Chapitre 21: Chapter 20 : Low Profile...Yeh Right(2)
After the movie, an action film that Naruto found a little boring, the two teens decided to go and get some tea at their usual spot. He even got Raven to try some of his green tea after a little persuasion, and she ended up ordering one for herself.
They spent a lot of time talking, though it wasn't long before Raven realised that she was doing most of the talking while Naruto asked questions and, after about half an hour she had had enough of him dodging her questions.
"You do realise that at some point you will have to tell me about yourself right?"
Raising an eyebrow at her as he took a sip from his cup, Naruto chuckled quietly and smile.
"That's where you're wrong Raven-chan, I am more then confident in my ability to dodge any and all questions that I don't want to answer, it's both a gift and a curse really."
Rolling her eyes, the grey skinned teen looked away from her blonde date and tried to hide her face by taking a sip from her own tea, making no effort at all to hide the fact that she was upset by his unwillingness to tell her about himself.
After a few minutes passed without either of them saying anything Naruto scratched the back of his head and, letting out a sigh of his own, leaned forward slightly to get Raven's attention.
"Three questions, I'll answer anything you want."
After looking into his eyes for a moment to be sure he was serious, the purple haired teen thought for a moment about what she wanted to ask him. If she was honest there were a lot of things she wanted to know about the blonde; his life before he moved to Jump city, the fact hat he collected some of the rarest and most dangerous books on the planet, the full story of how he met Gaara. But then something else popped into her head. A word, nothing more then a single word that she had only heard once but for some reason had stuck itself to the back of her mind and stayed hidden right up until this moment. Before Raven even knew what she was saying, the question left her lips.
"What is a Jinchuriki?"
Whatever reaction he was expecting, this wasn't it. Naruto's whole body went tense, his eyes widened, he stopped breathing and his skin started to go a little pale. After several minutes passed and the blonde still hadn't moved Raven was getting worried and was about to ask if he was ok when he spoke, his voice slightly strained.
"Ask something else."
This just caused the grey skinned teen to frown.
"You said anything-"
"-please...I just can't...please ask something else."
If his first reaction didn't shock her the way he just spoke did, his voice actually quivered and his eyes were staring at her in desperation, silently begging her to ask something, anything else. She didn't stand a chance.
Letting out a small sigh, Raven took anther sip of her tea and tried not to think about the look that had just been on his face.
"Fine...then tell me about your home village, you said before that it was called Konoha but never went into much detail."
After taking a moment to relax now that she had changed her question to something he felt more comfortable answering, though not by much, Naruto nodded his head and told her about his home village.
"Konohagakue no Sato, of in English the Village Hidden in the Leaves, it's a pretty big village, though no where near as big as Jump city. It's surrounded about twenty miles of forest, which is the reason for its name, and has a population of about 4,000. The village itself is heavily militarised and is run by a council made up of a mixture of civilians, soldiers and clan heads, with the one in charge being the Hokage, the leader of the military."
Raising an eyebrow at the oddly dull explanation of his home, and the fact that it seemed to be run by a dictatorship, Raven decided to push for more information.
"What were the people like?"
She didn't miss the dark look that crossed Naruto's face.
"They were bitter fools that couldn't tell the difference between a cage and the animal inside it."
Getting a confused look on her face at the way he talked about the people of his village, and the odd image he used to describe them, the purple haired girl let it drop for the moment and they once again fell into silence. When she did ask anymore questions after a few minutes had passed Naruto decided to try and get the conversation going again.
"You still have one question you know-"
"Two"
Raising one of his eyebrows at her, the blonde teen shook his head, a small smile stretching across his face.
"I don't think so, you've ask two so far, I said three."
"You made me drop the first question, so I think I should get one back, unless you want to answer it?"
Naruto's smile turned into a grin, he could help it.
"Fair enough, so what do you want to know now?"
Thinking for a moment, Raven sat back in her seat, a slightly smug look on her face at having outwitted him.
"I think I'll save them, never know when I might need them."
After nodding his head in agreement, the two started talking normally again for the rest of the night and about an hour later left the tea shop and started making their way down the street towards the store. They were both in a good mood, small smiles on their aces as they chatted about different books they had read, they had just reached the door to his shop.
Then it happened again, for the second time that night Raven watched as Naruto's whole body froze, his eyes fixed on something and a small gasp escaped his throat. Turning to look at what he was staring at, the dark Titan frowned. Hanging from the door handle was a dark blue cloth, a mental plate attacked to it with a strange mark engraved into it that looked like some kind of leaf and a long, deep scratch running straight through it. Without thinking she reached out to take it only to stop when Naruto grabbed her wrist.
This was when she noticed the difference between now and when he froze before, instead of acting nervous, he was angry. He was shaking in barely controlled rage, his eyes alight and glaring at the metal plate as if he was trying to burn a hole through it with his gaze. Then as suddenly as it came all the anger drained from his face, slowly being replaced with...nothing. His face was completely blank as he let go of her wrist before quickly grabbing the cloth and stuffing it in his pocket.
He turned to look at her and for a moment it was the same blank look, but again it disappeared almost instantly as if it was never their to begin with and was replace with his usual small smile, it actually worried Raven how he was so easily able to switch between emotions.
"I'm sorry Raven-chan but something's come up and I'll have to call it a night."
Looking at the blonde with worried expression on her face, Raven couldn't help but send a quick glance to the pocket that held the cloth.
"Naruto, is someone threatening you, is that what that cloth means?"
Not meeting her eye, the whiskered teen just turned to his door to unlock it, before looking back over his shoulder with a smile.
"It's nothing you need to worry about Raven-chan; I hope to see you tomorrow at the usual time."
Without waiting for a response Naruto quickly went inside, closing the door behind him, leaving a worried Raven to sink into the shadows and disappear. The moment she was gone, Naruto stepped back out into the street, locked the door and started walking. He walked until he came to a dark ally, the light provided by the street lights not reaching more then ten feet own the narrow space between the two buildings and stopped when he was half way.
Without turning to look as two shadowed figures appeared behind him from the way he came, the blond ex-ninja spoke, his face and voice once again completely empty.
"You've got a lot of balls to come here alone...or is it just stupidity, overconfidence maybe, you know it put a real downer on my date right? Though I must admit that I didn't think you'd keep my old head band for all these years...Sasuke"
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