Chapter 23

Everyone turned to look for Naruto's reaction and smiles simultaneously appeared on their faces when they saw the child smiling softly, her eyes glittering with happiness. Temari suddenly sprung up and bounced to the TV. She ejected the CD before sliding in a new one. "We made this one, Naru." Temari said, smirking at the teen before returning to her seat.
"Is it embarrassing?" Naruto asked, receiving a shrug as a reply causing her to sigh.
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"Ok. Ok. It's recording. Today, we are here at the ice skating place... Uh... I forgot the official name, who cares! Temari is doing her homework and Naru- hey! Where is she?" Kankuro exclaimed, looking around, causing the camera to shake slightly. Naruto slowly appeared from behind him. "Are you looking for me?" Her voice calm and monotonous as she leaned forward to whisper into his ear. Kankuro got startled by the sudden appearance, causing him to jump and the camera flew out of his hands but Naruto caught it. "You should take better care of your camera." Naruto tsked as she palmed the camera back to Kankuro. The professional photographer, of course, strives on having all their equipment in the best of best shape and quality.
"Weren't you going to go in the ring?"
"You make it sound like I'm going to be fighting in a battle ring instead of an ice skating ring." Naruto said as she turned and headed back down towards the door that led into the ice ring. "You coming?"
"Sure! Give me a sec." Later Kankuro joined Naruto inside the ice ring, she had been turning circles and circles in the same spot whilst waiting for Kankuro to put on his skates. "Stop. Geez kid, are you trying to scramble your brain?" Kankuro asked and she slowed to a stop, staring at Kankuro before looking around.
"Did Gaara sleep?"
"... Surprisingly he did yesterday after coming back home from your place. What did you do?" Kankuro asked, curious as the camera panned towards the red head that was walking up to Temari. "Can't tell you. It's a secret for me and him to know and you to never find out."
"What? Hey! That doesn't make sense! Get back here!" Kankuro exclaimed as he swiped at Naruto but she gracefully glided out of reach, and she rapidly started picking up speed which forced Kankuro to stand in one area to avoid collision with Naruto. The music that was playing got a song with a nice beat and Naruto started skating to it, figure skating.
((Everyone stared in awe at the blond who looked so graceful and so elegant. She executed each jump and each spin and every single movement perfectly. Her posture was perfect as she raised her leg above her head. Naruto tried to hide the blush forming on her cheeks as she didn't really like people watching her perform.))
After a while she slowed down and skated normally around the ring, waiting for Kankuro to catch up with her. "Naru! What is the symbol for Magnesium?" Temari called out, causing Naruto to turn to her and narrowly avoided colliding with Kankuro who is now showing a middle finger at his sister.
"Magneto!"
"Say what???? Did you just relate an element to a comic character?"
"Yes."
"What the hell is the symbol then?"
"It's pretty obvious, Mg."
"Sodium?" Temari asked after writing down the first one and reading the next element.
"Batman!"
"That doesn't help." Temari deadpanned.
"It does. Think about the song for it." Naruto said, as she skated to a part of the ring where she and Kankuro hadn't touch and the ice was nice and smooth. Temari was mouthing the lyrics to herself until her face lit up. "NA!"
"Correct."
"What about... Hydrogen?"
"That ones really obvious Temari. H."
"Nooo!!! The super hero you would name it after."
"Hulk. Now I'm sure you could have searched up the periodic table." Kankuro turned the camera back onto Naruto. The ice she was previously standing on had some sort of shape to it and he realized it was a rose.
"Where's your boyfriend?" Temari asked when she was packing up her homework.
"I don't have one."
"Then why does duck butt follow you around?" The way Temari described her so called boyfriend  made Naruto distracted, causing her to crash into the wall. "Are you describing Sasuke?" Naruto asked incredulous as she leaned on the wall to get up.
"Only that Uchiha has that hairstyle! I bet he hairsprayed it."
"No he did not. It's really soft." Naruto said and then she paused when she realized what she just said.
"How do you know that?" Naruto turned bright red and she turned away before she pulled up her hoodie and was pressed into the wall by her bodyguard. She buried her face into her bodyguard's chest as the door burst open and a group of girls came in. The girls were all screaming the name of the Uchiha they had been previously talking about. Once Naruto was sure the girls left, her bodyguard released her and she skated to the door and walked up the stairs towards the rows of seats. Holding her hand out for something on the ground. A pale hand came up to grab hers and Sasuke was pulled up from the ground. "Has he been here the whole time?" Kankuro asked.
"No. He came seconds before the girls did." Naruto said as she pulled on her shoes and returned skates into her bag.
"The incredible synchronisation with your bodyguard though! You guys didn't even give freaking signals and you both know what to do! You guys are telepathic!" Temari exclaimed to Naruto, completely ignoring Sasuke.
"No. We just have lots of practice avoid my poor sasu's fangirls." Naruto said, nudging the dark haired boy who rolled his eyes at Naruto's playfulness.
"You guys should date."
"No way. This teme is too arrogant for me."
"Che. Who would date a dobe like you?" Sasuke shot back and they both glared at each other but deep down inside those were just affectionate nicknames for their bestfriend.
"For your information, She had a long line of boys waiting to date her." Temari snapped.
"No I don't. Lets go... Sasuke-Kun." Naruto said, mocking his fangirls squealing of his name.

"Naruto is in the hospital... I kinda expected that. She is always saving people, only luck kept her alive. This time no one was there to save her. But she isn't in a critical condition ... If you don't consider her missing from the ICU unit bad! She just waltz out without anyone noticing. She must be a ninja." Temari said. Naruto came into view behind her. "Did you just call me a ninja?" Naruto's voice beside her ear freaked her out and she was about to scream when Naruto covered her mouth. "Scream in here and I'll snap your neck." Naruto joked, releasing her hand from Temari's mouth.
"You are a f*ing ninja. I'm sure. Where did you come from?"
"The pharmacy?" Naruto's tone wasn't a question but a statement that sounded like she was amused.
"... You're suppose to be in bed. In the intense care unit. You aren't suppose to even be awake."
"Well, I am and I am out of here." Naruto said waving a piece of paper and limped away on crutches.
"You got hit by a truck."
"I was in a car, it's not a bad as being hit whilst being a pedestrian." Naruto pointed out.
"You're so weird."
"So I heard from teme." Naruto said, waving her off.
"So you're a ninja."
"No."
"Fine! Where are you rushing to?"
"To catch a plane."
"To?" Temari questioned.
"To go to my date with the Daimyo's son. Where do you think? Of course I'm going to meet my parents." Naruto said rolling her eyes.

"I jinxed myself Temari..." Naruto whined when she walked into the living room. Naruto plonked onto the couch and kept quiet so the Sabaku siblings didn't ask any questions, knowing she would speak later. She walked away awhile later, looking bored from watching the terminator that Kankuro was watching. She jumped into the camera view and mouthed 'I'll be back!' In sync with the Terminator. Kankuro laughed at Naruto who grinned and sat back down with a tub of ice cream in hand. "What made you say you jinxed yourself?"
"Remember I got hit by the truck? That day I joked about going on a date with the Daimyo's son. Guess what, now I actually have to." Naruto grumbled. The siblings shot out from their seats in shock. Naruto sighed at their reaction. Temari had recovered from her shock and ran up the stairs. "I don't fit in your dresses Temari! So keep those revealing outfits to yourself!" Naruto shouted up the stairs towards Temari. "Who asked you to be so tiny?!" Temari shouted from her room, not giving up on finding a dress for Naruto.
"I'm not tiny!"
"You have to buy the smallest size they have or you have to buy from kids section." Kankuro pointed out.
"I am a kid!"
"You're 17 and you already had your heart broken."
"I didn't even have a boyfriend." Naruto snapped, turning her icy gaze to scowled at her ice cream.
"Then what does duck butt count as?!"
"Sasuke is just my best friend." Naruto grumbled.
"But you hid in the room and ran yourself rag with work. Admit it, he broke your heart."
"He did not break my heart. He is just an arrogant a*hole that has a 9 meter pole shoved up his a*."
"But you like him." Kankuro said, wriggling his eyebrows suggestively.
"I do not!" Naruto denied.
"But you said he has nice hair and nice skin."
"That was one time! Temari liked my tan, I wish I was pale! Geez." Naruto grumbled, stabbing the ice cream with her spoon. Kankuro's laugh could be heard and Gaara was smirking at the TV.
((Sasuke looked at Naruto who refused to meet his gaze, making him chuckle slightly. Temari gave her a thumbs up from her position on the ground. Itachi's friends had started laughing when they heard her description of Sasuke. ))

"So how was the function?" Gaara asked, sitting beside Naruto. Her face twitched into a smile and a frown at the same time. "It was okay... I almost got engaged." Naruto said, nonchalantly pointing out one of the highlight of the function.
"How?!" Temari's screech rang out as she shot forward and gripped Naruto's shoulders to shake her.
"Madara's son proposed, we met once or twice whilst I was at work."
"Who's Mada- the Uchiha?!" Temari exclaimed in shock.
"I declined him and then match made him with this girl that I think would be perfect for him. They seem pretty happy together."
"What's with you and match making? Since when did you become the Cupid?"
"Hey! I helped you and Shikamaru become a thing! You too Gaara and Kankuro! You guys can't escape. No laughing you guys. I helped you guys become a thing with your partners." Naruto pointed out, pointing at everyone in the room including her boydguards. "If I recall correctly, you even got married to the girl introduced to you." Naruto said, wriggling her finger at one of her bodyguard. "I am the match making expert, you can't deny that!"
"But you're not in a relationship though." Temari said.
"What does duck butt count as?" Kankuro asked Temari.
"Stop bringing Sasuke into the conversation everytime!"

"Whoa! That's so cool!" Kankuro exclaimed when he entered the room and Naruto looked like she was making a card levitate. The card dropped and she flicked her wrist to make the card sail through the air and towards Kankuro who froze, the card whizzed past and almost nicked his face. "Dangerous!"
"You don't say. I could probably slit your throat with that." Naruto joked, picking up another card from her deck.

"Seriously though, she actually did it." Naruto walked into the room, frowning as she paused at the door. "Who did what?"
"You. You hypnotised this guy into telling you somethings." Her bodyguard said, turning to her from the Sabaku siblings. Naruto's lips twitched into a smirk. "Ah. The power I hold." Naruto said waving her hand. She walked to Temari and she started hypnotising her with the rest watching in awe. "I want you to forget the number 5." Naruto commanded and she held up a finger and Temari told her how many she was holding up and she slowly increased the number of fingers and when she got to the fifth finger, Temari said 6 instead of 5. So Naruto ended up with 11 fingers instead of 10. Then she made Temari forget the number 7 as while so now Naruto's finger count increased to 12. When she snapped Temari out of the hypnosis, she leaned back into her chair to watch the audiences reaction. "Oh my god." Temari whispered.
"What did it feel like?" Kankuro asked.
"It's like, I know there is 10 fingers but When I counted Naru's fingers, it ended up being 11 and I was so confused! It felt so weird!" Temari said, waving her arm around. "Soceress!"
"I'm not Elsa."
"But people call you ice queen!" Temari reasoned, making Naruto sigh, not wishing to argue any further.
((Everyone in the room turned to Naruto who smirked at them a little, making them gulp at what she could possibly make them do if she ever hypnotised them. ))

"I really wanna burn that b*." Temari grumbled. Naruto was walking up to Temari from behind. "Did you just call me a b*?" Temari jumped and slapped a hand over her mouth quickly to stop herself from screaming, Naruto hated people who screamed in places like the hospital. Naruto had paint on her hands and her hair was thrown up into a messy bun because a ponytail swings around and gets in her way. There was a pencil that was shoved through her bun, holding the pencil there. "Why did you want to burn me?" Naruto questioned.
"You are so mean to yourself. You have been working non stop." Naruto raised an eyebrow before gesturing for Temari to follow. Naruto bought Temari to one of the rooms in the hospital that she has been working on. "Whoa..." The room was painted with Disney characters all over and little quotes. The room was for the stereotypically for girls. Naruto then moved to another room for the boys and then she folded back the panels separating the two rooms to reveal the middle being a common ground for both sides to slowly blend into each other. The tables had black and white images printed on papers, colour pencils were in a container in the middle of the table. There was a book shelve filled with books.
"The kids are going to be so happy. This place is a dangerous and scary place, the kids should grow up knowing there are still hope and that simple things if appreciated is enough to make people happy." Naruto said before making Temari follow her to another room a little further down the hallway. This section of the hospital was new and Naruto was the one who suggested to make it a entertainment area. This room had a few superheroes on the walls and there was a tv with a shelve full of movies, the next was filled with movie quotes and small pictures from the movies painted on, a tv was in the room too along with a shelve of movies. It was the chick flicks and romance, crying yet satisfying movies. There was another for book lovers. The walls were barely decorated, just with a nice border and a few marker laid on the table nearby. There were shelve after shelves of books and all the floor were carpet with a few couches, tables and chairs in each room. This room was for book lovers and the wall was for them to write their favourite quotes. There was a huge stack of A5 books that had the 'please read!' Sign above it. It was a book with a few quotes and they can write down their own short story ( fiction or nonfiction), they can chose to be anonymous or write a simple name. "This is amazing!" Temari squealed and Naruto gave a thumbs up to the camera.

"Stop confusing me with nicknames!"
"So what do wanna be called?!"
"First people call me a ninja, now a sorceress, next you call me a princess and a queen. So what the hell am i?!" Naruto exclaimed, crossing her arms at the three siblings and her bodyguards.
"She has an official nickname doesn't she?. Gaara asked.
"That's in the UFC world! This is different." Temari protested, gesturing slightly.
"But Death Shadow sounds so cool." Kankuro exclaimed.
"I don't even know why they call me Death Shadow. I just merely move fast, strike fast and melt into shadows." Naruto said.
"That's the role of an assassin! You should be called assassin instead. "
"What if I actually am an assassin?" Naruto asked, a smirk on her lips as she eyed all of them. "Then everyone should fear you. You literally move and act like one."
"So nickname!" Naruto said, directing them back on topic.
"You should just stick to Death shadow."
"But everyone is going to know death shadow is a scrawny little kid that is gender confused because death shadow fights in both male and female fights."
"You aren't scrawny! If this nice muscles are considered scrawny, Temari's slim figure is obesity!" Kankuro reasoned.
"Death shadow is a mouthful. Let's just stick with my name alright?" Naruto said, with a sigh mumbling something that sounded like 'troublesome'.

The video ended with pictures of Naruto with them all, half of them were with Sasuke and the other half was with the Sabaku siblings.

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