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(破損た商品): Damaged Goods #11.
Topic Started: Feb 22 2012, 12:10 AM (19 Views)
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Naruto Uzumaki ate silently as he finished up his bowl of ramen. After another morning of Tsunade refusing to give him yet another mission he succumbed to the wonders of Ichiraku’s ramen to lift his spirits.

Team Kakashi had no scheduled practice today so he had the rest of the day free. And oh how Naruto hated those days. He spent most of those days alone locked in his apartment. They only served as a constant reminder of how he existed in a world that never wanted him.

The blonde didn’t want to go through that monotony again. He pushed the now empty bowl away as he lowered himself to rest his right cheek on the table. The whiskered teen closed his eyes as he thought about his options.

Letting out a defeated sigh he felt discouraged when his brain drew a blank. ‘Well whatever, it’s not like I expected to come up with anything.’ Yet a small smile tugged Naruto’s lips when he opened his eyes and saw a familiar figure heading his way. ‘Maybe I never had to after all.’

Like an answer to his prayers, the boy known as Kiba Inuzuka strode into his life. ‘All I ever needed was for Dog-Breath to do the thinking for me.’ Naruto took out the money needed to pay for his meal and lifted himself up as he waited for the tattooed teen to greet him.

“Oi Naruto, what you up too?”

“Not much, how about you? I mean besides stalking me and all.”

Kiba took a step back and shielded his face with one arm jokingly as if Naruto had thrown something at him. “As if! With my super sense of smell I don’t need to follow you around to know where you are. I just come find you whenever I want to that’s all!”

“Aha!” the blond crossed his arms and nodded twice before pointing out the facts. “So you admit you were looking for me.”

Kiba’s expression clearly screamed busted. Naruto couldn’t help but to chuckle.

“Yeah well I’m perfectly in my right ya know!” Kiba exclaimed as he tried to defend himself. “I just returned from a 4-day mission and now I have three days off for rest. But doing nothing ain’t really my style so I thought I graze you with my presence. It’s not like you have anything better to do!”

“Ha! I could think up thousand other things I rather do than hang with you but you don’t see me complaining.”

That was just a ruse to be honest. In reality the jinchuriki couldn’t think of a single thing he rather do than to have the brunet’s company for the remainder of the day and then some. But that didn’t mean Kiba had to know that. Naruto still had some pride left you know. Thankfully the Inuzuka saw through his charade and wasn’t offended by the comment. So they smiled at each other.

“Yeah whatever you say. So… walk with me?”

Naruto shrugged “Alright, I guess it won’t kill me. You don’t have fleas do you?”

“Ha ha Fox-boy, very funny.” Replied Kiba sarcastically.

The blonde couldn’t believe that he was actually joking around with the brunet. ‘When did this happen?’ he asked himself. He looked around knowing that something must be out of place with the world when he noticed someone missing.

“Where’s the mutt?” he asked suddenly.

“Akamaru? Well…” The dog had actually refused to come when Kiba told him they were going to look for Naruto but the brunet couldn’t really tell the blond that now could he. “…he’s getting a haircut.” was Kiba’s lame cover up but Naruto seemed to believe it.

They spent well over an hour strolling around the village making small talk. They were ninjas who were used to walking for long straight hours so they didn’t really feel exhausted yet. It went on like this until Kiba reached the subject about dreams for the future. The jinchuriki instantly went gloom at the topic.

The dark eyed teen was scandalized to find that the blue eyed boy gave up on his dream of becoming Hokage.

“What do you mean you no longer want to be Hokage?! That was your main goal ever since I met you!!!”

“It is exactly what you heard. Being Hokage doesn’t matter to me anymore!” snarled Naruto at Kiba because he didn’t like to be reminded of his past. Then he lowered his head staring down at his feet before muttering “It was a stupid dream to begin with.”

Naruto knew that it didn’t matter how qualified he might be for the position because no one would voluntarily give it to a jinchuriki. Even if they did no one would ever acknowledge him for it. Yet Kiba wasn’t having any of it.

“But why? I don’t get it! You always worked so hard for it. Look at you, although I hate to admit it you probably are a better shinobi than I am. You’re like a role model or something! You proved to everyone that with hard work and by believing in yourself you can do anything. So why stop now?!”

The blond rolled his eyes with incredulity. “Yeah sure it all sounds peachy and sweat when you say it like that but look at me. I’m always overlooked, nobody cares if I live or not and I didn’t even make chunnin the normal way! And it’s not like you believe I could be Hokage anyways.”

Kiba had opened his mouth ready to counter but shut it when Naruto said that last part. The brunet took a moment to figure out what ever gave the whiskered teen that idea and then remembered their fight in the preliminary round of the chunnin exams.

So instead of simply asking forgiveness for what he said back then, the tattooed teen thought of a better way to make his point. He sprinted far ahead of the blond before turning around raising a hand signaling Naruto to stay back. The blond stopped walking curious to know what Kiba was up to.

The brunet, who now stood in the middle of a busy intersection, inhaled a big breath of air and opened his mouth to speak. Then he suddenly closed it without saying a word and began to look around for something.

Naruto had no clue of what the brunet was doing until he saw Kiba move to pick up a random crate and put it down where he was standing before. Then the Inuzuka proceeded to climb up the wooden crate.

Kiba was now standing 5 feet higher than he did before shamelessly catching the attention of everyone in all four cardinal points. He took in the surrounding scenery before smirking at the buzz he was surely going to cause. He silently thanked the Lord for not making him easily embarrassed.

The brunet placed his right hand on his heart and lifted the left one up in the air as if he was making a pledge. ‘Here goes nothing!’

“Oi everyone! Hiya, I’m Kiba Inuzuka for those of you who didn’t already know.” Always the crowd pleaser he stopped momentarily to wink at a group of girls who where pooling closer to him. “I, with all of you as my witnesses, would like to do something I never done before and formally retract my words from almost four years ago.”

Kiba moved his left hand and pointed to the whiskered teen effectively driving the whole crowd’s attention to him. “Naruto Uzumaki I do believe that you’ll be Hokage and I’ll be the first one to congratulate you when you do!”

Pleased with his little stunt, the tattooed teen got down from the crate, rushed to Naruto, and pulled him away from the busy traffic circle not caring much to see the reactions he got from the people who saw his display.

Once they got far enough Kiba let go of Naruto’s sleeve. Cheerfully crossing his arms behind his head the brunet turned to the blond and asked “So, you were saying?”

“That you’re shameless.” Naruto stated in a matter-of-fact way yet none of his previous sour mood was present.

“Still don’t wanna be Hokage?”

“Hmm” the jinchuriki tapped his index finger on his chin repetitively as he mulled it over. “Don’t know but I guess I can’t completely shoot it down either. After all I did promise Neji to remove his slave seal and being Hokage would make it a hell lot easier to do so.”

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Somewhere on a mission away from the Hidden Leaf Village Neji got the sudden urge to kiss someone but when he looked to his side he completely lost the feeling as Lee was the only person beside him. Poor TenTen chose an extremely bad time to go to the bathroom

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As the two chunnins kept strolling around the village Kiba stretched his body. Feeling brave he let one arm come down to rest on Naruto’s shoulders. A quickly annoyed Naruto questioned Kiba’s latest action to which the Inuzuka just shrugged saying he was just doing what felt right.

The blue eyed teen, not able to think up a snappy comeback for what the dark eyed teen just said, decided not to fuss over it and stared forward. It was then that he noticed Ino traversing the area and pointed it out to Kiba.

The brunet groaned when he saw her. “Damn it she’s fucking everywhere!” Unfortunately he bellowed his remark too loudly and Ino heard. “Oh shit, she spotted us.”

Ino, who for the first time ever since this story started was minding her own business delivering flowers to the locals, redirected her trajectory towards the two chunnins. There was no chance in hell she was going to let Kiba’s poor disregard towards her persona go unattended. And having Naruto beside him brought up a whole new windows of opportunities.

“My my my, aren’t you the cutest couple I ever seen?”

“Cut the crap Ino.”

Seeing how quickly the brunet jumped on the defensive only helped in making a sly grin appear on Ino’s features. Brushing her bang away with the hand not holding a bouquet of flowers, Ino’s uncovered eyes fixed themselves on the arm Kiba placed over Naruto’s shoulders. Oh she definitely wasn’t going to leave until she had her fun.

“What ever are you talking about Dog-boy? I was just making was a simple observation.” Letting her hair bang fall back into place she brought her free hand to her mouth and giggled. “A fine pair indeed, I mean with your arm on him and everything I-”

“What of it?” he practically barked to keep her from saying more. It’s not that he didn’t like her. In reality he found her to be pleasant company to be alone with. But the moment a third entered the picture he’d get really anxious for the fear of the blonde kunoichi dropping hints about his sexuality. Kinda like she was doing now.

“Teehee touchy aren’t we?”

Kiba ran a rough hand down his face as he tried to calm himself down. “Can we just drop it?” he asked pleadingly.

“Drop what?” questioned Naruto speaking up for the first time in this word exchange.

“Nothing” was Kiba’s all too quick reply.

Not satisfied with the response he looked at Ino for answers. Something didn’t add up. He couldn’t find logic in the way Kiba was reacting to everything Ino said.

“Oh nothing much, I’m just pointing out how touchy feely Kiba is with you…”

“We’re just friends!” the brunet interjected.

“…and how he never acted like this with any of his other friends.” finished Ino overlooking Kiba’s brief interruption.

A growling sound could be heard coming deep inside the Inuzuka’s throat menacingly. “Ino…”

“Alright alright already keep your pants on I know when I’m not wanted, sheesh!” Yet even as she complained Ino’s pleased smile never left her face. She winked at Naruto before going on her merry way after giving Kiba a lesson in tough love.

‘Hope that teaches you to always be nice Dog-boy’ she snickered inwardly. Then her smile dropped a second later. ‘Crap, I hope I didn’t overdo it. I have the tendency of let things get a little out of control. Oh well I’ll find out by tomorrow anyways.’

Meanwhile our two leaf chunnins stood still, separated from each other in awkward silence. With uncertainty it was Naruto who engaged the other into conversation.

“Um Kiba…is there something you want to share with me? Something you forgot to tell me about?”

“…Well I no… um, well you see- ahhh!” The brunet held his head in frustration ‘keep it together man; be honest, now’s your chance to show the world you aren’t ashamed’

Letting his shoulders drop Kiba spoke up again. “Um well yes, there is something I haven’t told any of my friends yet.”

“Except for Ino.” Naruto corrected.

“Well she kinda figured it out on her own to be honest with you… I’m umm- well I think I might be… gay.”

A painful silence fell between the two boys and Kiba had to stash both his hands in his front pockets to stop them from shaking nervously. He determinedly looked at everywhere but Naruto.

The blond blinked twice before his brain was finally able to register the brunet’s confession. “…oh.” was all he was capable of muttering as he temporarily lost the ability to form words. Seconds that seemed like hours slowly ticked by before Naruto lowered his head and excused himself beginning to walk away.

Understandably Kiba panicked “W-Wait that’s it?!” Suddenly furious with disbelief in an effort to hide his heartbreak he quickly got in Naruto’s face. “You’re gonna cut me off just like that because of it? I said that I’m not sure if I am! I thought-”

“Kiba stop, it has nothing to do with that. I don’t mind what your orientation is. It’s okay if you are. I just really need some time alone, so later.”

Never gazing up to look at Kiba in the eyes, Naruto made his retreat. The brunet on the other hand stayed motionless as he watched the boy of his dreams fade into the distance. The gears in his head had stopped working and for the longest time he just stood there. The emotional turmoil threatened to make him sick and he was scared that he would break if he moved.

Then a ray of hope lightened up his face. ‘Wait a minute, Naruto just said that he didn’t care that I was gay didn’t he? So that must mean that he accepted me doesn’t it. Naruto accepted, the real me… wow I did it!’

Feeling a huge weight lifted off of his shoulders, an overly brightened Inuzuka brought both hands around his mouth in a makeshift megaphone and hollered for the whole world to hear. “YAHOOO! I’M YOUR FACE AKAMARU!!!”

With his dog in mind he quickly made a mad dash to his house unable to wait for a chance to rub the news in his partner face.

Making it to his home in record time he spotted Akamaru yawning in front of the TV and immediately went to hug him. The dog let out a startled yipped when his master tightly grabbed his neck.

“Akamaru boy I did it! I finally told Naruto I was gay and guess what? He didn’t reject me!” Kiba cheered jumping up and down prompting Akamaru to do the same since he was gripping his head. It all stopped when he heard the sound of a plate breaking in the floor. Alarmed he looked up to see his sister Hana on the doorway.

Hana was busy doing the dishes when she heard her little brother come in. With the plate she was currently cleaning on hand she made her way to the family room to greet him and smiled fondly when she saw him hugging Akamaru. She was about to make her presence known when Kiba open his mouth and said what he said to his dog making her drop the object from her hands were it shattered on the floor.

The siblings lock eyes with each other paralyzed by this new development.

“W-What did you say?” asked Hana’s trembling voice.

“Sis! I-I-I forget what you heard alright?!” came Kiba’s panicked reply.

“Is it true???”

“…yes.”

More silence drew out as they stared at each other with fearful eyes; both thinking about the same thing but none brave enough to say until Hana couldn’t hold it anymore.

“Mom is going to kill you.”

“Yeah well let her try! I’m not scared of her!”

“Kiba!”

“…”

The younger on the siblings turned his face away refusing to meet his sister’s worried eyes. He new his mom was an issue. The boy was perfectly aware of how much of a homophobic his mother was and he didn’t want to deal with it.

Hana watched as her brother fought to stand his ground refusing to take back his words. Then she noticed how his body kept shivering and it was then that she comprehended Kiba was just trying to put up a strong front. It was obvious that he was terrified of his mother and she wasn’t helping his situation.

She felt a pang of guilt for what she was putting her brother through and ran to him. Tears ran down her eyes as she held Kiba in a headlock.

“You idiot” she murmured while she ruffled his hair. “You know I’m not even going to give her the chance to touch my little brother. You should already know I’m always on your side.”

“Hanaaaaa” He whined as he tried without much effort to escape the headlock but he couldn’t help to smile. Hana had accepted him and that was all that mattered.

Most kids look up to their parents and were influenced by them but Kiba was a different story. Hana has always been the one looking out for him when he was younger and it was only her opinion the one he valued. Who cared if his whole clan turned their backs on him? As long as he had his sister he would be okay.

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Hours later as the Sun descended and the Moon took over, a whiskered blond stood in front of his broken mirror lost in nostalgic tears. Ever since he made it home he’s being chastising himself for ever lowering his barriers to let Kiba in. ‘What was I thinking?’

He remembered when he questioned Shino about Kiba in their last mission together.

“Are you suggesting that Kiba just wants to be my friend?” was what Naruto had asked.

“Not quite, he already has friends like previously mentioned.” was Shino ever so precise answer.

Then he remembered what Ino had said this afternoon. “He never acted like this with any of his other friends”

‘Of course’ Naruto thought ‘It all makes sense now’

The blond always thought it strange that Kiba wanted all of the sudden to be friends with him and now he figured out why. ‘Kiba never wanted to be my friend to begin with. He was just using me.’

In Naruto’s mind this is how it all panned out. Apparently one day Kiba discovered he might be gay and decided to explore it. Yet he was not going to do it with any of his friends so he chose the outcast as his experiment because there were fewer chances of people finding out because no one minded the jinchuriki.

A dark chuckle escaped Naruto’s lips at his realization. ‘But of course it was for that; no one could ever love a demon.’ All the whiskered teen was but a tool the Inuzuka was using to figure himself out and Naruto hated himself for ever thinking otherwise. At least that was what made sense to the blond. He never once considered that the brunet might actually be hopelessly in love with him.

As he walked to his bed the picture of Team 7 caught his eye. He lifted it up and felt empty as he studied the four faces in the photograph. Naruto sometimes wished he would have died when Sasuke tried to kill him when he abandoned the village. Then his life would have had meaning because it would have given his friend the power he needed to avenge his clan.

But it was all pointless now. Itachi was dead and without Naruto’s help. The blue eyed teen placed the picture face down on the nightstand not wanting to look at it ever again. He lay down on his mattress and lost himself to his thoughts again.

‘I’m a tool for others to play around with and that’s all I’m ever going to be. It was foolish for me to think I was ever going to change it.’ Naruto wiped away his tears with the back of his hand as his face lost all trace of emotion. ‘Then so be it. I won’t fight it anymore’
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