Wait?! They're awake?

Chapter 8

"Kyuubi talking"
"Kyuubi thinking"
"Normal talking"
"Normal thinking"

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Previously:

"Ok, i know you both want to know how im doing or how i survived, right?" Getting a nod he continued "Ok so let me tell you..."

Present time:

And with that, the next three and a half hours were spent talking about what had happened to Naruto while he wasn't in the village. The boy ate so much ramen, Teuchi was starting to get worried about his business going bankrupt.

Ayame could only listen in wonder. Naruto, while still sounding childish and Carefree, wasn't the same little kid she had been taking care of all those years ago. No, he had grown up, but not only  appearance wise. The way he talked and acted in general made him appear like a completely different person.

Naruto left the stand around midnight. Walking back to the house his father told him to go to, he thought about what had happened in the past day. He was back in Konoha, the place that made his life hell. But somehow, it felt nice being back. Don't get him wrong, he doesn't and probably never will fully forgive everyone here, but that doesn't mean he won't try.

He knew that he was a forgiving person, even to those who most definitely didn't deserve it. But Naruto just couldn't help but see the best in people. Take the villagers of this place, they had lost their famillies in the Kyuubi attack, and wanted to blame something or someone for it. So the took all their anger on a person that held the beast.

What brought Naruto out of his thoughts was a sound of kunai hitting wood. He quickly made a decision in his head, that he wanted to see who was doing that. It wasn't like Naruto was tired.

Quickly running up the side of a building near him, Naruto peaked over the edge of the roof to see who was training at this time of night. What he was shocked him. It was the same girl from his 'Retrieval Squad', Uchiha Sayuri was her name, Mikotos youngest.

She was throwing kunai at a wooden dummy with a blindfold on her face. By the looks of it, she was quite decent, not many kunai on the ground. An idea popped in Narutos mind that made him grin like an idiot.

Trying to be as quiet as possible, he jumped down from the roof and ran behind the nearest tree to him. Peeking from the left side of the tree to see if she had heard anything, luckily for him she didn't,  he ducked down and slowely moved his legs towards her.

Sayuri still hadn't heard anything of what was going on behind her, so she continued her training exercise, i mean how else was she supposed to get stronger then Itachi? With that thought in mind, she didn't feel a presence behind creep up behind her.

Naruto was right behind her, drawing a big but quiet breath, he poked both of his pointer fingers in to her ribs. Sayuri was not expecting that to happen in the middle of the night, so she let out the most girlish scream possible. Turning around to see who scared and  embarrassed her like that, Sayuri saw a blond kid about her age on the ground rolling with tears from laughter.

Looking at him for a bit longer, she realized that the boy was Naruto, the hokages son. That thought alone made her pale cheeks tint with a rosie blush. But soon she scowled and drew another kunai from her pouch, pointed it at him and said

"You have some nerve doing that to me, Namikaze. I don't care who or what your parents are, i will cut you if you ever do that again" Naruto scrambled to his feet, not really feeling like dying today. And put his hands up in surrender.

"Now now, there is no need for violence it was just a prank, okay?" That made Sayuri lower her hand, but she still had the scowl on her face. Sayuri wasn't used to having a boy touch her or be that close with her, normaly she was fast enough to send them to the Hospital when they did.

"Don't do that ever again." Getting a quick nod from the boy she turned around to continue the training "What are you even doing her at this hour?" Sayuri asked, still throwing the kunai.

"I could ask you the same thing" He said with a smirk on his face, but that disappeared when he had to dodge a knife going in the direction straight between his eyes "Ok ok, jeez what do you have to be so violent? I was coming back from Ichiraku Ramen when i heard you practicing"

That seemed to satisfy her, so she finally stoped and started to collect her things. Naruto on the other hand didn't know what to do, so he just stood there awkwardly scratching the back of his neck "Will i have to ask, or are you going to help me?" Came the annoyed voice of the raven haired girl.

Naruto laughed a little at the tone of her voice, but nevertheless helped Sayuti collect her things. All throughout it, they didn't speak at all. It wasn't like the atmosphere was awkward, they just didn't know what to say to eachother.

"Hey let me walk you home, its pretty late" Naruto said once they were done. Sayuri just shook her head at that "No, i'll be fine on my own" The boy wasn't going to give up though "Oh cmon, i won't do anything i promise please please plea-" He was cut off with a smack to the head by Sayuri

"I said no, now leave me alone. Goodnight" And with that, she left a very gobsmacked Naruto all alone in the woods. Honestly he wasn't surprised that she didn't let him take her back home, he was surprised because she was the first girl to look at him like he was a regular boy. Naruto didn't like to brag about it, but he had definitely gotten his father's looks.

It didn't matter where he went, every girl no matter what age stared at him with stars in their eyes. So having a girl reject him like that, made Naruto smile a little

"Huh, so you found yourself a vixen brat?" He heard a voice inside of his head. Blushing a little at the Foxes comment he instantly denied it. But it was of no use, the damage was already done. Kurama would tease him about this forever now.

Walking out of the forest and getting back on the road to his new home, Naruto was a little nervous. Honestly he didn't know how to act around his parents, it was still a little overwhelming. But coming to see a massive gate with the Namikaze symbol engraved on it, Naruto couldn't help but smile.

Walking through the door, his nose picked up a delicious smell coming from what seemed to be the kitchen area. Closing the door, he called out

"Im home!" A second after finishing that sentence, he felt something collide with him. At first Naruto tensed up, but when he saw the dark red hair he knew who that person was. It was his mother.

"Welcome back, sochi. Where did you go for so long, i was starting to get worried." Kushina said, letting her son go and standing infornt of him. He was almost taller then her.

Oh sorry, i just got stuck at Ichiraku." Naruto said scratching the back of his neck. That made Kushinas hair stand up, making her look incredibly intimidating

"You went to Ichirakus...WITHOUT ME?" Naruto just stood there, a small bead of sweat running down his cheec.

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