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Hello, NB people. I'm glad you dropped by. Well, here's the next chapter of my Fan-made-Fiction Story. My apologies, it's kinda long and I can't shorten it no matter how hard I tried. But this chapter contains about three scenarios, so I hope it's going to be worth your time.
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This one is the detailed version:
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Here's the dialogue version:
CHAPTER FOUR: A Mysterious Encounter
Grumpily, Naruto went off to the direction that Kakashi instructed him to go. Kakashi’s blank face suddenly flashed on his mind. He noticed the same blank face that he saw on the morning of their departure. Well, not that you could always see an expression in his face, but that was just really different. He seemed to carry a totally different bitter emotion.
Naruto’s brows crossed as Kakashi’s impassive face continued to flash before him. Later he realized that Kakashi ended his story with the same bitter expression. Does the Taiyou Village’s story have something to do about Kakashi’s emotions this morning?
Naruto: *to his self* ‘Hmm! I will never give up until I know. You watch out, Kakashi-Sensei! If you are not going to tell me more then, I’ll find the answers myself! *Raising his right fists halfway up, Naruto fired up his unending determination*
Kakashi:Ah, this should be it.
After he patrolled the area, Kakashi side tripped to the village. This was the first time that he came to this village but he was sure that he would find the right spot. And sure enough, his calculations were right. In the very center of the ruined village is a circular spot, about 2 meters in diameters, different from the rest of the village’s ground. While all that surrounds it have burn marks, this one only had signs of damage caused by time.
He reached to his bag and took out a head protector. The metal on the head protector had the same damage markings as the ruins in this village are. It used to have a village’s sign in it, but that could no longer be identified. The burnt-sienna markings twirled around the sign altering it completely. Kakashi took a deep breath and after looking at it for the last time, he held the head protector and fastened it to the post.
Naruto: All right! This will be cool! *stretched up after cooling off* Ahhhhh! That was refresh - - - ghaak!!!
* Fell off his feet, rolled to the ground and ended up on rock with his butt over his head.*
???: Hahahahahaha! You’re such a funny kid. *stepped from the water and helped him*
???: What are you doing here spiky head? And why is your hair yellow? …hihihihihihi…” *touched Naruto’s hair*
Naruto: SPIKY HEAD!!! YOU GOT ME SCARED OUT THERE AND NOW YOU’RE CALLING ME A SPIKY HEAD?!
???: Oh my, oh my, you have one big mouth, eh?
Naruto: YOU JUST RUINED A REFRESHING MOMENT THAT I WAS ENJOYING AND YOU STILL HAVE THE NERVE TO LAUGH AT ME?!!!
???: Oh?...What are you scared of?...Ghosts? - - hihihihihihi…
???: Do I look like a ghost to you? *pressed his cheeks with her palms*
Sooner than he could realize, Naruto found himself laughing, too. Her laugh was contagious that it felt like they have been friends for a long time.
???: Hmmmn. *smiled*
???: Are you from here, kid?
Naruto: No, why? *in thoughts* sweet smile.
???: Hmmn. *twisted her lips*
???: Nothing important really. It’s just that this place makes me feel happy and so light-hearted. I thought you were from around this area and so perhaps you might have something to tell me about this place.
Naruto: *in thoughts* Does she have jeweled stones behind those veils?
The lady wore a white outfit and her hood was covering her face down to her nose. He could only see her lips from where he is standing. The hood was transparent but not enough to give him a clear look. He could tell though that she was looking at him.
(Note: From the long version below, you can find specific details about our mysterious character.)
Naruto: Well, I am just a passerby so I’m sorry I would not be able to give you any information about this place. *walks back to the stream to get his head protector*
Naruto: But, I know someone who mi - - huh?!”
Naruto: W-what the…?! Where’s she go? *listened to his surroundings*
Naruto: Aha! *turned to his back and faced the lady* Got you!
???: Uh-huh. *nodded*
Naruto: You can’t trick a Konoha Shinobi twice, lady. *fastened his head protector and posed*
???: K-Ko-no-ha? S-Shi-no-bi? *stammered*
Naruto: Yes, that’s right! Uzumaki Naruto, the best Hokage you will ever know someday!
???: *leaned forward and looked closer on his head protector like she was inspecting it*
???: Argh! *placed fingers on her temples*
Naruto: Huh? What hap…?
Naruto stepped forward to help her but she stepped back. Naruto’s eyes caught up with the sun that he had to close them to avoid the glare. The next time he opened them, the lady was no longer there. She had vanished again. This time, he could no longer feel her presence.
Naruto: Oh, cripes! Where’d she go again!!! *quickly left, afraid*
Naruto: Hmmmn, I still have about 7 minutes to get back to the rendezvous point. I could still buy some time to go check out the village.
Naruto: Huh! Kakashi-sensei? *softly*
Kakashi: Naruto! *from behind him*
Naruto: Ahck! *surprised*
Kakashi: Hmn. Come with me. *stepped past him and back to the center*
Naruto: E-he-he-he. *puts his right hand at the back of his nape*
Kakashi’s stern looks mellowed as he realized that Naruto must have become deeply curious with him after seeing him on that morning of their departure and then now. He halted standing on the post waiting for Naruto to catch up with him.
Kakashi: Did you get anything from your patrol, Naruto?
Naruto: Nah, I met mysterious white lady.” He replied, excited and a little embarrassed.
Kakashi: *stared at him, telling him to stop joking around*
Naruto: No-o-o *shaking both his head and his hands to him* Really, Kakashi-Sensei. I’m not joking. She suddenly appeared and disappeared to me in the flare of the sun. She was asking me if I were from this place.” He continued as Kakashi’s looks told him to continue.
Kakashi: And why?
Naruto: I-I really don’t exactly know why. She said that the place seems to make her happy. Which I think is just normal, right? The stream there was cool, the breeze was fresh. I was happy myself until she showed right up to my face!
Naruto stopped talking when he noticed that Kakashi looked satisfied with his report. Time seemed to pass slowly between them as they now both stand facing the post. After a while, they decided to go back and join the others.
Grumpily, Naruto went off to the direction that Kakashi instructed him to go. Kakashi’s blank face suddenly flashed on his mind. He noticed the same blank face that he saw on the morning of their departure. Well, not that you could always see an expression in his face, but that was just really different. He seemed to carry a totally different bitter emotion.
Naruto’s brows crossed as Kakashi’s impassive face continued to flash before him. Later he realized that Kakashi ended his story with the same bitter expression. Does the Taiyou Village’s story have something to do about Kakashi’s emotions this morning?
Naruto: *to his self* ‘Hmm! I will never give up until I know. You watch out, Kakashi-Sensei! If you are not going to tell me more then, I’ll find the answers myself! *Raising his right fists halfway up, Naruto fired up his unending determination*
*****
Kakashi:Ah, this should be it.
After he patrolled the area, Kakashi side tripped to the village. This was the first time that he came to this village but he was sure that he would find the right spot. And sure enough, his calculations were right. In the very center of the ruined village is a circular spot, about 2 meters in diameters, different from the rest of the village’s ground. While all that surrounds it have burn marks, this one only had signs of damage caused by time.
He reached to his bag and took out a head protector. The metal on the head protector had the same damage markings as the ruins in this village are. It used to have a village’s sign in it, but that could no longer be identified. The burnt-sienna markings twirled around the sign altering it completely. Kakashi took a deep breath and after looking at it for the last time, he held the head protector and fastened it to the post.
*****
Naruto: All right! This will be cool! *stretched up after cooling off* Ahhhhh! That was refresh - - - ghaak!!!
* Fell off his feet, rolled to the ground and ended up on rock with his butt over his head.*
???: Hahahahahaha! You’re such a funny kid. *stepped from the water and helped him*
???: What are you doing here spiky head? And why is your hair yellow? …hihihihihihi…” *touched Naruto’s hair*
Naruto: SPIKY HEAD!!! YOU GOT ME SCARED OUT THERE AND NOW YOU’RE CALLING ME A SPIKY HEAD?!
???: Oh my, oh my, you have one big mouth, eh?
Naruto: YOU JUST RUINED A REFRESHING MOMENT THAT I WAS ENJOYING AND YOU STILL HAVE THE NERVE TO LAUGH AT ME?!!!
???: Oh?...What are you scared of?...Ghosts? - - hihihihihihi…
???: Do I look like a ghost to you? *pressed his cheeks with her palms*
Sooner than he could realize, Naruto found himself laughing, too. Her laugh was contagious that it felt like they have been friends for a long time.
???: Hmmmn. *smiled*
???: Are you from here, kid?
Naruto: No, why? *in thoughts* sweet smile.
???: Hmmn. *twisted her lips*
???: Nothing important really. It’s just that this place makes me feel happy and so light-hearted. I thought you were from around this area and so perhaps you might have something to tell me about this place.
Naruto: *in thoughts* Does she have jeweled stones behind those veils?
The lady wore a white outfit and her hood was covering her face down to her nose. He could only see her lips from where he is standing. The hood was transparent but not enough to give him a clear look. He could tell though that she was looking at him.
(Note: From the long version below, you can find specific details about our mysterious character.)
Naruto: Well, I am just a passerby so I’m sorry I would not be able to give you any information about this place. *walks back to the stream to get his head protector*
Naruto: But, I know someone who mi - - huh?!”
Naruto: W-what the…?! Where’s she go? *listened to his surroundings*
Naruto: Aha! *turned to his back and faced the lady* Got you!
???: Uh-huh. *nodded*
Naruto: You can’t trick a Konoha Shinobi twice, lady. *fastened his head protector and posed*
???: K-Ko-no-ha? S-Shi-no-bi? *stammered*
Naruto: Yes, that’s right! Uzumaki Naruto, the best Hokage you will ever know someday!
???: *leaned forward and looked closer on his head protector like she was inspecting it*
???: Argh! *placed fingers on her temples*
Naruto: Huh? What hap…?
Naruto stepped forward to help her but she stepped back. Naruto’s eyes caught up with the sun that he had to close them to avoid the glare. The next time he opened them, the lady was no longer there. She had vanished again. This time, he could no longer feel her presence.
Naruto: Oh, cripes! Where’d she go again!!! *quickly left, afraid*
Naruto: Hmmmn, I still have about 7 minutes to get back to the rendezvous point. I could still buy some time to go check out the village.
Naruto: Huh! Kakashi-sensei? *softly*
Kakashi: Naruto! *from behind him*
Naruto: Ahck! *surprised*
Kakashi: Hmn. Come with me. *stepped past him and back to the center*
Naruto: E-he-he-he. *puts his right hand at the back of his nape*
Kakashi’s stern looks mellowed as he realized that Naruto must have become deeply curious with him after seeing him on that morning of their departure and then now. He halted standing on the post waiting for Naruto to catch up with him.
Kakashi: Did you get anything from your patrol, Naruto?
Naruto: Nah, I met mysterious white lady.” He replied, excited and a little embarrassed.
Kakashi: *stared at him, telling him to stop joking around*
Naruto: No-o-o *shaking both his head and his hands to him* Really, Kakashi-Sensei. I’m not joking. She suddenly appeared and disappeared to me in the flare of the sun. She was asking me if I were from this place.” He continued as Kakashi’s looks told him to continue.
Kakashi: And why?
Naruto: I-I really don’t exactly know why. She said that the place seems to make her happy. Which I think is just normal, right? The stream there was cool, the breeze was fresh. I was happy myself until she showed right up to my face!
Naruto stopped talking when he noticed that Kakashi looked satisfied with his report. Time seemed to pass slowly between them as they now both stand facing the post. After a while, they decided to go back and join the others.
This one is the detailed version:
CHAPTER FOUR: A Mysterious Encounter
“Huuurrrmmm…” Grumping over Kakashi’s refusal to tell more, Naruto went off to the direction that Kakashi instructed him to go.
He jumped from one tree branch to the other, inspecting the area and thinking how nature richly blessed this village. It must have been really wonderful living underneath this lustrous forest if it were not destroyed. And to the little girl that survived, her survival and loss, continued to trigger his curiosity that he certainly felt bad about Kakashi ending the story with only a handful of details.
What powers could she have had? Is she really still alive? What happened to the Jounin that took care of her? Why did he lose her? Wasn’t he strong enough to protect her? Is he still in Konoha or has he continued to believe contrary to what the others believe and left Konoha to search for her?
Finally ending the coverage area of his Patrol, Naruto halted on a clear spring. Resting under the shade of a luscious tree, Naruto stretched his back on its trunks and lifted his neck backwards and positioned his head to rest.
In his head, he went over Kakashi’s story in the viallge and suddenly, Kakashi’s blank face flashed through his mind. It was as if he felt really bitter about how the rest of details of the story went on that he did not want to continue telling them.
Naruto’s brows crossed as Kakashi’s impassive face continued to flash before him. Later on, he realized that today was not the first time that he saw him in with that look. On that morning of their departure, he remembered him standing on his window, ignoring the cold dawn breeze, and staring endlessly at the eastern sky. Well, not that one could always see an expression in his face, but that was just totally different. It seemed to carry a totally different bitter emotion. The very same look he just had on when he stopped telling them more about the village’s sole survivor.
‘Hmm’ He said to his self. ‘I will never give up until I know. You watch out, Kakashi-Sensei! If you are not going to tell me more then, I’ll find the answers myself!’ Raising his right fists halfway up, Naruto fired up his unending determination.
After he patrolled the area, Kakashi side tripped to the village. This was the first time that he came to this village but he was sure that he would find the right spot. Trailing down from the gate to the center, he checked his calculations and sure enough he was right.
Almost to the center of the village is a circular spot, about 2 meters in diameter, ruined only by time. While this spot was left unblemished from that incident, the rest of what was left of the village had burnt-sienna marks, showing evidence of the existence of a dreadful power.
Kakashi stopped and stood in what looks like the center of the village’s square. Here stands a 15 feet tall post where Akio was believed to have been slandered in the very eyes of his helpless daughter. In a little while, Kakashi reached in his bag and took out a head protector.
The metal on the head protector had the same damage markings as the ruins in this village are. It used to have a village’s sign in it, but that could no longer be identified. The burnt-sienna markings twirled around the sign altering it completely. Kakashi took a deep breath and after looking at it for the last time, he held the head protector and fastened it to the post.
“All right! This will be cool!” Naruto untied his head protector and eagerly scooped a handful of water and washed his face. After contemplating on the story about the village’s sole survivor, he noticed the stream’s water glitter in the sun as if inviting him to come.
He dipped his hands in the cool water again and ran it through his neck. As he stretched his neck up, he saw clouds travelling with the wind, promising a cool shade once it hits the sun.
“Ahhhhh! That was refresh - - - GHAACK!!!” Naruto hardly finished up enjoying the breeze when suddenly; a lady appeared just right up to his face! He never noticed someone else was there.
Surprised with her sudden appearance, Naruto fell off his feet, rolling to the ground and ended up on rock with his butt over his head.
“Hahahahahaha!” The lady laughed hard seeing how surprised the kid was and ending up in such a position.
“You’re such a funny kid.” She stepped out from the water and walked towards him to help him up.
“What are you doing here spiky head? And why is your hair yellow? …hihihihihihi…” She giggled as she touched the tip of Naruto’s hair after helping him up.
“SPIKY HEAD!” Naruto yelled back. “YOU GOT ME SCARED OUT THERE AND NOW YOU’RE CALLING ME A SPIKY HEAD?!”
“Oh my, oh my, you have one big mouth, eh?”
“You just ruined a refreshing moment that I was enjoying and you still have the nerve to laugh at me?!!!” Naruto continued to yell back.
“Oh?...What are you scared of?...Ghosts? - - hihihihihihi” The lady just could not stop giggling no matter how hard Naruto yells back.
“Do I look like a ghost to you?” The lady moved closer and pressed his cheeks with her palm, pouting his lips, making him feel that she was warm, and real.
Sooner than he could realize, Naruto found himself laughing, too. Her laugh was contagious that it felt like they have been friends for a long time.
“Hmmmn.” The lady breathed as she tried to stop laughing and calm down. Then she smiled and sat on the rock where Naruto just ended up awhile back.
“Are you from here, kid?
“No, why?”
“Hmmn.” She twisted her lips and continued to talk. “Nothing important really. It’s just that this place makes me feel happy and so light-hearted. I thought you were from around this area and so perhaps you might have something to tell me about this place.”
Naruto thought her smile was the sweetest that he have ever seen. Everything she wore was white. A short sleeved blouse with a wide opening in the neck and a hood that trailed down to her shoulders, up to her head fall back down to her face exposing only her lips. Her hair is probably fastened tidily behind her hood as he could see them.
Her pants, cropped just below her knees had about 8 pockets in them, all filled up. She looks to be about 20, perhaps 22, but unlike other mature ladies with heeled sandals, hers were wedged and a satin band probably half an inch wide were fastened to her sandals and tied up in a crisscross up to her legs.
The hood was transparent but it not enough for him to inspect her eyes. He could tell though that she was looking at him. And Naruto could not stop staring at her. As the clouds uncovered the sun, Naruto noticed something glittered in her forehead. ‘She must be wearing some jeweled stones behind those veils’ he thought.
“Well, I am just a passerby so I’m sorry I would not be able to give you any information about this place.” Naruto answered while walking back to the stream to get his head protector.
“But, I know someone who mi - - huh?!” Naruto stopped talking when he looked back and found that the lady was gone.
“W-what the…?!” He mumbled as he picked up his head protector. But this time, he kept his senses high in case the lady was up to something. She doesn’t look dangerous though, but just in case.
“Aha!” He quickly turned to his back and faced the lady. “Got you!”
“Uh-huh.” The lady nodded and chuckled with glee. When she stopped, she let out those sweet smiles at him. She does seem pretty amused over him.
“You can’t trick a Konoha Shinobi twice, lady.” Naruto said as he proudly posed after fastening his head protector back to his forehead.
“K-Ko-no-ha? S-Shi-no-bi?” The lady repeated slowly after him. Her voice fading away as she did so.
“Yes, that’s right!” Naruto held out his hand and said “Uzumaki Naruto, the best Hokage you will ever know someday!”
The lady did not shake hands with him. Rather, she leaned forward and looked closer on his head protector like she was inspecting it.
“Argh!” She suddenly let out a soft painful cry and placed her fingers on her temples.
“Huh? What hap…?” Naruto stepped forward to help her but she stepped back. Naruto’s eyes caught up with the sun that he had to close them to avoid the glare. The next time he opened them, the lady was no longer there. She had vanished again. This time, he could no longer feel her presence.
“Oh, cripes!” As suddenly as the lady vanished, so did chills of fear crept on Naruto’s back. The mysterious lady appeared and disappeared in a blink of an eye. That was such a strange encounter!
“Hmn, I still have about 7 minutes to get back to the rendezvous point. I could still buy some time to go check out the village.” He thought.
Arriving at the village gate, Naruto saw how the village almost melted down to nothing. Exactly what Kakashi told them. Hurriedly, he went in to the village to inspect, trying to find something he doesn’t know.
‘Huh! Kakashi-sensei?’ He whispered softly to his self as he saw Kakashi in what looks to be the center spot of the village. He stopped and hid from one of the ruins. He could not really see what he was doing but he continued to observe him. As he patiently watched closely he began to think about the things that he have been discovering about him lately.
“Naruto!” Came a low hard voice from his back.
“Ahck!” Naruto jerked, surprised to see Kakashi standing from behind him. He left a shadow clone for him to observe.
“Hmn. Come with me.” Kakashi stepped past him and led Naruto back to where he was standing. He have long sensed his presence and decided to call him after fastening the head protector to the post.
“E-he-he-he.” Putting his right hand at the back of his nape, he followed Kakashi. But as he came closer, his smile faded, and his brows began to meet at the center as his eyes moved from Kakashi then to the post. Tied up to it was the old head protector that he saw him picked up from his table on that morning of their departure.
Kakashi’s stern looks mellowed as he realized that Naruto must have become deeply curious with him after seeing him on that morning of their departure and then now. He halted standing on the post waiting for Naruto to catch up with him.
“Did you get anything from your patrol, Naruto?” Kakashi asked when Naruto finally came to stand beside him.
“Nah, I met mysterious white lady.” He replied, excited and a little embarrassed.”
Kakashi turned to look at him as if telling him to stop joking around.
“No-o-o” Shaking both his head and his hands to him. “Really, Kakashi-Sensei. I’m not joking. She suddenly appeared and disappeared to me in the flare of the sun.”
“She was asking me if I were from this place.” He continued as Kakashi’s looks told him to continue.”
“And why?”
“I-I really don’t exactly know why. She said that the place seems to make her happy. Which I think is just normal, right? The stream there was cool, the breeze was fresh. I was happy myself until she showed right up to my face!”
Naruto stopped talking when he noticed that Kakashi looked satisfied with his report. Time seemed to pass slowly between them as they now both stand facing the post. After a while, they decided to go back and join the others.
“Huuurrrmmm…” Grumping over Kakashi’s refusal to tell more, Naruto went off to the direction that Kakashi instructed him to go.
He jumped from one tree branch to the other, inspecting the area and thinking how nature richly blessed this village. It must have been really wonderful living underneath this lustrous forest if it were not destroyed. And to the little girl that survived, her survival and loss, continued to trigger his curiosity that he certainly felt bad about Kakashi ending the story with only a handful of details.
What powers could she have had? Is she really still alive? What happened to the Jounin that took care of her? Why did he lose her? Wasn’t he strong enough to protect her? Is he still in Konoha or has he continued to believe contrary to what the others believe and left Konoha to search for her?
Finally ending the coverage area of his Patrol, Naruto halted on a clear spring. Resting under the shade of a luscious tree, Naruto stretched his back on its trunks and lifted his neck backwards and positioned his head to rest.
In his head, he went over Kakashi’s story in the viallge and suddenly, Kakashi’s blank face flashed through his mind. It was as if he felt really bitter about how the rest of details of the story went on that he did not want to continue telling them.
Naruto’s brows crossed as Kakashi’s impassive face continued to flash before him. Later on, he realized that today was not the first time that he saw him in with that look. On that morning of their departure, he remembered him standing on his window, ignoring the cold dawn breeze, and staring endlessly at the eastern sky. Well, not that one could always see an expression in his face, but that was just totally different. It seemed to carry a totally different bitter emotion. The very same look he just had on when he stopped telling them more about the village’s sole survivor.
‘Hmm’ He said to his self. ‘I will never give up until I know. You watch out, Kakashi-Sensei! If you are not going to tell me more then, I’ll find the answers myself!’ Raising his right fists halfway up, Naruto fired up his unending determination.
*****
After he patrolled the area, Kakashi side tripped to the village. This was the first time that he came to this village but he was sure that he would find the right spot. Trailing down from the gate to the center, he checked his calculations and sure enough he was right.
Almost to the center of the village is a circular spot, about 2 meters in diameter, ruined only by time. While this spot was left unblemished from that incident, the rest of what was left of the village had burnt-sienna marks, showing evidence of the existence of a dreadful power.
Kakashi stopped and stood in what looks like the center of the village’s square. Here stands a 15 feet tall post where Akio was believed to have been slandered in the very eyes of his helpless daughter. In a little while, Kakashi reached in his bag and took out a head protector.
The metal on the head protector had the same damage markings as the ruins in this village are. It used to have a village’s sign in it, but that could no longer be identified. The burnt-sienna markings twirled around the sign altering it completely. Kakashi took a deep breath and after looking at it for the last time, he held the head protector and fastened it to the post.
*****
“All right! This will be cool!” Naruto untied his head protector and eagerly scooped a handful of water and washed his face. After contemplating on the story about the village’s sole survivor, he noticed the stream’s water glitter in the sun as if inviting him to come.
He dipped his hands in the cool water again and ran it through his neck. As he stretched his neck up, he saw clouds travelling with the wind, promising a cool shade once it hits the sun.
“Ahhhhh! That was refresh - - - GHAACK!!!” Naruto hardly finished up enjoying the breeze when suddenly; a lady appeared just right up to his face! He never noticed someone else was there.
Surprised with her sudden appearance, Naruto fell off his feet, rolling to the ground and ended up on rock with his butt over his head.
“Hahahahahaha!” The lady laughed hard seeing how surprised the kid was and ending up in such a position.
“You’re such a funny kid.” She stepped out from the water and walked towards him to help him up.
“What are you doing here spiky head? And why is your hair yellow? …hihihihihihi…” She giggled as she touched the tip of Naruto’s hair after helping him up.
“SPIKY HEAD!” Naruto yelled back. “YOU GOT ME SCARED OUT THERE AND NOW YOU’RE CALLING ME A SPIKY HEAD?!”
“Oh my, oh my, you have one big mouth, eh?”
“You just ruined a refreshing moment that I was enjoying and you still have the nerve to laugh at me?!!!” Naruto continued to yell back.
“Oh?...What are you scared of?...Ghosts? - - hihihihihihi” The lady just could not stop giggling no matter how hard Naruto yells back.
“Do I look like a ghost to you?” The lady moved closer and pressed his cheeks with her palm, pouting his lips, making him feel that she was warm, and real.
Sooner than he could realize, Naruto found himself laughing, too. Her laugh was contagious that it felt like they have been friends for a long time.
“Hmmmn.” The lady breathed as she tried to stop laughing and calm down. Then she smiled and sat on the rock where Naruto just ended up awhile back.
“Are you from here, kid?
“No, why?”
“Hmmn.” She twisted her lips and continued to talk. “Nothing important really. It’s just that this place makes me feel happy and so light-hearted. I thought you were from around this area and so perhaps you might have something to tell me about this place.”
Naruto thought her smile was the sweetest that he have ever seen. Everything she wore was white. A short sleeved blouse with a wide opening in the neck and a hood that trailed down to her shoulders, up to her head fall back down to her face exposing only her lips. Her hair is probably fastened tidily behind her hood as he could see them.
Her pants, cropped just below her knees had about 8 pockets in them, all filled up. She looks to be about 20, perhaps 22, but unlike other mature ladies with heeled sandals, hers were wedged and a satin band probably half an inch wide were fastened to her sandals and tied up in a crisscross up to her legs.
The hood was transparent but it not enough for him to inspect her eyes. He could tell though that she was looking at him. And Naruto could not stop staring at her. As the clouds uncovered the sun, Naruto noticed something glittered in her forehead. ‘She must be wearing some jeweled stones behind those veils’ he thought.
“Well, I am just a passerby so I’m sorry I would not be able to give you any information about this place.” Naruto answered while walking back to the stream to get his head protector.
“But, I know someone who mi - - huh?!” Naruto stopped talking when he looked back and found that the lady was gone.
“W-what the…?!” He mumbled as he picked up his head protector. But this time, he kept his senses high in case the lady was up to something. She doesn’t look dangerous though, but just in case.
“Aha!” He quickly turned to his back and faced the lady. “Got you!”
“Uh-huh.” The lady nodded and chuckled with glee. When she stopped, she let out those sweet smiles at him. She does seem pretty amused over him.
“You can’t trick a Konoha Shinobi twice, lady.” Naruto said as he proudly posed after fastening his head protector back to his forehead.
“K-Ko-no-ha? S-Shi-no-bi?” The lady repeated slowly after him. Her voice fading away as she did so.
“Yes, that’s right!” Naruto held out his hand and said “Uzumaki Naruto, the best Hokage you will ever know someday!”
The lady did not shake hands with him. Rather, she leaned forward and looked closer on his head protector like she was inspecting it.
“Argh!” She suddenly let out a soft painful cry and placed her fingers on her temples.
“Huh? What hap…?” Naruto stepped forward to help her but she stepped back. Naruto’s eyes caught up with the sun that he had to close them to avoid the glare. The next time he opened them, the lady was no longer there. She had vanished again. This time, he could no longer feel her presence.
“Oh, cripes!” As suddenly as the lady vanished, so did chills of fear crept on Naruto’s back. The mysterious lady appeared and disappeared in a blink of an eye. That was such a strange encounter!
“Hmn, I still have about 7 minutes to get back to the rendezvous point. I could still buy some time to go check out the village.” He thought.
Arriving at the village gate, Naruto saw how the village almost melted down to nothing. Exactly what Kakashi told them. Hurriedly, he went in to the village to inspect, trying to find something he doesn’t know.
‘Huh! Kakashi-sensei?’ He whispered softly to his self as he saw Kakashi in what looks to be the center spot of the village. He stopped and hid from one of the ruins. He could not really see what he was doing but he continued to observe him. As he patiently watched closely he began to think about the things that he have been discovering about him lately.
“Naruto!” Came a low hard voice from his back.
“Ahck!” Naruto jerked, surprised to see Kakashi standing from behind him. He left a shadow clone for him to observe.
“Hmn. Come with me.” Kakashi stepped past him and led Naruto back to where he was standing. He have long sensed his presence and decided to call him after fastening the head protector to the post.
“E-he-he-he.” Putting his right hand at the back of his nape, he followed Kakashi. But as he came closer, his smile faded, and his brows began to meet at the center as his eyes moved from Kakashi then to the post. Tied up to it was the old head protector that he saw him picked up from his table on that morning of their departure.
Kakashi’s stern looks mellowed as he realized that Naruto must have become deeply curious with him after seeing him on that morning of their departure and then now. He halted standing on the post waiting for Naruto to catch up with him.
“Did you get anything from your patrol, Naruto?” Kakashi asked when Naruto finally came to stand beside him.
“Nah, I met mysterious white lady.” He replied, excited and a little embarrassed.”
Kakashi turned to look at him as if telling him to stop joking around.
“No-o-o” Shaking both his head and his hands to him. “Really, Kakashi-Sensei. I’m not joking. She suddenly appeared and disappeared to me in the flare of the sun.”
“She was asking me if I were from this place.” He continued as Kakashi’s looks told him to continue.”
“And why?”
“I-I really don’t exactly know why. She said that the place seems to make her happy. Which I think is just normal, right? The stream there was cool, the breeze was fresh. I was happy myself until she showed right up to my face!”
Naruto stopped talking when he noticed that Kakashi looked satisfied with his report. Time seemed to pass slowly between them as they now both stand facing the post. After a while, they decided to go back and join the others.
END OF CHAPTER 4
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