Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ The Beautiful Breakdown ❯ Chapter 2
[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
I‘ve had an offer at beta but it hasn‘t been confirmed so the position is open! I’m sorry there are a lot of typos still. I tried to eliminate as many as possible! I’m taking the advice of one of my reviewers and adding more detail to the appearance not only the emotional aspects. [[ Thanks Veyron_Fan ]] =]
In the favor of Moiraine, Let the Hilarity ensue.
Chapter Two
Naruto looked to see what all the fuss was about and was taken aback by the sight. The timid little girl he’d defended nearly two years ago wasn’t there anymore.
For the first time he took a good look at Hinata.
Her head was bowed, her now long dark locks partially hiding her face, and she was slightly turned in on herself in her discomfort. But her posture didn’t take way from her naturally athletic and graceful physic that was out lined by the edgy clothing she’d put on. The short black clingy skirt went over a pair of short leggings that reached a little lower then the skirt and they showed off her incredibly shapely legs. The shit kicking boots added a masculine appeal only certain girls could pull off and look sexy doing it. The purple low cut spaghetti strap shirt was flirty and showed off her supple breasts and the under fishnet gave an air of sensuality.
It made a man think what she’d look like with only the fishnets left.
“I-I don’t think this is a good idea, Hokage-sama…” Hinata looked up, her forehead bunched with concern.
At the sight of her face the world zeroed in and Naruto was once again floored. Her exotic pale eyes were framed with large sooty lashes that swept across high rosy cheekbones. Her small teeth caught at her lower lip and chewed it with apprehension. An adorably erotic habit that made Naruto wonder what she would taste like. Her long hair was edgy and framed her beautiful face flawlessly.
Tsunade caught the look of captivated desire on Naruto’s face and hid a knowing smile. The older women had seen the look many times over. Arching a delicate brow at the boy she returned her brown gaze towards the girl. “Dear, I think we’ve found a dead ringer.”
Looking at Hinata Naruto didn’t seem to fit anymore. Tsunade flipped through the rack and found something more suitable.
He was thrown an outfit and ordered to change. The two girls were impressed with the outcome.
The boy was allowed to keep his over coat but had donned longer black pants, slightly baggy to make him appear more casual. His signature spiral shirt was upgraded for a black tank with a single orange spiral on the back, it very effectively showed off his body, hard from years of intense ninja training. With his already unruly bed head hair, the few extra accessories, and his startlingly blue eyes he was a dead ringer for any woman’s fantasy.
“You have a day and a half to get to the City and it’s usually a three day trip. You need to hurry. So I suggest you pack and leave now. Naruto, Hinata knows what to do, you follow her direction. Got it?”
They were off. Let the mayhem begin.
* * *
Sweat poured off the ninja. He’d trained for a few extra hours today so his mind would be too tired to torment him. He ripped off his cloths and laid down above the covers. Ever since his reunion with his former team his mind wouldn’t rest. Every time he closed his eyes he was haunted with another memory.
Feelings he’d long buried resurfaced, bonds he though he’d severed were mending.
His body spent of energy drugged him into sleep. But his mind would have none of it.
The sacred place was nearly destroyed from fighting, water fell from above because of a recent landings, mixing with the sweat that covered them both. Anger burbled up and out of Sasuke. His eyes had bleed red long ago from it.
“You never had parents, you never had a brother! So what would you know about me anyway? You were alone from the very start! So why the hell would you know about what I’ve been through?! Huh?! Because of those bonds I’ve suffered. The loss of those bonds you will never understand.” Sasuke screamed out what was left of his bleeding heart. The pain was as raw as the day he’d discovered his brother standing over his slaughtered parents.
Naruto’s face softened, his eyes glazed and his voice turned raspy and far way. “It’s true that I don’t know anything about parents or siblings but when I’m with you I wonder if this is what it’s like to have a brother.”
He looked at his former best friend suddenly at a loss, suddenly curious. “Why go so far for me…?” Sasuke’s eyes bore into equally red, a lump forming in his throat.
“Because to me you represent bonds I’ve waited for so long to make…”
* * *
They stopped for a short break. Hinata was tired and in desperate need for a drink, luckily Naruto’s super human nose had found a peaceful river to refill their canteens. Hinata gulped down her water as fast as she could and wiped the sweat forming on her forehead away. She leaned against a large rock and looked over to where Naruto was sitting. He’d taken off his over coat and stuffed it into his bag. She’d spent many of the miles they’d traveled staring at his well toned muscles. He had grown up quite a bit since she’d last seen him.
Once he’d been the shortest of their class, now he rivaled Kakashi-sensei in height. His shoulders had broadened, he no longer had a boy’s body but that of a young man’s. He stretched, muscles rippling and contracting with controlled movements.
Hinata looked away before she was caught staring. “Naruto-kun?”
“What is it Hinata-chan?”
Her stomach had the nerve to growl loudly. Her cheeks flushed. “I-I’m kind of hungry.”
Naruto laughed, stood up and peeled off his shirt before jumping in, causing as much noise as he could. “Cannon Ball!” Water lapped up over the beach from the force of impact.
She watched as he wrestled a fish from the depths of the water.
“Hah! Caught ya!” Naruto grinned with pride until the slippery fish flipped from his grasp. Naruto pouted a little before setting an adorably determined face and diving right back in.
The entire spectacle was too funny not to at least giggle. Before long Naruto had caught at least three fish and were cooking them over an open fire.
The sun was setting and they hadn’t gotten a quarter of the journey behind them. They finished their meal and put out the fire.
“What the plan from here?” Naruto asked.
“Well, if we want to make it to the city anywhere near the time we should be then we can’t sleep and it’s terribly hard to travel at night…” Hinata chewed her lip trying to formulate a plan that would work to their best benefit.
Naruto pulled his gaze away from her tempting little habit. She really needed to stop doing that. He shook his head and focused on the matter at hand. “We could use my frogs. They’ll do all the work and they go pretty fast.” Naruto shrugged.
“Okay, Naruto-kun, let’s do that.”
Naruto bit his thumb and smeared it across the scroll. “Kuchiyose no Jutsu!” A popping noise sounded and a very abnormally huge orange and blue frog appeared from the poof of smoke, a large necklace draped around his neck.
“Yo, Naruto, what’s up?”
“Hey Gama, we got a bit of a favor to ask you. I need you to carry me and my friend to the City of Sin. We need to be their by tomorrow night. Do you think you could help?”
The second largest frog didn’t seem overly enthusiastic but it wasn’t a big feat for such a large and powerful beast. “Why not? Climb on?”
Both ninja’s climbed on and the frog began moving. Naruto who was accustomed to riding was fine, and soon found a place to situate himself. Hinata was having a harder time and was trying very hard not t stumbled and fall off.
Naruto looked over and saw the girl struggling and walked over totally unfazed and caught her elbows steadying her.
“I-I don’t know how..?” Hinata looked up at him totally at a loss of how to keep from falling. A little flustered because she was in such close proximity with him.
“It’s something you have to learn through experience, until you get it hold onto me.” He took her hand and set it on his shoulder and let go of her elbows slowly walking to the top of the large moving thing’s back and he gently helped her sit down. “See? You kind of have to let your body get used to the rhythm.”
Hinata tried but every time she let go of him she’d end up feeling unstable and grabbing back on to him. She started chewing her lip again.
Naruto took her by the elbows again deciding this was going to be hard for her. “The best way to learn this is to lay on your back, you can still hold onto me.” They both laid back, taking off their bags earlier and strapping them down to the Gama‘s necklace. As Hinata slowly got the hang of things she reluctantly let go of Naruto’s shoulder.
The boy seemed to relax after that weaving his hands behind his head and sighing.
Hinata rung her hands together, she knew she was being ridiculous and needed to stop being so annoying “I’m sorry, Naruto-kun.”
“For what?”
“For being such a burden.”
“You’re not a burden, Hinata-chan. Why would you say that?” He propped himself up on an elbow to look at the curious girl.
The usually quiet and timid girl had enough with this awful feeling that‘d been festering in her for so long! “I can’t seem to do anything right! I’m such a bad ninja! I’m not fit to be the future of my clan! I wish Neji-kun would do it!” A tear slid down her cheek.
“Don’t let anyone tell you don’t deserve to be anything you want to be. Not even yourself.” Naruto voice was firm and his eyes were full of passion and determination. “You’re perfectly capable of being head of that stupid household. You can do it, you just have to let yourself believe you can! And when you get up to that you can make it better! You can fix the things that need to be. Right wrongs…”
Hinata looked up to him, those beautiful lavender orbs watery and sad. She knew of what he spoke. Neji. Neji and his horrible fate. She had never wanted that, she had hated it from the moment she knew of it and it hurt her that he resented her for being born into the main branch. She smiled up at him, a beautifully sad and sweet smile that tugged at his heart strings.
Naruto plopped onto her back again, staring up at the blurs of trees and the large sky. The sun was setting and casting the sky into a spectacle of pastels.
Feeling a huge weight lift off of her heart and the gentle lull of the frog soon had Hinata falling asleep. No longer awake to hold onto anything, when the frog took a particularly large turn hr body rolled into Naruto’s.
And completely startled the young ninja. “Hin-Hinata! What are doing?!” The boy not realizing she was asleep flushed totally at a loss of what to do. He grabbed her shoulder and looked down into her face. It was completely peaceful, her long eyelashes settled over her cheeks. She looked even more fragile when she was asleep. Gently he set her away from him and kept an eye on her so she wouldn’t fall.
“Gama!”
“What’s up Naruto?”
“Hey let‘s stop here for a few hours. We’ll leave again before dawn, okay?” And with that they stopped. Naruto set up camp and picked Hinata up and laid her out on the sleeping bag. When he tried to stand back up he noticed he was caught. Hinata’s tiny hands were fisted in his shirt. He gently pried them open and tucked them under her blanket with the rest of her.
* * *
The City looked as dangerous as its infamous reputation said. Not a soul there looked even remotely innocent or clean. The streets were littered with drunks and drug users begging for money or food.
Hinata couldn’t pry her eyes away from the sight. Her mouth open in disbelief.
Naruto’s eyes turned hard. He’d traveled through here once with Pervert-sensei. This town hadn’t changed at all. He saw a couple of thugs eyeing Hinata with extremely impure intentions on their minds. He pulled her closer to him, grabbing her hand.
“Na-Naruto-kun! What are yo-you doing?” This was highly embarrassing.
“I want you close to me at all times. This town is bad news. You need to use the eyes in the back of your head.” He gave her a pointed look.
Hinata nodded. Naruto really had matured in more then one way, he seemed less silly then he did to years prior. Concealing her hand signs behind Naruto she summoned the technique under her breath. “Tsunade said that we have to be undercover. So we can’t use obvious jutsu’s.”
He nodded. “Let’s find Pervert-sensei and get out of here.” He looked at all the buildings. Finding every saloon they could and asking various people if they’d seen the man. With a few leads they continued their search to the upper classed Gentlemen’s Club.
They stopped outside the door. “No un-employed women allowed” was what the sign read. Naruto had to leave Hinata outside. He seriously did not like that plan but they had to.
“You have to stay right out side the door. I’ll be back out in ten minutes tops.” They had carried only what they needed in one pack and had left the other one and all their other stuff concealed outside the city. He handed it to her. “There are weapons in the front pocket,” He whispered in her ear, trying to make it look like he was whispering something into a lover’s ear, the way she blushed was perfect. He grinned at her before walking inside.
After Naruto was gone suddenly Hinata felt acutely uncomfortable, she’d noticed a few pointed stares but hadn’t thought twice since she was with Naruto.
She saw a man starting to approach her from behind. The law held no place here so she knew if she didn’t have her guard up she’d wind up in very bad predicament. They man continued to inch closer to her as time passed. She tried not to shiver from disgust as she noticed a very perverted once over. She felt so dirty from it.
Naruto should be back any minute and she guessed the man knew that too, so he finally made his move. He charged her fully intending to take her b surprise. The surprise was all his. She twirled on one foot, as graceful as a ballerina, but as precise as her occupation required. Her heel landed across his jaw and he went for a spin. The girl stood in a defensive pose, but not so dramatic that it blew her cover.
The man gave an evil snarl and charged after the girl again. Only to be punched in the face by none other than Naruto. He’d walked out to find Hinata deliver one hell of a blow to the scumbag, now he was going to finish the piece of shit. He delivered another uppercut and the guy went down for the count.
“Nice job, Hinata-chan.” He grinned at her.
“Thank you, Naruto-kun. Any luck?”
“I didn’t find him but I got a solid lead. He’s at the Cat’s Meow.”
“What’s that?”
Naruto grimaced, he really didn‘t want to tell her. “A strip club.”
“Oh.”
In the favor of Moiraine, Let the Hilarity ensue.
Chapter Two
Naruto looked to see what all the fuss was about and was taken aback by the sight. The timid little girl he’d defended nearly two years ago wasn’t there anymore.
For the first time he took a good look at Hinata.
Her head was bowed, her now long dark locks partially hiding her face, and she was slightly turned in on herself in her discomfort. But her posture didn’t take way from her naturally athletic and graceful physic that was out lined by the edgy clothing she’d put on. The short black clingy skirt went over a pair of short leggings that reached a little lower then the skirt and they showed off her incredibly shapely legs. The shit kicking boots added a masculine appeal only certain girls could pull off and look sexy doing it. The purple low cut spaghetti strap shirt was flirty and showed off her supple breasts and the under fishnet gave an air of sensuality.
It made a man think what she’d look like with only the fishnets left.
“I-I don’t think this is a good idea, Hokage-sama…” Hinata looked up, her forehead bunched with concern.
At the sight of her face the world zeroed in and Naruto was once again floored. Her exotic pale eyes were framed with large sooty lashes that swept across high rosy cheekbones. Her small teeth caught at her lower lip and chewed it with apprehension. An adorably erotic habit that made Naruto wonder what she would taste like. Her long hair was edgy and framed her beautiful face flawlessly.
Tsunade caught the look of captivated desire on Naruto’s face and hid a knowing smile. The older women had seen the look many times over. Arching a delicate brow at the boy she returned her brown gaze towards the girl. “Dear, I think we’ve found a dead ringer.”
Looking at Hinata Naruto didn’t seem to fit anymore. Tsunade flipped through the rack and found something more suitable.
He was thrown an outfit and ordered to change. The two girls were impressed with the outcome.
The boy was allowed to keep his over coat but had donned longer black pants, slightly baggy to make him appear more casual. His signature spiral shirt was upgraded for a black tank with a single orange spiral on the back, it very effectively showed off his body, hard from years of intense ninja training. With his already unruly bed head hair, the few extra accessories, and his startlingly blue eyes he was a dead ringer for any woman’s fantasy.
“You have a day and a half to get to the City and it’s usually a three day trip. You need to hurry. So I suggest you pack and leave now. Naruto, Hinata knows what to do, you follow her direction. Got it?”
They were off. Let the mayhem begin.
* * *
Sweat poured off the ninja. He’d trained for a few extra hours today so his mind would be too tired to torment him. He ripped off his cloths and laid down above the covers. Ever since his reunion with his former team his mind wouldn’t rest. Every time he closed his eyes he was haunted with another memory.
Feelings he’d long buried resurfaced, bonds he though he’d severed were mending.
His body spent of energy drugged him into sleep. But his mind would have none of it.
The sacred place was nearly destroyed from fighting, water fell from above because of a recent landings, mixing with the sweat that covered them both. Anger burbled up and out of Sasuke. His eyes had bleed red long ago from it.
“You never had parents, you never had a brother! So what would you know about me anyway? You were alone from the very start! So why the hell would you know about what I’ve been through?! Huh?! Because of those bonds I’ve suffered. The loss of those bonds you will never understand.” Sasuke screamed out what was left of his bleeding heart. The pain was as raw as the day he’d discovered his brother standing over his slaughtered parents.
Naruto’s face softened, his eyes glazed and his voice turned raspy and far way. “It’s true that I don’t know anything about parents or siblings but when I’m with you I wonder if this is what it’s like to have a brother.”
He looked at his former best friend suddenly at a loss, suddenly curious. “Why go so far for me…?” Sasuke’s eyes bore into equally red, a lump forming in his throat.
“Because to me you represent bonds I’ve waited for so long to make…”
* * *
They stopped for a short break. Hinata was tired and in desperate need for a drink, luckily Naruto’s super human nose had found a peaceful river to refill their canteens. Hinata gulped down her water as fast as she could and wiped the sweat forming on her forehead away. She leaned against a large rock and looked over to where Naruto was sitting. He’d taken off his over coat and stuffed it into his bag. She’d spent many of the miles they’d traveled staring at his well toned muscles. He had grown up quite a bit since she’d last seen him.
Once he’d been the shortest of their class, now he rivaled Kakashi-sensei in height. His shoulders had broadened, he no longer had a boy’s body but that of a young man’s. He stretched, muscles rippling and contracting with controlled movements.
Hinata looked away before she was caught staring. “Naruto-kun?”
“What is it Hinata-chan?”
Her stomach had the nerve to growl loudly. Her cheeks flushed. “I-I’m kind of hungry.”
Naruto laughed, stood up and peeled off his shirt before jumping in, causing as much noise as he could. “Cannon Ball!” Water lapped up over the beach from the force of impact.
She watched as he wrestled a fish from the depths of the water.
“Hah! Caught ya!” Naruto grinned with pride until the slippery fish flipped from his grasp. Naruto pouted a little before setting an adorably determined face and diving right back in.
The entire spectacle was too funny not to at least giggle. Before long Naruto had caught at least three fish and were cooking them over an open fire.
The sun was setting and they hadn’t gotten a quarter of the journey behind them. They finished their meal and put out the fire.
“What the plan from here?” Naruto asked.
“Well, if we want to make it to the city anywhere near the time we should be then we can’t sleep and it’s terribly hard to travel at night…” Hinata chewed her lip trying to formulate a plan that would work to their best benefit.
Naruto pulled his gaze away from her tempting little habit. She really needed to stop doing that. He shook his head and focused on the matter at hand. “We could use my frogs. They’ll do all the work and they go pretty fast.” Naruto shrugged.
“Okay, Naruto-kun, let’s do that.”
Naruto bit his thumb and smeared it across the scroll. “Kuchiyose no Jutsu!” A popping noise sounded and a very abnormally huge orange and blue frog appeared from the poof of smoke, a large necklace draped around his neck.
“Yo, Naruto, what’s up?”
“Hey Gama, we got a bit of a favor to ask you. I need you to carry me and my friend to the City of Sin. We need to be their by tomorrow night. Do you think you could help?”
The second largest frog didn’t seem overly enthusiastic but it wasn’t a big feat for such a large and powerful beast. “Why not? Climb on?”
Both ninja’s climbed on and the frog began moving. Naruto who was accustomed to riding was fine, and soon found a place to situate himself. Hinata was having a harder time and was trying very hard not t stumbled and fall off.
Naruto looked over and saw the girl struggling and walked over totally unfazed and caught her elbows steadying her.
“I-I don’t know how..?” Hinata looked up at him totally at a loss of how to keep from falling. A little flustered because she was in such close proximity with him.
“It’s something you have to learn through experience, until you get it hold onto me.” He took her hand and set it on his shoulder and let go of her elbows slowly walking to the top of the large moving thing’s back and he gently helped her sit down. “See? You kind of have to let your body get used to the rhythm.”
Hinata tried but every time she let go of him she’d end up feeling unstable and grabbing back on to him. She started chewing her lip again.
Naruto took her by the elbows again deciding this was going to be hard for her. “The best way to learn this is to lay on your back, you can still hold onto me.” They both laid back, taking off their bags earlier and strapping them down to the Gama‘s necklace. As Hinata slowly got the hang of things she reluctantly let go of Naruto’s shoulder.
The boy seemed to relax after that weaving his hands behind his head and sighing.
Hinata rung her hands together, she knew she was being ridiculous and needed to stop being so annoying “I’m sorry, Naruto-kun.”
“For what?”
“For being such a burden.”
“You’re not a burden, Hinata-chan. Why would you say that?” He propped himself up on an elbow to look at the curious girl.
The usually quiet and timid girl had enough with this awful feeling that‘d been festering in her for so long! “I can’t seem to do anything right! I’m such a bad ninja! I’m not fit to be the future of my clan! I wish Neji-kun would do it!” A tear slid down her cheek.
“Don’t let anyone tell you don’t deserve to be anything you want to be. Not even yourself.” Naruto voice was firm and his eyes were full of passion and determination. “You’re perfectly capable of being head of that stupid household. You can do it, you just have to let yourself believe you can! And when you get up to that you can make it better! You can fix the things that need to be. Right wrongs…”
Hinata looked up to him, those beautiful lavender orbs watery and sad. She knew of what he spoke. Neji. Neji and his horrible fate. She had never wanted that, she had hated it from the moment she knew of it and it hurt her that he resented her for being born into the main branch. She smiled up at him, a beautifully sad and sweet smile that tugged at his heart strings.
Naruto plopped onto her back again, staring up at the blurs of trees and the large sky. The sun was setting and casting the sky into a spectacle of pastels.
Feeling a huge weight lift off of her heart and the gentle lull of the frog soon had Hinata falling asleep. No longer awake to hold onto anything, when the frog took a particularly large turn hr body rolled into Naruto’s.
And completely startled the young ninja. “Hin-Hinata! What are doing?!” The boy not realizing she was asleep flushed totally at a loss of what to do. He grabbed her shoulder and looked down into her face. It was completely peaceful, her long eyelashes settled over her cheeks. She looked even more fragile when she was asleep. Gently he set her away from him and kept an eye on her so she wouldn’t fall.
“Gama!”
“What’s up Naruto?”
“Hey let‘s stop here for a few hours. We’ll leave again before dawn, okay?” And with that they stopped. Naruto set up camp and picked Hinata up and laid her out on the sleeping bag. When he tried to stand back up he noticed he was caught. Hinata’s tiny hands were fisted in his shirt. He gently pried them open and tucked them under her blanket with the rest of her.
* * *
The City looked as dangerous as its infamous reputation said. Not a soul there looked even remotely innocent or clean. The streets were littered with drunks and drug users begging for money or food.
Hinata couldn’t pry her eyes away from the sight. Her mouth open in disbelief.
Naruto’s eyes turned hard. He’d traveled through here once with Pervert-sensei. This town hadn’t changed at all. He saw a couple of thugs eyeing Hinata with extremely impure intentions on their minds. He pulled her closer to him, grabbing her hand.
“Na-Naruto-kun! What are yo-you doing?” This was highly embarrassing.
“I want you close to me at all times. This town is bad news. You need to use the eyes in the back of your head.” He gave her a pointed look.
Hinata nodded. Naruto really had matured in more then one way, he seemed less silly then he did to years prior. Concealing her hand signs behind Naruto she summoned the technique under her breath. “Tsunade said that we have to be undercover. So we can’t use obvious jutsu’s.”
He nodded. “Let’s find Pervert-sensei and get out of here.” He looked at all the buildings. Finding every saloon they could and asking various people if they’d seen the man. With a few leads they continued their search to the upper classed Gentlemen’s Club.
They stopped outside the door. “No un-employed women allowed” was what the sign read. Naruto had to leave Hinata outside. He seriously did not like that plan but they had to.
“You have to stay right out side the door. I’ll be back out in ten minutes tops.” They had carried only what they needed in one pack and had left the other one and all their other stuff concealed outside the city. He handed it to her. “There are weapons in the front pocket,” He whispered in her ear, trying to make it look like he was whispering something into a lover’s ear, the way she blushed was perfect. He grinned at her before walking inside.
After Naruto was gone suddenly Hinata felt acutely uncomfortable, she’d noticed a few pointed stares but hadn’t thought twice since she was with Naruto.
She saw a man starting to approach her from behind. The law held no place here so she knew if she didn’t have her guard up she’d wind up in very bad predicament. They man continued to inch closer to her as time passed. She tried not to shiver from disgust as she noticed a very perverted once over. She felt so dirty from it.
Naruto should be back any minute and she guessed the man knew that too, so he finally made his move. He charged her fully intending to take her b surprise. The surprise was all his. She twirled on one foot, as graceful as a ballerina, but as precise as her occupation required. Her heel landed across his jaw and he went for a spin. The girl stood in a defensive pose, but not so dramatic that it blew her cover.
The man gave an evil snarl and charged after the girl again. Only to be punched in the face by none other than Naruto. He’d walked out to find Hinata deliver one hell of a blow to the scumbag, now he was going to finish the piece of shit. He delivered another uppercut and the guy went down for the count.
“Nice job, Hinata-chan.” He grinned at her.
“Thank you, Naruto-kun. Any luck?”
“I didn’t find him but I got a solid lead. He’s at the Cat’s Meow.”
“What’s that?”
Naruto grimaced, he really didn‘t want to tell her. “A strip club.”
“Oh.”