Chapter 9
1 week later - Yuna's POV
I head to the gates of the Leaf Village and I pace outside for 10 minutes while the guards watch amused and finally, I get my courage and I go up but then back away again and that happens for about half an hour before I walk up and I resist the urge to run away.
"Who are you?" The guard form 4 to 5 years ago asks me.
"Yuna, Yuna Lin." I say to him with a nervous smile and he looks at me shocked, but let's me in.
I head to the Hokage building and I bite my lip slightly and I pace slightly outside the building for about 5 minutes befire I head up to the office and I knock.
"Come in."
I slowly open the door and I peer around the side and I see Kakashi there.
"Yuna?" He asks shocked and I walk in, seeing as nobody else is here.
"I heard you became Hokage." I say to him with a nervous smile and he chuckles at my awkwardness.
"You've been here before." Kakashi says to me amused.
"Yeah, but I was an enemy last time." I say to him and he nods. "I came to say congratulations on becoming Hokage." I say to him with a smile.
"You went out of your comfort zone to come say that?" Kakashi asks amused.
"Yes, have a problem?" I ask him and someone knocks on the door and I freeze and I hide behind the corner of the couch making Kakashi chuckle amused.
"Come in." Kakashi says to whoever knocked and Naruto walks in with Sakura and Sai.
I crouch lower and I see Kakashi smile amused.
"Kakashi-Sensei, we finished our mission, though we saw someone." Sakura says to him and I sink lower.
"I'm not sure, but I think it was Yuna." Sai says bluntly and Kakashi points to me and my jaw gapes open in betrayal.
They look at me and their eyes widen in shock.
"What are you doing here?" Naruto asks me and I sulk.
"I wanted to avoid other contact, thanks a lot Kakashi, your so mean." I say and he chuckles amused as I get up. "I came to congradulate Kakashi on becoming Hokage, I only just heard of this from Sasuke who appeared at my house out of who knows where a week ago." I say and Kakashi nods.
"Your about 2 months late Yuna, your even later than Kakashi-Sensei." Naruto says to me and I puff my cheek out in a pout.
"Blame Sasuke." I say as I cross my arms over my chest.
"Yuna, did you come all the way here just for that?" Sakura asks me and I sweat drop.
"Isn't that what people do?" I ask confused and Sakura and Naruto fall.
"Another Sai." Naruto groans and I tilt my head confused.
"Did I say something wrong?" I ask as I see Kakashi laughing quietly at this.
"You don't know human behavior either." Sai says to me.
"I read a book." I say as I pull it out, showing him.
"You don't learn by books!" Naruto and Sakura say to me crying as if they have been in this situation before.
"Yuna, I think you need to be around people more." Kakashi says to me and I inch away from him.
"How about no? People I don't know make me uncomfortable, I don't where they've been or what I could have possibly done to them." I say and Sai nods.
"Follow us." Sakura says grabbing my wrist and starts pulling me out with Naruto behind me.
"Can I have my book back first?" I ask.
"NO!" Sakura and Naruto yell at me.
"Yuna, just follow them, they know what they're doing." Kakashi says to me with a closed eyed smile. "Sai, go acompany her, you know from experience that you were like her but in a slightly different situation." Kakashi says to Sai who nods and follows us.
I get dragged into a crowded place and I visibly shrink as peoples eyes land on me.
"This is Yuna Lin! She's new to people since she was imprisoned most of her life." Naruto announces and they all look at me and I flush in embarrassment and I wave slightly.
"Naruto, you've embarrassed her." Sakura says to him. "We need to get her used to attention gradually." Sakura says to him.
"I think I'm just gonna go home now, I'm very uncomfortable." I say nervously as I try backing away, but Sakura takes me to her group of girlfriends and Sai and Naruto follow.
"Ah, Naruto-Kun." A girl with pale eyes and dark purple hair says as she hides with a blush.
"Alright girls, this is Yuna Lin, she isn't used to civilization due to being a prisoner of Orochimaru for her entire life." Sakura says to them and I recognize Tenten.
"I know her." I say pointing to Tenten and Sakura looks at me surprised.
"Oh yeah, your the woman who wasn't in a village uniform during the war." Tenten says to me. "By the way, your katana skills are awesome." Tenten says to me and I smile nervously.
"Thank you, your weapon skills are comendable, if it was a weapon fight between us, you'd scare me to death." I say to her and she smiles proudly.
"Thank you." Tenten says to me.
"Alright Yuna, this is Ino Yamanaka and Hinata Hyuga." Sakura says introducing me to the other two girls.
"We should all go shopping!" The Ino girl says excitedly.
"I'm, good, I have already been in a crowded area today." I say with a nervous sweat drop.
"Nonsense." Ino says to me grinning and starts dragging me with her. "First we'll stop at my flower shop, a girl needs a flower in her hair always to make her look pretty, then we head to a cloths store and get you some new clothes, those are so last generation and" She goes on and on and on, until she mentions a spa. "Then we'll go to a spa and get a massage and facials and you seriously need a pedicure, look at these nails." Ino says to me and I practically freeze at the thought of people I don't know touching me.
"Ino, your scaring the poor girl." Tenten says to her as she walks next to me.
"She looks old, she needs a make over." Ino says to her and I sulk slightly.
"I'm only 21." I say and Sai walks next to me.
"You get used to them always doing stuff like this." Sai says to me.
"I'm gonna die." I conclude and Sakura and Ino laugh. "I can already imagine what Kakashi would do if I ran now and hid in his office, he'd sell me out immediately and make me go on this ridiculous thing anyways." I say and Sai nods with a smile.
"How do you know Kakashi-Sensei anyways?" Sakura asks me and I sweat drop.
"You remember your first Chunin Exams, right? With the Orochimaru incident? I was assigned as Kabuto and his teams Sensei by Orochimaru for that exam, so, when I got here,
I went to the Hokage office and while I was talking, Kakashi out of nowhere enters the room, interrupting me as I was talking, I had a nasty temper back them because I was cooped up most of the time and it didn't help I was dealing with Kabuto previously before coming, so, as you can imagine, I was thinking of killing him in his sleep for that and then Lord Third decides to make him my freaking tour guide and then during that entire time before the attack, he was either training Sasuke or stalking me and I was either trying to meditate to calm my nerves and temper, or watching him." I say and they nod.
"Killing him in his sleep for interrupting you." Sai says to me and I nod.
"I told you, I had a nasty temper." I say to him.
"Had, does that mean its gone?" Ino asks and I shake my head.
"It still lies dorment inside, but since I haven't met any cocky pricks like Kabuto ever since the war ended, it calmed down a lot, so now I'm just a ball of nerves." I say with a nervous sweat drop.
"Your a year older than Temari right? 'Cause if I remember, you looked around 17 when you came to the Leaf the first time and you are about 4 years older than us, right?" Sakura asks me.
"Temari? You mean Gaaras older sister?" I ask and Sakura nods. "Yeah, she was around 15 when I first met her when I was an envoy to meet with the Sand about the attack, I was walking through the village before I was attacked by Gaara himself because my Chakra set off the One Tails, she stopped him and apologized, she was around 16 during the exams, she should be around 20 now." I say and she nods.
"And we're here." Ino says showing us a flower shop and we walk in, as I do, the flowers perk up immensely and Ino watches amazed. "Are you doing that?" Ino asks me and I smile nervously.
"I'm from the Lin clan, the Forest Clan, I can't help it." I say as the flowers that weren't open, open.
"Ino, who did you bring with you that made the flowers perk up so quickly? I've been trying for a while now to get them that way." I'm guessing Ino's mother asks her.
"This is Yuna Lin." Ino says to her with a smile.
She looks at me with a look that says touch my daughter and I'll kill you, I sweat drop and I smile nervously.
"You were said to have caused most of the damage to the Leaf when it was my daughters first Chunin Exams." She says at last.
And there it is, what I was afraid of.
"I really am sorry about that, I didn't want to." I say to her with a nervous smile.
"Then why did you?" She asks me.
"Orders, I wasn't aloud to disobey or I would have been killed by my own curse mark." I say to her and she looks at me with a stern look.
This is exactly what I wanted to avoid.
"This is good, she's facing her fears." Sakura says in the background.
"A Lin then? You look nothing like one. I should have known this would have happened." The woman says annoyed.
"I'm gonna go home now, back to my cottage, away from civilization, in my comfort zone." I say nervously as I back up.
"Not a chance, you can't hide forever." Sakura says to me sternly.
"I'm gonna die." I say and Sai nods.
"Probably." Sai says to me.
"That doesn't help." I say and he nods.
"Noted." Sai says to me.
"Alright, flowers, which one would look best in your hair?" Ino says looking around.
The other girls block all entrances while Naruto and Sai watch me closely.
I feel like a prisoner again.
"Ah ha, this one." Ino says picking a purple hibiscus.
"Ino." Her Mother says to her.
"I know, but she doesn't know how to act in society, we're helping her." Ino says to her with a shrug as she fixes it in my hair.
"She should know how." Her Mother says to her annoyed.
"She came all the way from her house in the middle of nowhere, to congratulate Kakashi-Sensei on becoming Hokage, that's it. She thought it was normal." Naruto says to her and she looks at me.
"I read a book and it said to congratulate someone in person on achieving something great." I say and Naruto and Sakura fall.
"BOOKS DON'T COUNT!" They yell at me.
"They don't?" I ask confused as they get up.
"I had to learn from experience what emotions were again, at first I read books too." Sai says to me with a smile.
"Huh, so, experience gains knowledge, instead of getting knowledge freely and without physical or mental harm, by books." I say and Sai nods.
"She's a lost cause." Ino's mother says and Ino rolls her eyes.
"Alright, clothes shopping!" Ino says excitedly.
"Is this what people do for fun?" I ask confused as I get dragged out by Ino.
"Shopping is part of it, we also eat and go to the spa and hangout out and go to the hot springs." Ino says to me.
"About the spa, I'm not comfortable with people I don't know touching me." I say with a nervous sweat drop but she ignores it.
"Alright, let's see, what should we dress you in?" Ino asks and she Sakura go looking around the shops.
"I hope they choose nothing revealing." I say and Tenten nods.
"They'll most likely do it." Tenten says to me and I sulk.
"Why was I dragged into this? Literally." I ask and Tenten shrugs.
"They want you to be social I guess." Tenten says to me and I smile nervously.
Sakura comes back and takes me to a dressing room and shoves me some clothes and pushes me in.
I change into a white shirt with a loose green tie, white pants with green strings at the bottom, white socks and white shoes.
"I feel ridiculous." I say as I walk out.
"You look perfect." Sakura says to me and I sweat drop. "Now change back so I can pay for them and then you can change into them again." Sakura says to me.
"I can pay for them myself." I say to her.
"Nonsense, you have learn what people being nice to you is like." Sakura says to me and pushes me back in and I change back into my green dress with white leggings and my black ninja sandals.
I give the clothes to her, well, she takes them from me quickly and heads to the cash register and about 3 minutes later, she is infront of me again and has me change and I do.
I follow her back to the others and Ino squeals and I smile nervously.
"What is she wearing?" Tenten asks.
"I tried sticking to her previous color scheme of white and green, and this came out." Sakura says to them.
"I don't-"
"Food!" Naruto says grinning, cutting me off.
"Alright, alright, let's all go get something to eat." Sakura says half annoyed and I see Hinata's face blush brighter as she walks next to Naruto.
I get taken to a ramen place where Naruto practically ordered for us all.
We eat and then it starts turning sunset.
"Aww man, we couldn't finish doing our girl stuff in time today." Sakura says bummed out.
I take the chance while the girls are distracted to quietly slip onto the roof and run.
"Wha? Where did she go?" I hear the girls ask looking for me.
I head to the Hokage office and I knock.
"Come in." I hear Kakashi say on the other side of the door.
I walk in and Kakashi looks up. "Those girls, don't know the meaning of personal space, or the meaning of, listen to when people speak to you, I'm going home, its late and I don't plan on getting caught by them any time soon." I sayband Kakashi chuckles amused.
"Rough day then?" Kakashi asks me amused.
"Try terrifying." I say to him and he nods with a chuckle and I head to the gates of the Leaf Village and I head home at a fast pace.
I get back and I go inside and change back into my longsleeve green dress with my white apron and my white leggings and I relax for a while.
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