Naruto: Winds and Changes

"Hey, wake up. You'll catch a cold if you sleep out here." Haku said.

Naruto stirred, stifling a groan he opened his eyes. And the first thing he saw was…

"Tenshi?" he asked as he saw a beautiful heart-shaped face with a set of chocolate brown eyes. His voice slightly groggy and his sleep addled mind was coming to what he obviously thought was the correct conclusion.

Haku blushed at being called an angel. "I'm afraid not. If I was, you would have to be dead in order for us to meet."

"Naruto!"

Naruto turned around and grinned as he saw Haku walk into the clearing. "Hey Haku-chan! How are you… doing?" He blinked when he noticed that her chest was decidedly… larger then last time.

Haku, noticing where he was looking blushed and, despite being fully clothed covered her chest. "You know, it's kind of embarrassing when you look at me like that.

"Huh?" Naruto looked at her face before his eyes widened as his face took on the hue of a tomato. "Oh no! I was just…I was surprised because well…because of yesterday and all! And I! erm…"

Haku giggled as Narutogot completely flustered. "It's ok, I suppose it would be surprising. I usually wear chest bindings to hide them."

"Oh…" Naruto said in realization. "So…how about we start again?" he asked sheepishly. "How are you doing?"

"I know one thing you can give me." Haku said with a small blush.

Naruto tilted his head to the side quizzically as he looked at her. "Really? What's th-"

Naruto was cut off and his eyes widened in shock when he felt a pair of warm, soft lips press against his own. His entire body froze in place, andit felt like someone had lit him up with the Amaterasu flames.

When she noticed Naruto was not responding she pulled back and gave him a pout. "You know when someone kisses you, your supposed to kiss back."

"I…well I…that is to say we…and you…kiss…and uh…" Naruto tried, the red on his face increasing several shades.

Haku sighed, even she knew how to kiss. "Looks like this is something we're going to need to work on." With that she claimed his mouth with her own, and even after Naruto started to respond their lips had remained locked.

He remembered all of the times they had shared before the battle on the bridge. However unlike most times none of these memories brought any pain, and he smiled as he remembered the good times he had with Haku. He felt an odd sense of relief sweep through him, almost like a gentle breeze or a calming rain that was cleansing his soul.

Maybe there was something to all that talk about cleansing the soul by speaking about your past, though he doubted it meant telling the whole world about it. But hey, if you're going to do something you might as well go all the right? Why do anything half-assed, when you can go big.

Naruto shook the thoughts and feelings away as grinned at the crowd and held up an arm to wave at everyone cheering for him. As he waved he became surrounded by a swirl of leaves and disappeared, using Shunshin to appear in the fighter's box. When he did the first thing he saw was Yugito who had come up to him with a soft smile.

"You did an amazing job out there Naruto-kun," She leaned in and planted a small kiss on his cheek, making him blush red enough to rival Hinata.

No one noticed the glares coming from two of the other contestants.

Though Naruto did wonder where the killing intent that had just appeared was coming from.

"Hehehe, t-thanks Yugi-chan," Naruto said as turned away from her, not even able to look in her direction. His reaction caused Yugito smirk.

"Naruto-kun, who is this?"

Naruto turned to see Tenten giving him one of those sweet 'if I don't get an answer from you right now I'm gonna stick you full of kunai' smiles.

"Uhh… this is Yugi-chan," Naruto said, sweating nervously from the bun haired girls smile. "I met her during the one month hiatus and we sort of hit it off."

Tenten's eyes twitched but she held her smile in place, "Oh, so she's a friend?" she stressed the word friend.

"That's right," Naruto said, not understanding what her tone meant, "…is something wrong?"

"Nope, nothing's wrong!" Tenten chirped. She turned to Yugito and gave her a large smile as she held out her hand, "I'm Tenten! Naruto's good friend."

Yugito noticed the inflection in her voice and unlike Naruto who was still fairly oblivious, knew what it meant.

So this girl wants to stake her claim on him huh? Good luck with that, Yugito doubted that anyone could truly claim Naruto. Given what she knew of the boy, and what she had just learned from his speech, she doubted that Naruto would want a steady relationship anytime soon.

Still that was no reason to be rude to one of his friends, so she gave the girl a smile and shook her hand, "Nii Yugito, it's a pleasure to meet you Tenten-san."

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