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Political Alliances
By : AgentGv01
Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female
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Political Alliances
Chapter 6: Tension
The training with Team 7 was going well in Kakashi’s opinion. By the end of the first day he had pretty much gathered most of what he needed Temari was definitely a very highly skilled kunoichi for her age and could see why she was picked for this whole affair. She was weak in close range combat though but that was easy to work on and that was what the rest of the team was for. He had noticed that Sakura had been pushing herself harder than normal, which was good to see and he was wondering if it was because of their new team mate? At any rate it was getting late and noticed that they were starting to tire.
“Alright everyone that’s enough for today,” Kakashi said as they all stopped their training. “I’ll see you all here tomorrow at nine for missions and then training afterwards.”
As the team members started to file out he noticed that Sasuke was walking towards him. He had a feeling what the genin wanted and he was starting to worry about it.
Sasuke walked right up to Kakashi and looked up at the jonin teacher.
“You said that you know how to use the rasengan right?” the Uchiha avenger asked.
“Yes and no I’m not teaching you it,” Kakashi told him and he could see the anger there in the boy’s eyes.
“Why not? You taught me the chidori and I can use something like that rasengan thing,” Sasuke told him although he also thought that an idiot like Naruto shouldn’t have a stronger technique than him. He was the prodigy in the class while, Naruto had been the dead last. He had no idea when or how Naruto kept getting so much stronger but he needed to keep ahead of the annoying blonde.
“Naruto is a...special case,” Kakashi told him. He couldn’t just come out and say it was because of who Naruto’s father was or because of what was sealed inside of the boy.
Sasuke didn’t like that word that Kakashi had used unfortunately. ‘Special? There’s nothing special about him, he’s an annoying, loudmouth, and an idiot. Why the hell should he get a jutsu like that anyway, he doesn’t need it! I have to become stronger to kill Itachi and I won’t be held back.’
Kakashi could see that the young boy wasn’t taking this well, “Sasuke you’re very strong as it is, I already taught you my only original jutsu, you’re faster and stronger than you were before the chunin exams as well. Although I didn’t approve of you stealing Lee’s movements but we’ve already talked about that.”
During the training month, Kakashi had seen the boy use moves that only Gai or a student of his would know. When he asked him the boy admitted to coping Lee’s movements from earlier and Kakashi had taken the boy aside and gave him a lecture on how it was improper to use the sharingan against allies. That was one of the reasons many had a dislike for certain Uchiha members, when you trained your ass off and someone just walks in and copies your hard work in a blink of an eye, resentments easily followed.
“Look, the only way you’ll learn the Rasengan is if Naruto trains you in it if you ask him and he agrees to do it,” Kakashi told him.
Sasuke scowled at the thought, there was no way the dead last of the class could teach him, the last of the Uchiha anything, the idea of even asking him for help in any kind of training was laughable and an insult to him as well. Naruto wasn’t something special and he sure as hell couldn’t train him to do anything.
“Then why can’t you train me in another type of shaping then?” Sasuke asked him.
Kakashi sighed, “Sasuke I’ve already given you lots of training. I’ve even ignored some of the progress of the others just for you and I can’t keep doing it.”
What he didn’t mention was that he also did it to keep Sasuke from being killed by Gaara and also to keep him away from Orochimaru. He eyed that mark that was just inside of his shirt collar, it didn’t look like the seal he had put on the boy was weakening but he was starting to worry about the boy. Ever since he woke up from Itachi using that technique on him again he had been colder and more distant. All that progress they had made seemed to be falling apart, and Kakashi was running out of ways to keep the team together.
Not that Kakashi could entirely blame the boy, after three days of being put on a cross and being cut over and over again by Itachi, Kakashi didn’t want to go through something like that again anytime soon. Although Kakashi had an idea of what Sasuke had seen in those three days of his own. Maybe he should see if he could get Sasuke some help, the boy never talked about his problems as he just kept them bottled up inside and the jonin could see it was eating the boy up inside.
But then again who was Kakashi to judge either? For years he left the deaths of Obito and Rin and everyone else he cared for weigh on his shoulders. He went to the memorial stone all the time just staring at all the names he knew from over the years. Although Obito was always the name he looked at first and for the longest.
‘Maybe I should take my own advice sometime,’ Kakashi thought to himself as he internally sighed.
“Sasuke you’re already very strong as it is, one of the strongest genin around and in time you will only get stronger but you need to learn patience. You can’t just become stronger overnight, it takes lots of hard and you can’t expect to just be handed everything all the time.”
With that Sasuke turned around and walked off, angered that Kakashi wouldn’t teach him. He couldn’t understand it, he was the top of the class and better than any ninja in his age group, even older ninja. Besides he needed to be stronger, after all the training he had done when he had gone up against his brother he had been swatted away like a fly. Then there were those eyes of his brother, those uncaring eyes.
‘You don’t hate enough.’
His older brother’s words ran in his ears before he went through three days of hell watching his family and clan being killed over and over again. His fists clenched so hard that his nails were biting hard enough into his palms to draw out a little blood.
‘They don’t understand, none of them understood,’ Sasuke thought as he walked back to the empty Uchiha district. He looked around at all the empty buildings. He remembered when they were filled with his clan, but they were falling into disrepair, even the old police station was now used by ANBU now. He remembered when these streets were alive with people, adults and children playing. Sometimes he could still remember the sounds of life on this road but not anymore. They were as silent as a tome for years now.
‘None of them can understand the loss I’ve suffered,’ Sasuke darkly thought as he walked through the streets. ‘I only have my vengeance in life, I’ve spent all this time to get stronger and I’m still too weak. I need to be stronger or I’ll never kill him, my clan will never be avenged and I’ll never find any kind of peace.’
He still had nightmares of that night, especially lately. He stopped looking around as his hatred grew and grew. He remembered the kindness of his mother, and his father had finally had taken notice of him. He had mastered that fire jutsu after all that hard work he his father was finally going to train him but then his older brother killed them all. He still couldn’t stand to be in the room where his parents had been killed, he knew that the blood had been cleaned up but he knew what had happened in that room.
‘I swear no matter what I will get stronger,’ Sasuke vowed to himself and to the dead ghosts that haunted these buildings. ‘I will get stronger and kill Itachi, no matter what I will. I don’t care if his village is holding me back I will find a way to get stronger.’
“Ugh,” He grunted out feeling the seal on his neck flared up. He felt the cold sweat on his brow as he fought it back, although for a moment he remembered a bit of what it felt like to use it. He had felt powerful, more powerful than he had ever felt but he had been warned about using it. He remembered how hard his match in the chunin exams had been because of it but maybe there was a way of mastering it, there had to be a way to use the seal and stay in control.
He started to slowly grin at the thought of that.
Little did he know that he was being watched by a pair of eyes in the shadows.
“How much longer are we going to wait?” A voice said.
“Yeah, this if fucking annoying,” a female said.
“Shut it, we were to check on his progress and until we get the word from Lord Orochimaru we won’t approach him until the time is right,” Said a deeper voice.
“Fine but I just hope it’s not too long,” the final figure said being very bored.
-Naruto and Temari-
The two genins were walking their way to where her brother’s were located. Mainly Naruto was just walking with her to make sure she knew the way and also because he wanted to talk to Gaara again. He wasn’t sure why but he could tell that the boy had gone through a change and that was good. Gaara was a lot like him in so many ways, and it would be nice to make a friend that knew what it was like to have a demon locked up inside of you and how people treated someone like that.
“So what did you think of the team?” Naruto asked trying to make conversation.
“It’s...different,” Temari told him. “The pink haired girl needs to train a hell of a lot more that’s for sure, and the Uchiha needs to get that stick out of his ass too.”
At that Naruto started laughing, “Finally someone that feels the same way! I mean all the girls are all over him it’s always Sasuke-kun this or Sasuke-kun that, man I don’t get what’s so cool about him.”
“Well he is pretty good looking and he’s got that dark mysterious things going for him,” she remarked remembering her first time seeing him. She noticed the scowl on the other blonde and she had to admit, it was kind of cute if a bit childish. “But he’s got no real personality.”
“That’s for sure,” Naruto muttered, “I’ve been trying to get him to lighten up for a long time but mostly he just ignores it. I mean I once put exploding paint bombs in the teacher’s lounge and everyone but Sasuke had laughed when the teachers were in all kinds of different colors for the rest of the day.”
“You did what!?” Temari looked at him surprised she couldn’t believe he had done something like that. If she had tried something like that her father would have been so angry with her she didn’t want to think about what he would have done.
“Oh I’ve done a lot more than that,” he chuckled, “I used to do lots of pranks all the time.”
“Why?”
Naruto thought about it, “Well sometimes it was to get back at people who weren’t nice to me, sometimes it was to get people to notice me other times it was just fun! I mean haven’t you ever pulled something over someone?”
“I’m a Kage’s daughter, I can’t be seen doing childish things,” she told him remembering her own childhood. Her father was a very strict upbringing. She hadn’t allowed to do a lot of what younger girls were allowed to do because she had to keep up a proper appearance.
“Man that’s too bad you missed out on a lot of fun I bet,” Naruto told her with his arms behind his head.
“So what?” She snapped, “We’re not children anymore so it’s pointless.”
“Oh come on you’re never too old to have fun,” He said but she wasn’t talking at that moment. He grunted and starting thinking about her, she was way too serious at times. A slow smile started to form on his face, if she was too serious then there was only one thing to do with that, he had to show her a good time and make her have fun. If he could do that then maybe she would be a little less stiff with everyone.
“Hey Temari,” A voice called out as Naruto looked up to see her brothers and their sensei.
“Kankuro, Gaara, Baki-sensei,” Temari said nodding to them.
“So how did training go,” Baki asked his former student.
“It went alright I suppose,” She said with a shrug.
Baki nodded and cast a glance over at Naruto who was making his way over to Gaara,” So things are going well with him?”
“He’s...not what you’d expect, are you sure of the reasons you were giving as to why the council chose him?” Temari asked her old teacher. She had been made aware before she came as to why the Suna council chose Naruto as her future husband. Although she did agree that he was very strong but given what she had learned from just a few days of being around him so much she wasn’t sure just how close her council was to the actual truth.
“Are you saying that they were wrong about him?” Baki asked concerned.
“I’m not sure I know how strong he is. In fact he’s actually gotten stronger with learning a move of their Fourth Hokage in only a month, but as for him being some kind of ‘secret weapon’ I’m not seeing it.”
Baki nodded and put that information away for the moment even if the council made a small error the boy was very strong in his own right.
“Hey Gaara, how have you been?” Naruto smiled at the red headed boy.
Gaara looked a little unsure, he never had anyone actually be nice to him and not all that long ago they were trying to kill one another, or at least he had been trying to kill the blonde. But it was also Naruto that had opened his eyes and truth be told he felt better about himself a lot lately too.
“I’ve been well,” Gaara said to him in that same neutral tone although there was a hint of something different. There was no menace in his voice anymore and Naruto smiled at the sound of that. Naruto wasn’t getting that creepy vibe off him anymore and the boy could just tell that Gaara really had changed. He could see it in Gaara’s eyes the most, they were still hard eyes but no longer had that hint of madness to them.
Naruto gave that usual foxy grin at him, “That’s good to hear. I think I’ll like having you for a brother.”
Gaara didn’t know what to say to that, he was still getting used to feeling things and although it was strange the feeling he was getting felt...nice.
Gaara nodded his head as he too felt that having him as a brother or at least a brother-in law would be nice. The boy was just like him and Gaara felt less alone in the world now.
Kankuro blinked looking as his younger brother and Naruto started talking, well Naruto did most of the talking as he told Gaara all about the day so far. He looked back to Temari and Baki who looked on as Naruto was totally at ease with Gaara and Gaara actually seemed a bit more relaxed as well.
“What the hell?” Kankuro asked silently to them both. “How the hell does he just talk to him like that after everything and Gaara actually seems to, like the guy.”
Temari just watched but a small smile formed on her lips seeing Naruto act out the day’s events in exaggerated motions as Gaara watched on. Unless you know Gaara very well you couldn’t pick up on his subtle moods, and Temari could see that her youngest brother was actually enjoying himself. It was just the way Gaara carried himself, it was less stiff and relaxed. She remembered how much that Naruto had gone through to make her comfortable and it dawned on her that despite his more annoying traits, deep down he was actually a nice guy. This was the first time she had seen someone actually try and reach out to her little brother like that.
“So are we going to eat of what?” Kankuro asked bored after awhile.
“Oh hey I know the best place to eat!” Naruto smiled largely and looked to Gaara, “Hey you like ramen?”
Temari rolled her eyes, she had figured out just how much of a ramen freak he was and although she liked it herself Naruto wanted to eat it all the time. But seeing Naruto and Gaara together maybe it would be good for Gaara to spend a bit more time with him.
“Well I guess so,” Temari said as the others didn’t have anything against it.
Naruto was all smiles as he led them to his most favourite spot to eat in the whole world. The Ichiraku Ramen Bar, ran by Teuchi and his daughter Ayame. Naruto hadn’t eaten there in awhile given how busy he was lately so he was eager to hurry up and eat his fill, plus with the new pay he was getting from Tsunade his frog looking wallet (gama-chan) was a nice large shape. He led them through the streets as they came to the stand with the drapes over it as Naruto ducked his head under the cloth.
“Hey old man I need at least five bowls of miso ramen!” Naruto called out as he sat on his favourite stool.
“Naruto-kun, we haven’t seen you in a while,” Ayame smiled at him as her father got the order ready. Then she noticed the others coming in, “oh, hello. Welcome to Ichiraku Ramen, what will you take?”
They gave their orders as the father and daughter team went to work on things.
“Well it smells good so far,” Baki said out loud.
“Yeah, they serve the best ramen in the world here,” Naruto grinned as he couldn’t wait for his first bowl.
Teuchi laughed as he got the noodles ready, “Thanks for the free advertising Naruto, and that’s one of the reasons you’re our number one customer.”
“So are you friends of Naruto-kun?” Ayame asked them.
“Uh...actually Temari here is...uh...” Naruto wasn’t sure how to go about it. He had told them of what was going on with him awhile back but he hadn’t mentioned names to them.
“I’m Temari,” the blonde female said. “I’m Naruto’s...fiancé.”
That caused both cooks to pause for a second, they hadn’t known who was going to marry Naruto although the old ramen cook had to admit the girl was pretty if a little serious. Ayame however went right into Temari’s face nearly making the newly made Leaf genin pull back a bit in her seat.
“Oh so you’re the one that he’s told us about,” Ayame looked the girl over and it was making Temari a little uncomfortable. “Please take care of Naruto-kun, he’s a really nice guy and he could use someone in his life, plus maybe you can help keep him out of trouble.”
“Nee-chan!” Naruto said embarrassed.
Kankuro chuckled at the look on the boy’s face.
“Shut it, makeup boy.”
“What did you call me!?” Kankuro shouted out, “This is war paint for your information.”
“I think it’s really makeup, after all you dress up like a cat and play with dolls.” Naruto said crossing his arms.
“They’re not dolls!” the puppet user said in the defence of his beloved puppets.
Temari couldn’t stop a snickering escaping from her mouth, this wasn’t the first time someone said this to her brother although not this blatantly before. She also noticed that Gaara had a slight twitch on the side of his mouth for a second, she was surprised that Gaara had nearly smiled at that.
“Oh I think playing with dolls is cute,” Ayame smiled. “And it shows you’re really comfortable in your own masculinity to wear makeup.”
Kankuro just sat there with his mouth open he then slumped down into his seat sulking, being insulted by the blonde loudmouth was bad enough but now the pretty girl behind the counter was getting in on it too. Hell even his sister often said that was why he couldn’t get a date.
They started to eat up once the orders were ready they were surprised by just how much Naruto could eat, as they started to eat up Temari got to know the two ramen stand workers. They seemed fairly nice and they seemed to really like Naruto as well and the ramen wasn’t bad either. By the time they left, Temari had to admit that the place while not fancy was still kind of nice. And with how much Naruto spent, it was little wonder why he was their number one customer.
“Ah, now that’s what I call a good meal,” Naruto said patting his stomach. So far he had to admit that things were going well, he was getting along with Temari and her brothers and former teacher. Although he kept trying to sneak a look under that half of Baki’s face that was covered, honestly why did some ninja have to hide their faces? He got enough of that with Kakashi.
Although Naruto was having such a good time that he wasn’t watching where he was going and when they turned the corner he nearly slammed into someone.
“Hey, careful Naruto!”
Naruto snapped out of his thoughts as he nearly ran into Tenten.
“Oh man sorry about that Tenten,” He said and then noticed that she was with Neji and Lee on his crutches. “Hey Neji, hey there fuzzy brows.”
“Naruto-kun it is very youthful to see you again,” Lee smiled at him but then noticed that his two friends weren’t as happy. In fact they were looking at Naruto’s companions especially to Gaara. Lee locked eyes with the red headed genin that had put him into this condition and said boy stared back.
Naruto looked at both groups and swallowed nervously, there was a lot of bad blood between the two groups. First there was how badly Tenten lost to Temari, then there had been what Gaara had done to Lee. He was hoping that a fight wouldn’t break out as things had been going to great today. But given his luck he should have known that something would ruin things. To say there was tension was like saying that Jiraiya was a pervert, Tenten took a hard look at Temari but she had promised not to start anything with her. But Gaara on the other hand, she had seen how bad Lee had taken to his injuries at first and what the boy had done in the chunin exams had been out of line in her opinion.
Neji had his usual cold look on although if you were to look more closely you could see that his eyes were a little colder than his face. He too was thinking the same things as Tenten about Gaara. Although he knew that the other boy was very strong, if he tried to hurt his teammate again he would take him down as fast and as hard as he could.
There was a heavy silence and then Gaara of all people walked towards Lee, everyone tensed up as the boy got close to the green clad genin. Gaara looked at the injuries that he had caused when he had been less than stable. Lee had given him one of the best battles in his young life, had pushed Gaara to his limits but in the end Gaara had not only beat Lee, he had taken away his ability as a ninja by the looks of it. He had tried to kill the boy until that older green glad ninja jumped in the way and had stopped his sand.
He remembered how the man had said that Lee was important to him and at that time he couldn’t understand that. But now he did understand what the man had meant that day, and he also understood the full impact of what he had done. This was one of Naruto’s friends and he had hurt Lee very badly, it left a bad feeling in the bit of his stomach. He hadn’t felt that emotions since he was a little child when his sand would go out and hurt a child by accident. Gaara remembered getting medicine and offering it to the boy but that had not worked out as he had hoped.
Now looking at Lee he felt that same emotions all over again. He looked into Lee’s eyes and said something that no one expected him to say.
“I’m...sorry,” Gaara told him.
Everyone blinked in surprise, although Lee grew a small smile on his face.
“You don’t have to do that,” Lee smiled at him.
“What? Lee he, well he crippled you!” Tenten shouted at him.
“I know but we are ninja, in our line of work we enter battle knowing that something like this could happen or that we can die,” Lee said with his full resolve in his voice. “I could have quit that match at any moment but I wanted to push myself to my limits, maybe even beyond my limits. We all knew that the chunin exams were dangerous when we entered as a team and I was fully prepared to die for my nindo.”
Lee looked to Gaara again, “You are one of the strongest people I know and it was an honor to fight you...and I hope to do it again.”
“What?” Gaara asked surprised as was everyone else there.
Lee gave Gaara a thumbs up with a smile, “Lady Tsunade has said that she is looking into my condition, I am sure that with her help I’ll heal and when I do I hope we can have a friendly rematch one day.”
Lee had been meaning to surprise his friends with the news later that day, hence why they were on their way to meet Gai, Lee wanted to tell his team all together but it would seem that he would have to tell Gai second. Although he was worried as Tsunade said that the treatment was looking dangerous but if he couldn’t be a ninja then there wasn’t anything else that Lee would want in life. He still had a dream to pursue and if he died in the pursuit of that dream, then so be it.
Naruto was all smiles at that, “Alright! I knew that Baa-chan wouldn’t let us down, just you wait Lee, she’ll make you better than ever!”
Tenten smiled and even Neji had a small smile on his face at that, it would be good to have Lee back.
Gaara himself wasn’t sure how he felt but he felt better, unlike the boy that he had once hurt, Lee was forgiving him for what he had done. It made the bad feelings inside of him lessen and slowly replaced by something else.
“I would like that,” Gaara told Lee.
“Then when I am ready we will have the most youthful match!” Lee shouted out. Gaara wasn’t sure by what he meant by ‘youthful’ but he nodded anyway.
Next up Chapter 7: Making Her Smile
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Political Alliances	By : AgentGv01 Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female Views: 33025 -:- Recommendations : 3 -:- Currently Reading : 11
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Political Alliances