Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ A Fated Meeting ❯ Surprising Turn of Events… ( Chapter 11 )

A/N: I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while, but not so many people reviewed and I got stuck on this story. Well I hope you all enjoy, and remember to review this time!

 

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A Fated Meeting: Chapter 12: Surprising Turn of Events…

 

“This is a disgrace!! Why do we get this lamo mission?! Why, sensei, why are you even accepting this?! We don't deserve this! I don't deserve this!”

 

Naruto angrily ranted as Kakashi accepted the F-rank mission from the elderly Hokage.

 

“Maa, Maa, calm yourself, Naruto,” Kakashi said waving his hand as he did so, but that had no affect on the poor boy. “This is what every genin starts out with. After all, who would get them if there were no genins to do them?”

 

“I don't believe this!” Naruto screeched, crossing his arms furiously.

 

“I don't believe you!” Sakura said, pulling Naruto up by his ear.

 

“Ahhh! Sakura-chan! Lemme go! Please?”

 

“You are such an annoying freak, Naruto-baka!”

 

She started to pull his ear harder, until she heard Sasuke speak in a cynical tone, as always:

 

“If I didn't know any better I'd say you two were dating and this was dating abuse.”

 

“This is abuse, that's for sure,” Naruto spouted, then tugged out of Sakura's grip and rubbed his ear.

 

Sakura was however twitching.

 

`How could Sasuke-kun say that?' she thought, utterly baffled. `Doesn't he know I love him? Naruto annoys me so much that I have to attack him, he asks for it with his behavior! Why did he say this? Why?'

 

`Ludacris!' Inner Sakura yelled.

 

“Now kids, calm down, and let's get started on our mission,” Kakashi said.

 

“I refuse!” Naruto yelled, then Sasuke grabbed his arm and everyone started to walk out, Sasuke pulling the struggling Naruto with him.

 

After they got out the building, he let go, and they followed Kakashi to wherever he was going, Naruto grumbling as he went along. After a few moments of awkward silence, Sakura spoke up.

 

“Eh…sensei?”

 

“Yes Sakura?” Kakashi asked.

 

“What's our mission? And where are we going?”

 

“Good question…we're going three miles away to help the old lady pick the weeds out of her garden.”

 

“Ahh…” Sakura said, attempting to sound interested, then sighed and said, “That sounds lame.”

 

“But it builds up proficiency!”

 

“I don't need proficiency!” Naruto yelled, causing Sasuke to start laughing slightly. “I've got plenty already.”

 

“Well then we'll see you demonstrate it. Now let's go.”

 

In a moment they reached an old lady's house. Upon seeing them, she directed them to her garden.

 

“I need you all to pick out the weeds that are suffocating my darling roses and petunias, and my lovely lawn. When you are finished, I will give you all lemonade.” She said, and then retreated to her house.

 

For a few minutes the three young genin picked the brambles, dandelions, and other assorted weeds, but soon Naruto became very bored. So he decided to start picking everything, including the flowers and grass. Of course, as soon as he created a big vacant space in his assigned part of the garden the old lady came out. Upon seeing the hole, she became extremely enraged, and then wasted no time in attacking Naruto.

 

“You naughty boy!” she screeched. “DO you know how long I spent planting these flowers? Do you know how LONG I waited for them to BLOOM?! You will get me more flowers!! You will plant them, or I will murder you!!”

 

“Y-y-yes! Sorry, m'am!” Naruto stuttered, then in the blink of an eye he ran to the gardener store and bought the most exotic flowers available, which cost him all the money he had, then rushed back and planted them neatly.

 

The lady was indeed surprised, and then grinned at the flowers.

 

“I think I like those better. Now finish your job, and no more pulling out my flowers and grass!”

 

“Yes!!”

 

The lady left and Sasuke and Sakura laughed at him, Sakura laughing because of her nature and Sasuke laughing to see what Naruto's reaction would be. He still would not apologize, and was waiting for Naruto to. Of course, Naruto just shrugged then continued on his job, leaving Sasuke fuming.

 

`I will win,' he thought. `Naruto will apologize to me so I won't have to, then we'll be friends again...just how long am I going to have to wait until he does?'

 

Sasuke scowled, and then Naruto noticed and stuck his tongue at him.

 

`Wonder why he's all frowny,' Naruto thought, then shrugged. `Wait…he's always like that.'

 

A few moments later, they were done and were sitting on the patio drinking lemonade. Kakashi and the old lady were having an animated talk, and while Naruto was trying his best to watch, he soon grew bored very, very quickly. He then turned to Sasuke, who was staring at the tree, as usual, with his usual bored stare. He turned to Sakura, who was fluffing her hair in valiant attempts to gain Sasuke's attention, all to no avail. It was too bad really. If Sakura and Sasuke suddenly fell madly in love, Naruto wouldn't mind really, for he expected it all along. Sure he would be really jealous and mad for a while, but in the long run he would be satisfied knowing that Sakura was happy. But if Sakura fell in love with him and Ino and Sasuke fell madly in love…who cares about Sasuke's love choice?! He got the girl he always dreamed about, and that's all that really mattered in the end.

 

He sighed, lost in his thoughts. One day Ino told him that Hinata liked him and he was too blind to see it. A while after that he ran into Hinata herself and then he saw her apparent crush. So he thought about it for a while, to give her a chance. Sure she was cute, and maybe they would look cute together. But…she was really too shy for him. Sakura was loud and independent sometimes, not to say that Hinata isn't for she is, but he found that boastfulness attractive for some reason. And it wasn't because he fell in love with her when he was really small, for it wasn't relying on that entirely. She had really grown, and he could tell that she would grow more during the years, in both knowledge and strength. But she was already strong…

 

“Hey baka,” he heard Sasuke said, who banged him on the head. “It's time to go, so get outta your head for now.”

 

“Ok, Sasuke,” Naruto said, getting up while rubbing his head painfully.

 

“Come along now, we have to go back to the Hokage tower to see if he has another mission for us,” Kakashi said, then started walking back, Sasuke and Sakura following him close behind.

 

“Whadda you mean, another mission?!” Naruto yelled, and then ran to catch up.

 

“But before that, I need to stop by the book store,” Kakashi continued.

 

“It's for that book again, eh Kakashi-sensei?” Naruto asked, winking.

 

“Eh…yeah,” Kakashi said sheepishly, rubbing the back of his head.

 

“To keep this between us…why don't you buy me one? Come on, sensei!”

 

“No way! You're too young, it's 18 and over!”

 

“Just kidding sensei, I just keep to the bikini girls, only someone as perverted as you would choose something worse.”

 

Naruto then proceeded to glare accusingly at Kakashi, causing him to shiver.

 

`Well, he's good at staring, that's for sure,' Kakashi thought. `But what I wonder is when he did get good at it…'

 

Then the group walked peacefully to where the bookstore was. Kakashi was about to go inside until he ran into a very bulky man. He looked up only to find himself face to face with Jiraiya, one of the three legendary sennin. Then, Kakashi started to freak out because he was the author of his favorite book series.

 

“Jiraiya! Since when have you been back in Kohana? Your new book sounds so awesome; I can't wait to read it!”

 

The three genins twitched, for he was acting very O.O.C. The sennin grinned, and then started to do a very crazy dance. The genins twitched more until he stopped.

 

“Well, you've won the 100th customer at the doorstop prize! The 100th customer runs into me and then gets a free autographed book!” Jiraiya said boastfully. He then pulled a book out of his chest pocket and a pen from his pack and signed it. After that, he handed it to Kakashi.

 

Kakashi stoically said “Thanks. I will surely enjoy this.”

 

“Of course you will! It's loaded with even more goodies!”

 

“…who are you, anyways,” Naruto said, blinking.

 

Jiraiya turned to him, and then laughed. “Why, you don't know who I am? I am the great Jiraiya, one of the three legendary sennins of Kohana!” Drums played while he was speaking, then faded away.

 

“Oh, oh…so…are you a pervert too, since you're talking about those books?”

 

“Nu uh, I'm the author of those books!”

 

“The author, eh?” Naruto rubbed his chin for a second, and then spoke again. “So that means you're the king of perverts?”

 

“What?! I…”

 

Naruto interrupted him, starting to chant “Ero-sennin! Ero-sennin! Ero-SENNIN!”

 

“Stop saying that! You're marring my name! Who knows who might hear?!”

 

Sasuke started smirking because the scene was funny. Sakura had to struggle to keep her laughter in.

 

“Ero, sennin, ero, sennin, ero-sennin!!!”

 

“Get this crazy kid away from me!!!!”

 

Jiraiya then ran away as fast as he could, Naruto chanting louder and louder until he ran away.

 

“Well, that was fun,” Naruto said, grinning.

 

“At least I got my free book,” Kakashi said. “Now let's go back to the Hokage Tower. We can still do one more mission.”

 

“Aww…these missions are boring,” Sakura said under her breath.

 

“Let's get this over with,” Sasuke muttered.

 

Then they all started on the road back to the Hokage Tower, where fate awaited them…

 

A pudgy yet tall man with a straw hat on was leaning against the wall. The Hokage turned to him.

 

“I'm filing the mission now. You say, you only need protection from bandits while you built your bridge.”

 

“Yep,” the man said.

 

“So that's about a low C…ok. We'll get a team for you in a few days.”