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Chapter 2 continued
-------------------- Obito was standing under a streetlight in the park, in fact it’s the same streetlight that he took Team 7 to just the other day. This place was always special to him. Not only did it have a rather remarkable view of his teacher’s face on Hokage Monument, but it was the place he had his first kiss with Rin, and then later proposed to her. Yeah, no matter what happened or whatever went wrong in his life, he could always come here and just float away for a while in good memories. He was enjoying those memories when he heard a familiar voice call out from behind him. “Hey! Obito-sensei! We passed!” It was Naruto, Obito should have expected it though, the kid had the biggest mouth in Konoha. He was strolling up along with Sakura and Sasuke, Hinata was only a couple of steps behind. “Congratulations. I certainly hoped you all would pass, I wrote the most flattering review I could think of, it would’ve taken a miracle for three other teams to knock you off.” Obito replied. “Well, with the congratulations out of the way, I need to inform you that from now on you are active shinobi of Konoha. This means that you’ll have to be ready to go at a moments notice, and whenever you’re not doing missions you’ll be training to improve your skills. You kids think your ready?” Naruto and Sakura both responded fiercely, Hinata stammered through her reply, and Sasuke simply nodded. Obito stared at his team for a moment, measuring them up one more time. “Alright, then,” Obito continued, “Our usual daily schedule will start at 8 AM, where we’ll meet up here. From here, I’ll either inform you of any missions that we have to complete for the day, or we will go out to train on our ‘days off.’ Also, you’ll need these…” Obito passed out four small black cell phones. “These are for emergency situations only, they’re each preprogrammed to call me, your teammates, Ninja Ops, and the hospital. Keep them on you at all times, these are how you’ll receive any urgent mission assignments.” Obito watched as each of the genin looked at the cell phones, figured out who had which number, and got them a little personalized before continuing on, “Now, there’s one more thing I need to talk to you about.” At this point the was staring at Naruto and Sakura pretty hard, making them both fidget as they stood there, “This applies especially to you two, but for all of you in general. I am requiring you to start wearing appropriate ninja attire. Dark hues, black, and certain neutral colors are acceptable. I will not have you risking your teammates lives because you stick out like a sore thumb, you got that Mr. Bright Orange Jumpsuit?” Naruto just blushed and looked down as Obito looked at him. “Anyway, congrats again on the graduation, I hope to see everyone here tomorrow at 8 AM. Until then, you have the rest of the day off, do what you want with it.” with that Obito started to stroll off to parts unknown, even he didn’t know where he was going. ---------------------------------------------- “So who’s up for some ramen?” Naruto asked excitedly as they started making there way out of the park. “Good gods, is that all you ever think about, you idiot?” Sakura said, “I’d rather not eat ramen. However, I do know of a good restaurant called Osaka’s that’s around here, we can go get something there. You up for some lunch Sasuke-kun?” Sakura was staring at Sasuke with her googly eyes, Naruto wished she would stare at him with those eyes once. Sasuke, however, looked like someone just stuffed a pole up his bum. “I’d rather not. I think I’m just going to go home.” Sasuke replied. “Aww, come on Sasuke, even Hinata is going to go, isn’t that right Hinata?” Sakura pleaded while she turned to Hinata. “Uh… H-Hai.” Hinata stuttered as she nodded her head. As long as I get to be near Naruto-kun, Hinata thought to herself. “See, Sasuke, even Hinata is going. Remember, we’re a team, and this is a good chance to lay some of the groundwork for teamwork, we have to get to know each other.” Sakura stated somewhat matter-of-factly. However, she thought, if I could Naruto to just buzz off, I’d be even more happy. “Yeah, Sasuke, you don’t have to be a party pooper all the time. This might be one of the last days we have to really loosen up and have some fun.” Naruto jabbed. “Of course, I don’t even know if you have a fun bone in your body. “NARUTO!!!” Naruto cringed as Sakura was getting ready to hit him. “Tch, fine, whatever. You’re all so annoying.” Sasuke just held up his hands, “If it gets you all to leave me alone that much sooner, so be it.” “Yay, everyone follow me.” Sakura squealed. Well, that was a complete 180, Naruto thought, I thought I was a dead man. Naruto followed behind Sakura and Sasuke for a few blocks, until they came up to a nice looking shop with Osaka’s written in bold red letters on a sign over the door. “Here we are!” Sakura exclaimed, as she entered. A rather pretty serving woman greeted them as they entered the restaurant. She had raven black hair, and beautiful hazel eyes. “Welcome, table for 4?” she asked. Everyone nodded in agreement, and she said “Follow me please.” She lead them to a nice window booth with a view of the street and the small playground beyond. Naruto sadly remembered being chased away by angry adults whenever he tried to play there with the other kids, or the other kids were called away, leaving him alone either way. Hinata noticed the sad look that came over Naruto’s eyes. “N-naruto, I-is t-there something wrong?” Naruto perked up and looked at her, a fake grin crowwing his face, but Hinata could tell the grin didn’t reach his eyes. “Nah, Hinata. I’m fine.” Naruto said reassuringly. “O-okay.” Hinata replied as they sat down to order. She really wasn’t paying attention when they sat, but she ended up on one side of the booth with Naruto, while Sakura sat with Sasuke. She started to blush from the close proximity to the boy she loved. Luckily for her, she managed to not feint. “Here are some menus.” the pretty waitress said. “I’ll be back shortly to take your orders. Any of you want anything to drink?” “Water is fine.” Sasuke replied simply. “I’d like some tea if you don’t mind.” Sakura replied. “Milk would be good.” Naruto said. “Umm… W-water is okay.” Hinata said while looking through the table. “Okay, I’ll be back with your drinks and to take your orders.” The waitress said as she turned to walk back into the kitchen area. Naruto started to look around, and noticed a familiar pineapple-shaped mess of hair coming from one of the other booths. “Hey Shikamaru!” he cried out. The pineapple-haired youth turned around in his booth to see all of Team 7 sitting in a booth about half the room away from his own team. This could be troublesome, Shikamaru thought, Ino and Sakura being around Sasuke, I wish I was taking a nap or playing a game of chess. As soon as Naruto said something, everyone stared turning and noticed the other team in the room. Ino, of course, saw Sakura sitting right next to Sasuke. Tha ugly, wide-forheaded excuse for a kunoichi, Ino thought, how dare she sit next to my Sasuke-kun. Sakura simply stuck her tongue out at Ino and held up two fingers in the V for victory sign. Ino, glared at her with a vengeance. If looks could kill, Sakura would have needed a closed-casket funeral. “You know, glaring at her like that isn’t going to help you in any way, right?” Ino heard from beside here, and turned to her teammate. Tsuneni Tadashii was in no way an imposing sight. Even for a kunoichi, she was tiny. In fact she was by far the smallest person to graduate this year. She had strawberry-blonde hair, and deep brown eyes. She wore her forehead protector tied around her left arm, and she wore a plain black outfit that was rather form fitting, even though there wasn’t really anything there to show off. “So what, it makes me feel better.” Ino said as she fell back into her seat. “Stupid, billboard forehead.” she muttered under her breath. Before things could get anymore out of hand, the waitress showed back up with Team 7’s drinks, and ready to take their orders. They went around the table, Sakura ordered some chicken tempura, Naruto ordered teriyaki steak and shrimp, Hinata requested tofu teriyaki, and Sasuke ordered a sushi platter. Team 10 began to leave as Team 7’s food arrived. As they parted ways, Ino gave Sakura one more good stare down, to which Sakura replied with another stuck out tongue. Team 7 then began to eat in relative silence. “So what do you think our first mission will be? A escort mission, or maybe infiltration?” Naruto asked. “No, you idiot. We’re new, they wouldn’t throw us into anything like that so soon.” Sakura replied snappishly. Naruto had rudely interrupted her staring at the hypnotizing sight of Sasuke Uchiha. Naruto kept on imagining the wild scenarios in which Team 7 would undoubtedly be thrown into. Sakura, in response, kept reminding how much of an idiot he was. Sasuke and Hinata pretty much kept to themselves for most of the meal, each for their own reasons. ---------------------- A/N: Another piece of Chapter 2 for your enjoyment, this puts me roughly a third of the way through this chapter, you can expect around 3 to 4 more sections over the next few days. 
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09-06-2009, 08:03 AM
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Chapter 2 - continued
---------------------------- After Team 7 had finished their meal, everyone was standing outside the restaurant. Hinata watched as Sasuke silently stalked away from the group, and Sakura trailed behind him. Hinata could make out the pleas of Sakura for Sasuke to walk her home and other such things. I took Hinata a second to realize that she was alone with Naruto. She turned to see him looking at Sakura’s back with a slightly sad expression on his face. Why would he be sad to see her go, did he like her? Maybe he like Sakura the way Hinata liked him. Hinata wasn’t too sure how she felt about that when Naruto turned to leave. She realized that he was going the same way she was going to have to go, so she ran to catch up to him. “Um… N-naruto?” Hinata shyly said his name as a half-question. Naruto turned his head to look at Hinata, “What’s up, Hinata?” “Um…I-I…” Hinata started. **** her weakness. Why couldn’t she talk to him like a normal person? Hinata took a couple of deep breaths and composed herself, “I-I’m sorry that I ran away from you the other day.” She finally said bowing deeply in apology. “Eh?” Naruto replied. He put on his thoughtful face. “Oh, you mean that day when I asked you if you thought I was a nice person?” “H-hai.” Hinata answered. “I actually kinda forgot about that.” Naruto said honestly. “Why did you run away from me anyway.” “I…uh….I-I remembered that I had f-family function to a-attend.” Hinata lied, “But, I-I d-do think you are a n-nice person Naruto.” “Thanks, Hinata.” Naruto said, “That means a lot to me. You know, you’re a really nice person too.” It was by sheer force of will, or maybe luck, that Hinata managed to keep on walking. “T-thank you, Naruto.” Hinata could feel the fire on her cheeks, she knew she had to be as red as a strawberry. Naruto, however, was oblivious to his teammates stress. They walked on in silence, Hinata was too embarassed to say much more anyway. Her heart was aflutter, Naruto-kun thought she was a good person, this was one of the happiest days of her short life. Hinata couldn’t take much more emotional stimulus before she would faint, she was already feeling light-headed as it was. Eventually, they had to part ways, Naruto to head home, and Hinata to head back to Hyuga manor. ---------------------- Obito knew where he needed to go after strolling the streets of Konoha for about an hour, including helping an elderly lady with her groceries. He needed to head to the Hyuga compound to inform Hinata’s father, Hiashi, that Obito would be taking over Hinata’s training as a member of Team 7. It was a ritual that had been dropped by most of the clans of Konoha, but the Hyugas were stubborn people set in their traditions. Obito reached the Hyuga compound shortly. There were a couple of older men watching the front gate. By the way their foreheads were covered, Obito guessed they were branch family members assigned to guard duty. As he approached, the two guards stopped him. “What is your business within the Hyuga manor today?” one of the guards asked him. “I am here to request an audience with Hiashi-sama regarding my being his eldest daughter’s jonin instructor.” Obito replied formally. God, he hated formalities, but it was something that had to be done for Hinata. “You may enter and enjoy the hospitalities in the foyer,” the other guard replied, “but Hiashi-sama is currently in a meeting with the elders of the Hyuga family, it may be a while before he can see you.” Obito put on what he knew was his most reassuring smile, “I’ll wait. Thanks.” With that he strolled leisurely into the Hyuga compound. It was a quite beautiful place actually. There were several well maintained flower and meditation gardens, not to mention enough hanging plants to make everything else, except the Hokage Monument, in Konoha look rather bland. He waited in the appointed place for about an hour and a half, until another branch family member popped in. “Hiashi-sama is out of his meeting and can see you now, Obito-san” the branch member said, “If you would follow me please.” Obito followed the young woman down a few hallway until she finally led him into a small meeting room. Inside, Hiashi Hyuga was enjoying a cup of tea. The woman said, “Hiashi-sama, this is Obito Uchiha, he his Hinata’s jonin instructor.” Hiashi waved the young woman off and invited Obito in. “So, what is it you wish to speak to me about Uchiha?” Hiashi asked abruptly, apparently he wasn’t in any mood for small talk. “I simply came to inform you that I’ll be taking responsibility for your daughter Hinata.” Obito responded just as frankly. “Is this okay with you? As an active duty shinobi she will be in the presence of danger and death.” “While I would have some issues with an Uchiha teaching anything to a Hyuga,” Hiashi stated, where in the hell did he get off insulting Obito’s heritage, “it doesn’t matter. The Hyuga clan doesn’t need Hinata. She’s a loser who has less skill than her sister, who is five years her junior. If that is all you may leave, I’m a busy man.” Obito could barely contain his rage. Honestly, he didn’t give a **** about the obvious slight Hiashi made against his Uchiha lineage. What really cooked the goose was how the man talked about his own daughter. It was all Obito could do to leave peacefully without attempting to strangle every last bit of life out of that ****ed man. As he left the small meeting room and turned to leave the compound, he was stopped short when he saw Hinata standing in the hallway, tears streaming down her face. She must’ve heard the whole thing, Obito thought, that *******. Obito strolled up to Hinata, gave her his most winning smile, hopefully to reassure her. He bent down to her, his mouth to her ear. “I’m sorry that you heard that. He is wrong, though. He doesn’t see in you what I do. You have the capacity for kindness, that is not weakness, and in most cases it’s stronger than any jutsu or techniques you can learn. You will become strong, Hinata. You will change, and he will see it. I believe in you.” Obito rose and looked into his student’s eyes. He could still see the sadness, and she was just barely holding back the tears and sobs. “If you ever need anything, come and find me, my doors are always open. Understood?” He asked. “H-hai.” Hinata replied somberly. Obito gave her one more smile before continuing on out of the building. Behind him, he heard the footfalls of someone running. He sighed to himself, no wonder Hinata was as shy as she was. With a home life this depressing, Obito probably would have had self-esteem issues himself. He was amazed that Hinata hadn’t tried to take her own life yet, Obito sure the thought would’ve ran through his mind by now. Man, he couldn’t wait to get home, he really needed Rin right now. ---------------------------- A/N: An yet another part of Chapter 2 for your reading pleasure. Please review, rates/reviews make me feel appreciated and make me update faster 
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Chapter 2 - continued
------------------- Naruto was the first person to show up at the park the next morning. He knew Obito-sensei told him to wear something other than his orange jumpsuit, but he really liked the color orange, that and he didn’t have any other suitable work-wear. Eh, he wondered if Obito-sensei would even be mad, maybe it was just a joke. Naruto settled himself on it being prank until he saw Sakura-chan strolling up to their meeting spot. Instead of her usual red dress, Sakura was wearing a very dark red, short sleeve shirt and a pair of black compression shorts. Naruto suddenly wasn’t as sure of his prank theory anymore. “What in the world are you doing still wearing that, that, thing?” Sakura asked as she came up to Naruto, “Obito-sensei said to wear something more appropriate, are you trying to get us in trouble, baka?” “Heh,” Naruto replied, shrugging, “I actually don’t have anything else that’s suitable for missions.” “You mean to tell me that all you have to wear is orange jumpsuits?” Sakura asked, the tone in her voice was that of slight shock, of someone who didn’t believe what they just heard. “Well, uh, yeah.” Naruto replied simply. Shortly after Naruto and Sakura’s exchange, Sasuke showed up wearing his usual dark blue shirt, but with black shorts instead of the white ones. Not too far behind him was Hinata, wearing the same thing she always wore. “Hey! Hinata-chan.” Naruto greeted her as she came up to the group. “G-good morning N-naruto.” She replied shyly. “How are you doing?” Naruto asked. Hinata thought back to the things she heard her father say to Obito-sensei. Even after the encouragement that Obito-sensei gave her before he left, Hinata spent most of that night in her room crying, and she really didn’t get enough sleep for it. “I-I’m okay. Th-thanks for asking.” Time passed slowly as Team 7 waited for Obito to show up. Finally at 9:34, Naruto’s cell phone, Obito strolled up to the designated meeting place. “You’re late, again!” Sakura yelled at their sensei, “Where have you been?” “Eh?” Obito replied, “Sorry, I was on my way here when I saw a shopkeep with a broken leg trying to clean up before opening up for the morning, so I stopped to help him.” “That’s bull…” Naruto said. “Think what you will, but it’s the truth.” Obito replied. He looked at the young Hyuga girl in his team. She looked beat, she must not have slept much last night. Probably spent half the night trying to cry herself asleep, Obito pondered sadly. “Anyway, I got our first mission, but first things first.” Obito continued as he redirected his gaze to Naruto. “Why, for the love of everything good and sacred, are you still wearing that outfit?” Naruto gave Obito a sheepish grin and replied honestly, “I don’t have anything else to wear.” Obito placed his face into his palm, “You’ve got to be kidding me…. Alright, Naruto, after our mission today, you and I are going to get you something more appropriate for mission work.” “But, sensei, why am I the only you’re getting mad at? What about Hinata? Her jacket would stick out in a stealth operation too.” Naruto complained. Hinata was blushing and making rather firm eye contact with the ground. Obito simply smiled at Naruto. “Hinata, do you mind showing him?” Obito asked Hinata. Hinata shook her head and pulled at her coat sleeve and pulling the inside out. Naruto saw that the inside looked like the same material as the outside except it was black instead of light tan. “Her jacket is reversible, that’s why. You have anything else you want to complain about?” Obito said as he turned his gaze back to Naruto. Naruto just shook his head. “Good, now, our mission is to recover the Daimyo’s Wife’s cat, Tora, who has escaped while the Daimyo and his wife were on a visit to Konoha. This is what our target looks like…” Obito handed a picture of the cat to the team. “Uh, sensei, what’s with the lame mission. Why can’t we do something cool, like protecting VIPs or infiltrating an enemy base?” Naruto asked. “Because, those missions are out of our current skill range. Especially due to you all being a new team. These D-ranked missions are perfect for us to work on our teamwork, and for you all to get to know each others strengths and weaknesses.” Obito explained. “D-ranked missions?” Naruto said as he looked confusedly at his jonin instructor. “Geez, you baka, did you pay attention to anything the teachers said at the academy?” Sakura scolded, “D-ranked mission are safe mission, they have very little to no chance of enemy involvement.” “What are the other ranks then?” Naruto asked. Sakura looked exasperatedly at Obito. Obito nodded at Sakura informing her to continue her explanation. Sakura sighed, but continued her explanation. “C-ranked missions are more advanced missions in which their will most likely be resistance, but not the involvement of any enemy ninja. B-ranked missions are more dangerous missions where considerable resistance will be encountered along with a small presence of enemy shinobi. A-ranked mission are some of the most dangerous missions out there, with encounters with enemy ninja almost guaranteed. Then there’s S-class missions, also known as the ‘suicide class‘, these missions have the highest chances of death, usually involving fighting Hokage level opponents or other dangerous opponent’s such as demons.” “Anyway, you guys are no where near ready to be thrown into an actual combat situation yet, so we will probably be working D-ranked missions for a little while. It’s to be expected, and I won’t hear any complaining about it, when I feel we are ready to take on a higher ranked assignment, we will. Got it?” Obito finished. All of the genins merely nodded their heads in acceptance. “Good, now we got a cat to catch.” With that, Obito led them off into the forest to the last known location of their target. ---------------------------------------- “Where is everyone?” Hinata heard Obito-sensei’s voice over the radio in her ear. “Sector 1 is clear, no sign of the target.” That was Sakura’s voice. “Sector 3, clear.” This time it was Sasuke. “Sector 4 is clear. No sign of the stupid cat.” Naruto called over the radio. “Hinata? How’s Sector 2.” Obito’s voice came over again. “T-there’s traces of movement here. The target was definitely here not long ago.” Hinata replied as she examined a few small snapped plant limbs leading off in a easterly direction. “Byakugan.” Hinata said while she activated her family’s kekkei genkai. She noticed some movement heading to east-southeast. “Target spotted, coming your way Naruto.” Hinata called out over the radio. “On it, setting up for a chance to capture.” Naruto answered. “Hinata don’t lose it, we’ll set up a perimeter to attempt to capture the target.” Obito’s voice instructed. Hinata launched herself into a chase after the cat. Obito’s voice called out some instructions, “Naruto and Hinata, try to force the target north towards Sasuke and Sakura. Try to pin it in.” “Okay.” Naruto’s voice called over the radio. Hinata saw Naruto lying in wait about 50 meters ahead of her. “N-naruto, the target will be at your position in about few seconds, be ready.” Hinata informed Naruto. As she did, she saw 5 Naruto’s pop out from around the corner and effectively cut off the escape routes to the east and south, while Hinata was preventing any chance for the cat to double-back, that left the cat with one way to go, north. The cat was cornered as Sasuke finally managed to grab the cat. “Mission accomplished.” Sasuke said over the radio. “Good it’s time for us to report in then.” Obito replied, “To Ninja Ops.” Sasuke kept a hold of the cat as Team 7 walked back into the village and proceeded to head to the big red building in the middle of town. They entered the building and entered a moderately large meeting room full of ninjas pouring over scrolls labeled D, C, B, A, and S. The Hokage wasn’t there this afternoon, he had some other issues to take care of. “Team 7 reporting in,” Obito said, “Mission ‘Capture the Missing Pet, Tora’ completed.” As Obito finished, Sasuke handed the cat over to a rather boisterous woman, the Daimyo’s wife. “Good work, Team 7.” One of the ninjas working the missions today was Iruka, he gave Naruto a small smile before continuing on, “Sadly, we have no more lower ranked missions left to hand out for today, come back tomorrow, we might have something more you can do. Here’s your cut of the pay.” Another ninja walked up to Team 7 and handed each member some money. “Thanks, Iruka.” Obito said, “we’ll be taking our leave then.” He escorted the rest of his team out of the building. After they were out of the building, Naruto piped up, “Man that took forever, It’s almost dinner time.” “Well, we would’ve caught it sooner if you hadn’t scared the thing off so many times, idiot.” Sasuke replied. “What was that?” Naruto said, “You got something you wanna say to me?” He looked at Sasuke with anger in his eyes. “NARUTO!” Sakura yelled as she punched him in the back of the head, “Quit picking fights with Sasuke-kun!” She then proceeded to storm off. “Heh, loser.” Sasuke said as he strolled by Naruto. “N-naruto, a-are you a-alright?” Hinata knelt down beside Naruto. “Such purdy birdies…” Naruto said. Hinata could tell that Naruto was quite out of it. Obito sighed, teaching this group teamwork was probably going to be harder than he thought. Especially since Sasuke and Naruto both seemed to want to do their own thing most of the time. “Come on, Naruto.” He said as he hefted Naruto back to his feet, “We still got to get you some more appropriate combat gear.”
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09-07-2009, 03:43 AM
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poor naruto-kun!! i just realized when the girls like omeone or at least the major SasuSaku and NaruHina the girls put kun EWWW SAKURA'S SUCH A GIRLY GIRL!! LOL i like the 4th member of the ino-shika-cho!! XD Quote:
ROFL 'god i hate formalities,' LOL XD!!! I HATE HIASHI AND NEJI, NEJI NOT ANYMORE, BUT STILL!!! Xl Haha. ObitoXRin!! X3 they have kids? yes update faster
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09-07-2009, 05:33 AM
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thanks for the response NineTail. Sadly for you, I'm a huge fan of NaruHina and that's going to be the main ship of this particular series, although these are 12 year olds, and with Hinata's shyness and Naruto being well... Naruto, it's going to be long long process getting them hooked up, it's not going to happen too fast.
Also, Rin is alive, remember she was on the same team as Obito, so she was gone with Obito when the Uchiha Massacre happened. Also, I'm not sure if Obito and Rin are going to have a kid or not, haven't decided.
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