Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Troublesome ❯ 02 Of Perverts and Plots ( Chapter 2 )

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

Pairing: Shikamaru/Naruto

Stuff: um…be on the look out for sisterly Sakura and some Sasuke bashing. I reread the whole Valley of the End incident from my manga collection and am upset with him for the moment…please no flames…

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02: Of Perverts and Plots

Naruto and Sakura were doing their daily training under the spastic tutelage of the sensei, Kakashi.

…or at least that’s what they were supposed to be doing…

In reality, Sakura was punching a few trees into oblivion, Naruto was wandering around the training grounds like a lost puppy, or fox in his case, and Kakashi hadn’t been seen or heard from for hours which meant one of two things:

1. He was hiding somewhere, reading that perverted little book of his and giggling in an extremely disturbing fashion that never failed to creep out his students.

2. He had run off to find and molest his sweet little ‘Iruka-chan.’

Regardless of what he was doing, nobody bothered to look for him.

No one really wanted to.

Sakura had finished obliterating her daily amount of trees when she turned her attention to her teammate and gave a worried frown. Ever since they managed to bring back Sasuke, he had been like this.

Sakura had to stop herself from thinking about Sasuke because it tended to get her violently angry. When she, Naruto and Yamato had infiltrated Orochimaru’s headquarters to retrieve him, he had tried to kill Naruto for a second time.

Apparently he still thought that he was perfectly justified in trying to obtain the Mangekyo Sharingan. Sakura had punched him into a crater a few dozen times in retaliation for attacking Naruto. They were able to retrieve Sasuke, but he did have to spend a very long time in the hospital.

Right now, Sasuke was under heavy surveillance by the Anbu and was not permitted to be anywhere near Naruto. Sakura remembered the Gondaime making it very clear that if she suspected that he was even considering going near the blonde, then she would kill him on the spot and she didn’t give a rat’s furry ass if it meant eradicating the Uchiha bloodline off the face of the planet.

Sakura remembered that due to the fact that she had never seen Tsunade-sama so angry beforehand, even comparing it to the one time were a drunken Jaraiya groped her. Shizune seemed shocked by that level of rage and that had been the only time that she had ever seen Sasuke scared.

She supposed it was for the best. He was still obsessed with being an avenger, or so she heard from Anko and Ibiki, and Naruto would never fight Sasuke with the intent to kill. She remembered hearing of their battle in the Valley of the End and Naruto telling her that all he wanted to do was beat Sasuke enough to drag him back. Even the fox wouldn’t get him to kill his ‘friend.’

That was what perhaps drove Sakura to become an elder sister of sorts to the blonde boy. She had always known on some level that no matter what Naruto would never do anything to intentionally hurt Sasuke. Whether the fox wanted to or not didn’t really seem to matter all too much either, Naruto stopped the fox before it could ever do anything permanent or fatal, but it would only come out under extreme circumstances. Sakura was also more than aware that Sasuke would exploit that fact; he did so on numerous occasions. Sakura had seen it when they sparred together, back when team 7 was still together, Sasuke would take advantage of the fact that Naruto only wanted to do that, spar, and punch his lights out.

Sakura refused to think of the incident of the Valley of the End and what had happened to Naruto, it was usually when she did that Inner Sakura’s murderous rage directed itself towards a certain Uchiha.

What in the seven circles of the underworld made her chase him around like a bitch in heat when she was younger?

Sakura shook her head, ridding herself of those thoughts and turned her attention towards her blonde teammate.

Naruto had hopped up on a tree and was looking towards the forest with a slightly wistful expression on his face. Sakura smiled at that a little bit. Naruto had once told her that due to the kyuubi, he felt that he had some sort of connection with nature in general and that he felt totally safe.

At that thought, Sakura saddened a bit. Naruto should feel happy and healthy in the village that he loved so much, but that wasn’t going to be in the cards for a very long time. Not if those decayed old farts on the council had anything to do with it. Inner Sakura was plotting their downfall.

“Hey Naruto! Let’s move the training to the forest for a bit, I’m running out of trees to practice on.”

Naruto looked at her and then shuddered at the sight of the trees that she demolished, ‘Scary.’

“Okay, Sakura,” and a devious fox grin worked to his face, “Last person there has to go ‘look’ for Kakashi-sensei.”

Sakura inwardly shuddered at that. Naruto ‘found’ Kakashi with Iruka once and let us just say that he just recently worked up the courage to look either one of them in the face without turning red.

“Okay, You’re on Blondie!”

Naruto twitched a little at the nickname but he couldn’t stop the wide smile from forming on his face and with that disappeared in a yellow flash.

Sakura smiled a bit to herself, “At least I got him to smile a little today.”

“Yup.”

Sakura jumped and then turned around and glared at Kakashi.

“Where were you?,” Sakura demanded.

Kakashi smiled, or she guessed he was smiling judging from the way his eye crinkled and answered, “I got lost on the road of life.”

Sakura felt her eyebrow twitch, ‘Such a lame-ass excuse…’

“So how is Naruto doing?,” Kakashi asked noticing her agitation and deciding to pay attention. Really she was almost as scary as Tsunade at times!!

“A little better today, but he seems…lost…lonely.”

Kakashi took that piece of information in and after a moment of quiet contemplation, smiled again, “If he’s lonely then let’s find him a boyfriend!”

Sakura mulled the idea over for a few minutes, ‘It would be good for Naruto to have someone there to care for him….’

“It would be good for him,” she conceded, “But who?”

“It‘s not going to be hard to find him one. He is adorable,” Kakashi nodded to himself, “In fact if I didn’t have my dear Iruka-chan, I would most definitely go for him.”

Sakura silently thanked Kami for Iruka. It hurt her brain to imagine Kakashi and Naruto together.

***

Shikamaru entered one of the training grounds that Naruto was known to frequent and found Kakashi and Sakura.

Shikamaru automatically felt a wave of dread pass through him, those two looked as though they were plotting something.

Noticing that Naruto was nowhere to be seen he decided to approach them and see if they knew where the blonde was.

Sakura noticed him before he opened his mouth, “Hey Shikamaru! What are you doing here?”

“Looking for Naruto. Do either of you know where he is?,” Shikamaru felt nervous as he noticed an odd gleam in the konoichi’s eyes.

“Yeah. He’s in the forest doing some extra training.”

Shikamaru thanked them and made his way to the forest.

***

Kakashi and Sakura stood stock still, watching the lazy ninja disappear into the forest..

Kakashi spoke up first, “I believe we found a good candidate for Naruto.”