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Our Truths	By : Strailo Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 12559 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Title: Our Truth
Fandom: Naruto
Part: 48
Characters: Choji, Naruto
Word count: 1921
Warnings: Nothing
AN: I caught a frickin' frackin' cold. *whines* This sucks. Big time. But I hope you still enjoy.

So enjoy.

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Sighing as he stepped out of the meditation room into the quiet of the house, Naruto rolled his shoulders with a groan, rubbing at them as he listened for anyone that was still awake. Finding that they had all retired to their own rooms, he smiled to himself before heading to the kitchen, intent on making some tea for himself and something light to eat.

Stepping into the dark kitchen, he took a moment to set the light dimmer to give himself light without flooding the hallway with it. He knew from experience that it could filter into the closer bedrooms since the light tended to bounce on the freshly painted walls. Thus why when he had all of the rooms redone, he had put dimmer switches in along with the normal light switches. So far, they were well liked.

Walking to the stove, he picked up his kettle, shaking it to check how much water was in it before he moved to the sink to fill it with water. Humming softly, he put the kettle onto the stove and allowed it to heat as he pulled down a tea bag and a cup, dropping the bag into it. He smiled at the ease of using a tea bag, especially so late at night when he didn’t want to mess with loose leaf. He still prefered the loose leaf though.

After the water started to boil and he poured it into the cup, he placed the kettle onto a cold burner to cool before heading for the back door, sliding it open. He smiled at finding that Crow had taken to lounging back on the swinging bench with a small light next to him and book in hand. “Got the night duties?” he asked softly.

Crow turned to face him but shook his head. “I couldn’t sleep so I sent Gai-san to bed since he’s been going on nothing but coffee and sheer will power because of the bullshit that’s been going on,” he admitted, picking up his coffee cup with a smirk. He shrugged as he lifted the mask slightly to sip his coffee. “Thinking hard?” he asked, getting a better look at Naruto.

Naruto sighed but nodded, sitting down next to his friend and played with his tea bag, eyes thoughtful as he watched the flowers sway under the moonlight as a breeze moved through the garden. “Did you know that it was my mother who planted all of those flowers?” he asked. Choji shook his head, finally just pulling his mask and set it aside.

“No, I didn’t know that. They’re really pretty,” he said, his eyes taking in the vibrancy of the colors and the fact that he hadn’t ever seen any of them growing in Konohagakure.

“And I can tell you that not a single one is native to this part of the world,” Naruto hummed, smiling slightly. “There’s a place in the Land of Lightning that’s near Kumogakure that isn’t touched because of all of the plants that live there. They grow so well here because our land, like that bit of land, is naturally rich in chakra. They grow so vibrantly because it seeps into the very land around them, even here.”

“Wow. Are there any reasons why they’re not touched?” Choji asked. Naruto pulled his tea bag out of the cup in his hand, squeezing it before he dropped it into a small trash can that sat under the swing.

“It’s because of their medical properties,” he admitted, nibbling at his bottom lip. “If you take that purple one there, dry it out and grind it up, you can add it to a basic medical cream to create one that will stop bleeding. It’s all natural, the wound can be stitched with it in, and make it so that if need be the wound will heal without a lot of chakra.

“Or you can take the same petals and gently bruise them before you add them to cooking oil, alcohol, or hydrogen peroxide. With the cooking oil, it’ll lend a sweet taste to the food and kill a lot of the bad fats in foods. For the rubbing alcohol and peroxide, it would add a numbing agent and help to add more of an oomph to the cleansing aspects,” Naruto told him. “The red one though you would take and mash it up with the purple one and a few other herbs, making sure that it becomes a smooth, creamy texture. It will give you a bruise cream that you wouldn’t need to use a lot of.”

“Why not use them then?” Choji asked him, blinking a few times. He looked over to Naruto. “And how did they come here?”

“My mom was the one who brought hundreds of seeds from there and planted them here. As for why I don’t use them is because I’m still coaxing them to regrow again. There are about six bushes of each color out there that was able to last through years of not being looked after since I was denied my birthright for so long,” Naruto admitted. “We used to be able to get them from Kumo before they fucked up so hard.”

“I did not know about that. I bet that Ino would have a fit over you having these and demand that you allow her cuttings or seeds,” Choji sighed. He knew the insanity of his friend when it came to rare plants. She had often tried to steal away Naruto’s pride and joy, a pretty little flowering plant that needed a special type of care plant. Each time had ended up in some rather explosive fights.

“She won’t be able to get any kind of permission to grow these flowers. Even if I could, I wouldn’t,” Naruto admitted, looking over at Choji. “They’re tied to my family and my family only. When any children are born via a surrogate, they’ll get to grow them, but no one else.” Choji’s silent ‘why’ was clearly heard even as he sipped his coffee. The blond chuckled. “To get permission, she would need to travel to Kumo, hike to the valley with absolutely no chakra used and petition the guardians of the land for the right to grow the seeds.”

“And that’s what your mom did to get her permission?” Choji asked. Naruto smiled and nodded. “That’s not what you’re thinking about though, are you?”

“Are we going about all of this the right way?” Naruto asked after a moment of sipping his tea and watching the flowers dance. “I mean, I do know that we’re nin and that assassinations are commonplace in our life, even more so in wartime situations than in a peaceful time...but still.”

Choji hummed and reached out, tugging his friend close with a small smile as the slimmer man sighed as he curled against his side. They hadn’t been close friends during their younger years, Shikamaru having taken Choji’s best friend, and Naruto having been mostly friendless with only a few allies through those years. But ever since they had all grown up, they had gotten closer to each other.

“I think that we are,” he finally said after thinking. “We’re gonna see if we can’t bring back our spy and his lover, see if Jiraiya-sama and yourself can’t talk some sense into that old student of his and maybe finally off, or seal, the supposedly immortal bastard once and for all. And if that requires us to be the so called ‘monsters’ that the civilian’s think us to be, then so be it.”

Naruto sighed as he rubbed his cheek against his friend’s shoulder. “I don’t want my friends to look at me like they don’t know me after this. I know that us career chunin have the ability to put any jounin out there to shame, but we have to use our abilities to do a job that is amazingly dangerous…” He bit his bottom lip. “I’ve been talking with Kankuro and Gaara about what it does mean to be a career chunin and why it’s probably the hardest rank that any of his men will hold.”

“You can’t really ever rise above chunin can you? You can become Hokage, true but all that knowledge you have now would have to be locked down even tighter than it is right now. And you would never be able to really update it. Right?” Choji asked, Naruto nodding his head. “Did you give up your dreams of being Hokage?” he asked.

“It wasn’t really a dream but rather a need to get the attention that I so wanted as a child. It was for all of the wrong reasons and then I started to go out on missions. I started to focus on my training. I saw what the life of a nin truly is and it knocked me out of the naivety that came with not being told anything.” Naruto sighed softly as he threw his legs over one of Choji’s legs. “I know that Tsunade would make me the Hokage if I really wanted to be, but I think that I will do my best being a supporter of the Hokage, instead of being one.”

Choji went stiff as he thought about something before relaxing and snorting. “You’re Iruka’s apprentice, aren’t you?” he asked, teasingly. Naruto just smiled. “Or at least one of them.”

“I’m his only one at the moment. If he decides to be just an Archival worker, I’ll take over his duties that he has now. Or if he dies, I’ll take those duties over. We’re all trained really but only one of us right now could be named the taicho of our group. Iruka will teach others as we go along, the same as Izumo and Kotetsu will for their jobs as the fukutaichos if you want to call them that. Raidou and Genma are forever looking for those who could be tokubetsu jounin and do their jobs pretty damn well but they have to get them as genin. It is a hard process really to find a proper apprentice.”

“Sounds really tough,” Choji hummed, smiling as Naruto drained his tea. “We’ll do this and then move on. You’ll probably finish your training before all of this shit ends, and then you’ll go out on an actual date with Kankuro-san.”

“Choji,” Naruto groaned as he hid his face in one hand, listening to his friend’s rumbling laughter against his ear. “Why do you say that?”

“I say that because I can see just how you look at him and how he looks at you,” Choji said. “He wouldn’t mind getting a piece of your perky ass. He would probably love to have the whole damn package, dating included, but he’ll be very happy with friendship if that’s all you can offer him. I do know though that he returns your feelings for him, such as they are.”

Naruto sighed and grabbed a fan from where it was hidden, waving it in front of his face as he glared at his friend. “God, I can hope I suppose,” he sighed. Shaking his head, he huffed and smiled. “Thank you, Choji, for talking with me.”

“It’s not a problem,” Choji said, watching as Naruto stood up and stepped back inside. He pulled his mask back on and went back to watching the way the flowers danced in the wind.
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