been enjoying her training sessions with Naruto so much, that she has been looking forward to them.
Upon arriving at the training field, the bun-haired brunette quickly spotted the object of her thoughts, as he practiced the kenjutsu stances by himself not far from the Memorial Stone. With a fond smile, Tenten has to admit that her friend has gotten some of the stances of the style down pact, but he still has some ways to go. He certainly has come a long way from the loudmouth little kid he was when he was a genin.
“Not to mention he grew to be quite handsome,” she mentally added, before the young woman immediately blinked. “What am I saying?” Tenten thought before frowning. “I certainly do not mind admiring a strong bod on a guy, but this is Naruto here.” A sigh escaped her mouth just before her lips formed a tiny self-chastened grin. “Tenten girl, you have to just admit that he certainly is eye candy now.”
Eying the so-called ‘eye candy’, Tenten knew that Naruto’s wardrobe also has improved over time. That orange/blue jacket and orange pants he wore, as a genin, were the worst color combo a shinobi would wear. His shinobi attire improved somewhat after his training trip with Jiraiya, but still, he wore too much orange. The addition of the red haori after his Toad Sage training was okay, even if it did clashed with the orange. Today, as a chuunin, he wore black pants and black shirt with orange stripes going down the length of the arms and pants. His chuunin vest was over the shirt, and the red haori topped the outfit. His present ninja wear certainly was a vast improvement than six years ago.
Of course, the kunoichi of Team Gai knew he has grown physically as well. Despite he was a year younger than her; he was a head taller than her now compared to when he was 15 years old, and this was only if she wasn’t wearing high heels, for if she was wearing high heels, he would be half-a-head taller than her. His baby fat was gone, leaving smooth hard lines on his angular face, which was surrounded by his golden hair that was more shaggy and wild. Top all that with an athletic, lean, muscled body, and one ended up with a handsome man any woman would drool over.
Mentally shaking herself out of the reverie, Tenten approached her friend, who opted just to wear a simple torso-hugging black t-shirt over the usual black pants, while his haori lay next to the Memorial Stone. “Morning, Naruto.”
“Morning, Tenten,” Naruto smiled as he returned the greeting. “Ready to start another training day? I certainly am looking forward to it.”
Tenten snorted a laugh. “You just can’t wait to see whether you can win one over me.” Her face became smug as she gazed up into his eyes. “In your dreams, Mister. As I said, you will not ever win a straight kenjutsu fight with someone like me without resorting to ninjutsu.”
“We’ll see about that, Weapons Girl,” he teased back. “Uzumaki Naruto will not ever give up! Dattebayo!”
Laughing, Tenten sure highly approved of those who were not quitters, and Naruto certainly was not a quitter. “We’ll see about that,” she replied prior to detaching her weapons scroll from her back and unrolling it to unseal a pair of kodachis into her hands. “Let me warm up, and then we’ll spar to see where you need improvement.” The blond nodded his understanding.
So after her warm-up minutes later, the pair began sparring thus beginning Naruto’s training. By sparring, Tenten could see where he done wrong, and by telling him where he needed to correct his movements by adjusting his arms and legs, the young female ninja helped improved her friend’s skills. It was a morning routine they eventually fell into only after the first two training days.
Lunch was a time for relaxation prior to the afternoon workout. Both had agreed to bring their lunches after their second training day since it was a waste of time to go back to the village for lunch and then immediately run back. By bringing their lunches, they could relax in each other’s company, debriefed about the morning lessons, and prepared for the afternoon.
Afternoon sessions mostly have Naruto used his Kage Bushin to kenjutsu spar one another to utilize what he has learned in the morning. Most bushins would do this, while the original and a single bushin would use the original chakra kodachis to practice molding wind chakra into the blades and try to create wind jutsus. In the meantime, Tenten would be fighting off a horde of Naruto Kage Bushins to help keep her overall fighting skills razor sharp, for she had found Naruto’s Kage Bushins made ideal practice partners to aim her weapons at. After all, she did not need to worry about hurting the real Naruto or anyone, thus she could go all out on the bushins as much as she pleased.
Blades of wind slashed through a mid-size tree, pieces of it falling down around the stump of the trunk. Naruto grinned in satisfaction that he has made some progress with employing his wind chakra through the kodachi. He did not know whether he would able to pull off a wind jutsu that could be just as destructive as his Futon: Rasen-Sheriken while in Sage Mode, but if he could, least he would not have to go into Sage Mode to use such powerful techniques.
Taking a break, Naruto looked across the field to where Tenten was still battling his Kage Bushins. They certainly were giving her a run for her money, since they weren’t just rushing her like a bunch of buffoons. They were organizing themselves into collective groups to work together to try to overwhelm her strategic wise. Of course, it did help her that the clones weren’t using ninjutsu or else she really would have been overwhelmed.
A fond grin spread on Naruto’s face, as he admired his female friend’s abilities. Tenten was the first girl near his age that truly took it seriously when it came to being a kunoichi, thus why she took her training seriously as well. It had taken Sakura and Ino some time before each had started taking things seriously. Hinata was okay, but she, at first, just didn’t have the determination until she was motivated. Tenten had the drive and determination from the start, and such a strong work ethic was something Naruto admired heavily in a person.
As Tenten landed to avoid being caged again by the Naruto clones, her back facing the original Naruto, the blond was treated to a good view of the girl’s shapely butt. A tint of pink formed on his cheeks before Naruto looked away with a small, somewhat-leering chuckle.
Over the years, Naruto has developed a healthy respect for the opposite gender. Oh, he was not ever a pervert, as his late Sannin sensei was, so he would not ever peek into the women’s baths or into people’s windows. Yet, being a hormone male, like any other man, he certainly enjoyed looking at the feminine forms of women, especially the kunoichi. It just so happened that he had been so focused on Sakura that he only just in recent months started noticing others, and Tenten, for sure, has one well-toned, shapely body.
Naruto mentally slapped himself out of such thoughts. Of course, Tenten would have evolved into a striking young woman from the girl he had met years ago. Her kunoichi outfit also had changed over time along with her physical development.
As a genin, she had looked sort-of cute in her pink, Chinese, short-sleeved shirt, dark pants, and simple shinobi shoes. At the time, she had carried her weapons in two small scrolls.
After he had come home from his training trip, Tenten had been promoted to chuunin with a whole new outfit. She worn white, full-sleeved, Chinese blouse, red pants, and heeled kunoichi sandals. Her two small storage scrolls had been replaced with the single large one, which she still used today.
Today, her current attire was quite eye catching. Black, hugging pants outlined her toned, feminine legs, while a short-sleeved, short-skirted, white, Chinese, form-fitting dress covered her curvy upper body with a black, waist belt. Her feet were adored with kunoichi high-heeled sandals. Finishing the assembly, silver metal bracelets were on her forearms with black, fingerless gloves. In such an outfit, it was hard for the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki to not notice how physically attractive the weapons mistress has become.
Feeling a large number of people surrounding him from the sides and back, Naruto blinked upon realizing all his clones, except those fighting Tenten, were besides him and looking at the good-looking female ninja. It didn’t take long before the comments started flying from the 21 Kage Bushins.
“Wow, Tenten certainly has one hot bod,” one clone began.
“Look at that butt!” another leered.
“Check out her chest. She must be equal to Temari’s size.”
With one eye ticking, Naruto quickly raised his left hand into a typical two-finger form and dispelled the clones around him with a mental ‘Kai’ command. He absorbed the clones’ knowledge with ease; before he picked up the fallen second kodachi and dropped down to sit cross-legged on the ground to meditate. “Why do my clones have to be such wise-guys and perverts?” he mentally groused, trying not to over think on the fact that his kunoichi friend was quite sexy. The young man swore the spirit of Ero-sennin was now laughing at him.
“Naruto?” Tenten’s voice roused the blond, realizing some time has passed since he started meditating. He looked up at Tenten’s grinning face as she stood before him. “It’s almost 5 now. Time to go.”
Returning her grin with his own, the blond man stood up before sheathing his kodachis. “Need help getting your weapons?”
Tenten shook her head. “No. Your remaining clones helped recovered them,” she replied while thumbing over her shoulder to the few Kage Bushins, who waved cheekily at the original before dispelling.
After shaking his head amusedly at his clones’ antics, Naruto focused again on his kenjutsu teacher. “Tenten?” Seeing he has her attention, he continued. “I know we’re going to be having a small party at 7 at your place to celebrate your 19^th birthday today, just I like to take you out to dinner before that. Is this okay with you?”
Brown eyes went wide in shock. “Are you asking me out on a date?” She just couldn’t believe what she was hearing. Naruto! Naruto, out of all the guys she knew, was asking her out on a date!
Blue eyes blinked in confusion. “What?” Upon realizing what she was referring, Naruto began nervously chuckling. “No, no, I’m not asking you out on a date,” he grinned while rubbing the back of his head. “I like to buy you dinner as a birthday present as well as my way in saying thanks for training me in kenjutsu.”
“Oh,” Tenten said, chastening herself mentally in believing the blond man was asking her out on date. Knowing what he really meant, she aimed a small, thankful grin at her friend. “You don’t have to buy me dinner, Naruto. I said before I am happy to help you out as a friend, and I meant it. You don’t need to feel obligated to me.”
Naruto happily shrugged. “It’s nothing really. I’m more than willing to buy you dinner.” Seeing that she looked like she was giving in to the idea, he pressed forward. “So, where do you want to eat? As I said, I’m paying for it.”
Lips in a wry smirk, Tenten thought about it and truly couldn’t see anything wrong with the proposal. Even if it was not a date, it would be nice to spend more time with Naruto prior to meeting the rest of their friends at her home. His company and his willingness to pay for the meal was a deal she couldn’t pass up.
“Fine, I’ll accept the dinner, Naruto,” the birthday girl commented, earning her a broad grin from the whisker-faced man before her. “Meet me at Ichiraku’s in one hour.”
“Ichiraku’s?” Naruto blinked. “I know that is not your favorite restaurant, Tenten. You do not have to feel the need to go there just for me.”
“I know,” Tenten replied, “it’s just I haven’t been there in a long time, and I haven’t had ramen since that last time I’ve been there. Also I want to see how they are doing.”
Not wanting to be a fool to pass up this opportunity to eat at his favorite restaurant, Naruto shrugged with a friendly grin. “If you’re okay with it, Ichiraku’s it is then.”
“Good,” she grinned in satisfaction. “Now go home to clean yourself up and change.” Her expression became a mock serious one, her eyes twinkling in teasing amusement. “I am not going to go out to dinner all sweaty and smelly, and neither should you. Got it?”
“Yes, ma’am,” Naruto cheekily saluted with a wink, earning him a giggle from his kunoichi friend.
After walking over to pick-up his haori, Naruto used the Shunshin no Jutsu to teleport to his apartment, and a moment later, Tenten, her large weapons scroll in hands, did the same to get to her home. When it came to making the most out of time given, all shinobi in the village certainly agreed that the Shunshin was quite a time saver.
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The uncooked and cooked food could be smelled through the air. The sounds of talking and other noises could be heard all around. The movement of people could be seen as they walked about their businesses up and down the streets and weaving in-and-out of stores and other businesses. This was the way things were in the busy shopping & business sections of Konoha, for like any other village, people needed to shop and conduct business almost every day. It was a way of life that had existed, since the dawn of civilization.
For one particular restaurant, it was business as usual, as its owner, his daughter, and one or two employees continued to prepare meals ordered by their customers. Ever since he has founded his business when he was young, the owner was known for making the most delicious ramen in all of Konoha. He and his restaurant even managed to be listed as the #1 place in all of Fire Country for the best ramen around. This was the way of life for Ichiraku Teuchi, his daughter Ayame, and the Ichiraku Ramen Stand.
Yet things have changed a lot for the ramen stand, ever since the Akatsuki member Pain has attacked Konoha two to three years ago. Like most of the village, the tiny stand had been destroyed, and Teuchi had to rebuild from scratch with whatever little remains savaged from the wreckage of business and home.
However, a great benefactor came in the form of their best customer, Uzumaki Naruto. When Konoha’s greatest hero has heard of his favorite restaurant’s destruction, he found a way to generate the much-needed money for Teuchi to rebuild. Sometime after Akatsuki’s final defeat, the young shinobi went to the nearest gambling town from Konoha and in one day, won a great deal of money, which he contributed all to the rebuilding of Ichiraku’s. Both Teuchi and Ayame had been flabbergasted to the amount they had been given, for it was more than enough to rebuild their restaurant bigger and better than it was before. They felt they would be forever in Naruto’s debt, but the young man told them he was the one who would forever be in their debt for their friendship.
So, Ichiraku Ramen Stand had been rebuilt at a new location at the bottom of a small hill, which connected two business streets via a staircase. It was rectangle in shape, enabling to seat 11 people around the left, front, and right sides under overhangs for weather protection, and the interior was roomier to allow more equipment and breathing room for employees. Lights were situated underneath the overhangs and all around the place for great illumination at night. Last, but not least, a two-story residential home was built behind the restaurant for Teuchi and his daughter. Overall, the new Ichiraku Ramen Stand was indeed bigger and better than it was before.
As the sun began to set over the horizon and the lights of the village flickered on to light the increasing darkness, a blond male chuunin teleported into the tiny clearing between Ichiraku’s and the hill, and then with a grin, he walked toward the left side of the ramen stand. There, Teuchi’s daughter, who he considered a big sister ever since he was little, greeted him warmly.
“Hello there, Naruto-kun!” Ayame chimed, taking in his off-duty attire of black slacks and black t-shirt with an orange Uzumaki spiral on the front.
“Hi there, Ayame-neechan!” Naruto greeted in return, before he settled in the center of the three stools situated on the left side of the stand.
“So what will it be?” the older girl asked. Her father, who was standing behind the cooking equipment, also waited to hear what his favorite customer would order, so he could start on it right away.
Naruto shook his head. “Not yet. I’m waiting for Tenten to arrive. I promised her dinner to celebrate her birthday and as way of thanks for her helping me with my training.” He placed the tiny box in his hand behind a napkin dispenser to hide it from view.
This news from Naruto raised the eyebrows on both Ichirakus’ faces. Their young friend had told them that he was undergoing training in kenjutsu by his female friend Tenten, not to mention it was also one of the subjects going around on the Konoha Rumor Mill. Now, here was Naruto offering dinner to his female friend. They wonder how long it would be until the speculations started running wildly.
After a few minutes of waiting, a feminine voice called out to the blond shinobi. “Naruto!”
Konoha’s Jinchuuriki swiveled on his stool to watch Konoha’s Weapons Mistress approached from the hillside staircase. “Hi there, Tenten!” he welcomed, taking in her attire of black slacks, black sleeveless Chinese blouse with gold trim, and feminine high-heel sandals meant for off-duty use. The pink lip-gloss and touch of blue eye shadow made her face quite pretty. “You’re looking good tonight, Weapons Girl.”
Tenten blushed at the compliment. “Thanks, Naruto,” she smiled, and then she sat on the stool to his right.
To the bun-haired girl, the attire and make-up was mostly for the party after dinner, but the pleased look on Naruto’s face and his praise made Tenten felt like she had done it for him. She couldn’t help but feel a giddy pleasure in thinking this.
A friendly grinning Ayame stepped up to the pair. “Well, now that the birthday girl is here,” Tenten felt her cheeks blushed a bit more, “can Dad and I get your orders?”
After Naruto gentlemanly gestured for her go first, Tenten placed her order. “One bowl of miso please along with some saké.”
The blond ticked off his fingers as he placed his order. “I’ll have one miso, one chicken, and one beef. Oh, some saké for me as well.”
“Coming right up!” Teuchi called out. He began preparing his two customers’ order, while Ayame quickly brought out a bottle of saké and two sake saucers.
Picking up the saké bottle, Naruto politely poured some for Tenten and then for himself, and after placing down the bottle, he held up his saucer toward his friend, who held up hers. “A toast to you, Tenten! Happy Birthday!”
“Thank you,” Tenten grinned, before they gently clinked their saucers together before drinking down the liquid.
“So,” the brunette began while refilling her saucer, “do you think you’ll eventually able to master the kenjutsu style I’m teaching you and create some wind-style jutsus? You’re doing well so far.”
“Thanks!” her blond companion beamed. “I’ll master that style and create awesome wind jutsus that will blow the competition away that Baachan will have to promote me to Jounin! Dattebayo!”
Tenten chuckled at his enthusiasm. “Are you saying you’ll apply to take the jounin exam this year?” she joked.
Blinking, Naruto thought about it, before a serious grin spread across his face. “Yeah, I want to see whether I can get that promotion to jounin.”
“Are you serious?” Tenten asked, not believing what she was hearing. Seeing the look in those blue eyes, she sighed with a tiny grin. “You are serious. I was just joking, Naruto.”
Naruto chuckled. “Yeah, I know. Just maybe I should go for that promotion. After all, many of our superiors said that I have the skill and power level of an elite jounin or kage.”
“Just because you have the power level of a kage or jounin, doesn’t mean you are kage or jounin material,” Tenten softly chided. “Remember Neji? During that first Chuunin Exam, he shown he has the power and skill level of a chuunin, but he was passed for promotion. Why? He just didn’t have the maturity of a leader at the time.” Her lips curled into a smirk. “It took you beating him up to get that stick out of his ass in order for him to understand his personality faults.” Naruto chuckled at the memories of that day.
Their conversation was interrupted when Ayame appeared with their ramen. After thanking her, the pair each picked up a pair of chopsticks from the chopsticks holder, snapped the individual sticks apart, and called out “Itadakimasu!” before digging into their meals.
As they ate for a few minutes in comfortable silence, Tenten noticed that Naruto least was not eating his ramen like he was starving. She remembered how much a pig he was when he was younger, especially when it came to Ichiraku ramen. Least he has matured somewhat when it came to his eating habits. Of course, she chuckled to herself, that this didn’t mean he hasn’t stopped eating more than one bowl per mealtime.
After slurping up some noodles, the young kunoichi decided to restart their discussion. “As I was saying before, Naruto, you need to show more than skills and power in order to prove yourself worthy of a promotion. Are you really up to the challenge?”
“You bet!” Naruto answered with a wink, which made his friend chuckled as she shook her head. After slurping up some more noodles, he spoke what was on top of his mind. “What about you? Do you want to get promoted to jounin?”
The question made Tenten paused in her meal, her mind pondering over the subject. Only after a minute of thinking, did she give her friend an answer. “It’s something to aim for, I admit. I would love to become one of the best kunoichi in the village, following Tsuande-sama’s footsteps. The best of the best.”
“Why don’t you?” Naruto casually stated before slurping up more noodles.
“What?” Tenten went wide-eyed at his suggestion. Did he say what she heard he said?
Blue eyes locked on uncertain brown ones. “Take the promotion exam, Tenten. It doesn’t hurt to try. You’re strong and smart, so I know you can make it, if you give it your best shot.”
The combination of his words and his warm smile of encouragement slowly raised her confidence; making the chuunin kunoichi slowly produced a determined grin. What did she have to loose for trying? “You’re right. I will give it my best shot.”
“That’s the spirit!” Naruto smiled broadly. He then raised his bowl to drink down the broth before placing it down with a satisfying sigh.
As her golden-haired companion started to dig into his second ramen bowl left by Ayame during their conversation, Tenten resumed her meal while thinking on the goal of getting that promotion. It was not going to be easy, given the tests for jounin promotions were a lot tougher than the chuunin exams. A frown marred her face, thinking she has her work cut out for her.
Seeing her frown, Naruto paused his eating. “What’s wrong?” he asked at the same time Tenten drank down her sake.
Tenten shrugged, refilling her saucer. “Naruto, to be honest, it’s not going to be easy to get promoted to jounin. I’m thinking of what ways I should prepare myself.”
The blond man thought about it for a moment before replying. “How about broadening your skills? Other than the basics, do you know any ninjutsu?” Tenten shook her head. “Well, you can start by focusing on jutsus that matches your element.”
“You mean my elemental chakra?” she asked. Naruto nodded, and a moment later, Tenten nodded in return. “That’s a good start, I admit.”
“Great!” exclaimed the pleased Hokage-wannabe. “I can help you in that. As you helped me broaden my skills by teaching me kenjutsu, I’ll help you broaden your skills by teaching you ninjutsu.”
A thankful smile creased across Tenten’s face. “Thanks, Naruto.” His response was to give his well-known broad fox smile with eyes closed. “Just you have to wait until next month to start teaching me. I forgot to tell you earlier that my team and I have a mission tomorrow, and it’s highly likely we will be gone for several weeks “
“No problem,” Naruto complied with an accepting grin. “Starting next month, we’ll be helping each other broaden our skills. We’ll work together to get that promotion. Deal?” he finished with his saké saucer raise toward her.
“Deal,” Tenten grinned warmly back and touched her saucer with his to seal the promise.
After sealing the deal and sipping down their drinks, the two friends returned to their meals in good spirits as the last rays of the sun disappeared over the horizon and night came fully to the village. The pair ate and enjoyed each other’s company under the starry sky.
Many minutes later, after all the food and drink have been consumed, Tenten was giggling along with a snickering Naruto. “I didn’t know you had one of Gai-sensei’s green, spandex suits in your closet! Did he really give it to you?” she smiled broadly.
“Yeah, he did,” Naruto confessed before shrugging a bit. “I was naïve back then, and I’d thought it looked cool. Ero-sennin obvious thought it was horrible. I think I kept the suit to get back at him more than how it looked cool. I’m glad though I grew-up to know better to wear such an outfit.”
“Ha!” Tenten grandly laughed. “This coming from a boy who used to wear a ninja outfit with too much orange.”
“Okay, okay!” Naruto chuckled, holding his hands up in surrender. “I heard enough of that from everyone. However,” he pointed to the grinning girl, “I still love the color, no matter what, so don’t you go dissing the orange.” Tenten giggled some more at his silliness.
Glancing at the big wall clock mounted on the rear wall of the stand, so everyone could see it no matter where they sat or stood, Team Gai’s female member sighed, realizing the time. “We better get going, Naruto, if we need to get back to my home in time for the party.” She really had a good time, thus she wished time would have last longer for them.
Realizing what she meant, Naruto pulled out the tiny box from its hiding spot behind the napkin dispenser and presented it to the stunned birthday girl. “Happy Birthday, Tenten,” he grinned warmly.
“Oh, Naruto,” Tenten smiled slightly as she took the box.
Opening the top, feminine fingers ventured inside and pulled out a silver necklace a moment later. Tenten gasped at the elegance of the long chain and the tiny silver and gold kunai & shuriken hanging off the chain’s front. It shined and glimmered like it was made for a high-class woman attending a ball.
“Naruto,” she softly spoke with shock brown eyes boring into blues ones, “how much did you pay for this? It’s beautiful!”
With a small grin, the Hero of Konoha took the necklace and placed it around his friend’s neck to click the ends behind the blouse’s neck. The front, where the small kunai & shuriken hung, curved around the blouse’s neck to settle over the collarbone. Pulling back to look at her, the blond spoke out what he thought. “It suits you, Tenten.”
Tenten couldn’t form words at the moment as she placed a hand over the necklace, fingers tracing the tiny jewelry weapons. She had received jewelry from her mother and female friends over the years, but none from any of her male friends, not even Neji, who gave her a set of pink kunai for her 18^th birthday at the time he was her boyfriend. It was nice to receive weapons and other kunoichi items, given it told Tenten that people were taking her seriously as a ninja. However, it would be nice if any of the guys would also see her as a woman, and for the first time, Naruto was acknowledging her as one with a present meant for a woman, not a kunoichi.
His voice brought the dazed young woman back to reality. “It didn’t cost me an arm or a leg, if that is what you’re asking, Tenten, yet it’s not dirt cheap either. I did pay extra due that the necklace was a special order I placed a month ago for the jewelry maker. I knew your birthday was coming up, and I’d wanted to give you something special than the usual presents of weapons or other ninja gear.”
Feeling overwhelm by her emotions, Tenten just couldn’t help but let her feelings guide her as she leaned over to kiss Naruto on the cheek. “Thank you, Naruto,” she smiled brightly at the young man, who was stunned by her actions. He was so sweet and kind that she felt he rightfully deserved the kiss.
Cheeks pinking, Naruto mentally shook himself out of his shock and let a warm grin came to his face as he stared into the radiant expression of his kunoichi friend. “You’re welcome, Tenten.”
With her inner being in high spirits, the 19-year-old birthday girl hopped off the stool and gestured to the blond man to follow her. “Come on. Pay for the dinner, and we’ll walk to my home together. I don’t feel like rushing back.”
“Yes, ma’am,” Naruto replied cheekily with a wink, which earned him a small, warm laugh from the happy woman before him.
After dishing out Gama-chan, his frog wallet, and paying for the dinner, Konoha’s Jinchuuriki and Weapons Mistress strolled away from the ramen stand and casually took their time as they walked side-to-side in each other’s warm company. The night was beautiful and brisk with the stars twinkling overhead.
As the two young adults walked up the stairs to the street on top of the hill, two pairs of eyes watched them with keen interest from Ichiraku’s.
“Naruto-kun is such a gentleman and sweetheart,” Ayame dreamily sighed while cleaning up the counter where Naruto and Tenten had sat. “I’m surprised he has yet to have a girlfriend.”
Teuchi slyly smirked while preparing the meals for few other customers. “Oh, I don’t know about that, Ayame dear. I say it’s only a matter of time now before he has one.”
The brown-haired ramen woman blinked in confusion at her father, until it dawned to her what he meant. She turned back in time to watch Naruto and Tenten reached the top of the stairs and eventually disappeared from view. A warm grin slowly spread across Ayame’s face, now thinking along the same lines as her father.
“Father maybe is right. It’s only a matter of time,” she mentally said as she went about her business in a good mood, wondering how long it would be until it two young hearts would become one.
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TBC (End of Chapter 2)
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