Naruto RPG: Rise of the New Generation

[Nytefall]

Tamekaze sat in his workshop working on Kyūketsuki, he was just finishing reinforcing the joints on the puppet when his alarm went off. Looking over to it he looked at the time. He’d need to leave soon. Looking at the scroll he had made earlier he looked over at Kyūketsuki lying on the desk checking that all the joints and body parts were connected and working he attached Chakra strings to them, giving Kyūketsuki a quick test to make sure everything was working he made a hand sign causing Kyūketsuki to disappear stored inside the scroll. Grabbing what was left of the sandwich he had been eating he finished what was left and dumping the plate into the sink. Grabbing his ninja gear and the two scrolls containing his puppets he placed them into a pouch on his waist. Checking to make sure he had everything he quickly patted himself down turning on the spot slowly trying to remember everything he had.

Sure that he had everything he grabbed his keys and headed out the door. Tamekaze had literally nothing to do. He had no idea who his new sensei would be; all he could really do is wait until someone told him. He walked around to the training area. Tamekaze smiled, always enjoyed a chance to test out his puppets. Hopefully the technique he had been working on would follow through but he didn't have very high hopes for it. He just needed to control the amount of chakra going through Kanbu without completely obliterating him, the very thought of his puppets being damaged did not thrill him in any way what so ever. Walking to almost the middle of the training area he decided that today was the day he tested out his new technique, if Kanbu was destroyed than it would mean building him again. No not re-building him. Perfecting him. Tamekaze smiled at the idea of adding more to Kanbu.

[xHolyLightningx]

Big Sis to the rescue! Hold on Lilia!

Kaname Souchi

Kaname was surprised when Lilia just charged like that, but she had created an opening and now she was in trouble, she had to protect Lilia! She couldn't lose her as well. Kaname would quickly make three shadow clones, One shadow clone began tunneling underground with Hiding Like a Mole Technique, while the real Kaname and two of her clones charged toward Katar, who was too focused on Lilia to notice apparently. Kaname began to ready her Chakra Scalpel, as did her clones, if she was careful enough then she could grab him by surprise. The two clones charged directly for Katar, while the real Kaname ran to Lilia, the real Kaname moved in front of the shock wave just in time to stop it with her Scalpel. The two clones appeared either side of Katar, both aiming their Scalpel's towards his arms, if they hit him then they would weaken or even sever his arms, which would make his weapon nearly useless to him. While the clones did that job, the real Kaname began to pull Lilia away from the fray, where it would be safe enough to begin to treat her wounds. It seemed she was Katar's main target, if that was the case then the opponent shouldn't bother her, and she still had a plan to deal with Katar, he seemed stupid enough to take the bait anyway. Kaname began using her Mystical Palm Technique on Lilia, treating the worst of her burns and injuries, luckily nothing too serious. "It's okay Lilia, you were super brave, leave it to Onee-Chan now, she'll make everything okay." Kaname said to the younger girl, in a soft tone while she worked on healing her injuries.

Mayu Akemi

Paperwork was so boring, Mayu had no idea how other leaders coped, it was certainly not a fun activity but luckily for her she was often able to unload half of her work onto her assistant. Slowly, she had began to give him more responsibility over village affairs, he was a loyal boy. She had to admit that first she doubted his motive, but it had been a year since he gave himself that mark and he had yet to betray her. Mayu looked up from her desk as a bright light appeared in her room, she knew what that meant, of course she was right. None other than her assistant himself, with a stack of completed papers, she offered him a smile to show her gratitude, after listening to him say Mayu-Sama you think she would've gotten used to it, but it still filled her with a slightly warm feeling every time. "Oh the letter, of course. Today is a big day in the village, the new teams are forming and of course, you are on one of them. I've given you to Eiji Nazomeku, perhaps you've heard of him as Wireless instead, regardless he's a powerful shinobi within the village and I trust you will show him that you are worthy of both his and my respect. Your team will be meeting at training field B very soon." Mayu paused for a minute before speaking again. "Anyway enough formal talk for now, I wanted to give you something to celebrate your first day on a team." Mayu reached into her desk and pulled out a small box and opened it, showing the young man what was inside. It was a small charm, attached to some read ring, with the symbol for 'Courage' written on it. "I had this when I was your age, of course now I've out grown it, however I hoped it would bring you luck and courage on your first day. I remember my mother giving it to me like it was yesterday-" Mayu stopped for a moment at the memory of her mother, she never had told her young assistant that story of her mothers passing, perhaps one day she would. "A-anyway, I think it's appropriate for you to have it now. I hope you like it." she offered him a very sincere and pride filled smile. She was never shown this kind of encouragement as a girl, she hoped by showing it to all of the young genin in the village that she would help them grow to be powerful shinobi. Of course Yuusuke was her favorite, they say a village leader shouldn't have favorites, but Mayu didn't really care, she would continue to watch the young samurai until her last breath.

[Arkay]

Natsuki Hikaru

Natsuki calmly turned his head toward Midori before blinking several times, trying to comprehend what he just heard. He shook his head coming out of the daze to order his thoughts. "Your mother has been notified and she visited last night. It would take a very long time to learn and I think you would want something else. My name is Natsuki Hikaru and I'm aware that its a girl's name. I'm you and Deidara's sensei." Natsuki took a dep breath. "The two missing ninja got away after myself and Deidara got knocked out. As for his lip, he fell over while placing those beautiful flowers on your bed side." Natsuki turned his head back to Deidara with an innocent pout on his face. "He was so worried about you...." Natsuki spoke as fast as he could, trying to mimic Midori's unique speech pattern. He hoped answering her questions wouldn't be so difficult later on. He was happy that she was up and about, but to what appeared to be her normal self. He also hoped that Deidara would be in the mood for a little joke. Perhaps a little humor would speed up his recovery.

[Little Alice]

Lilia looked with terror in her eyes for an moment, but then bite her lower lip as she looked in the distance what she could see of the fight between Zakito and Dragon.

Then she thought about. Uncle Z and Kaname were nearby! Why would she show fear? No, showing fear was no option!

The little girl then snorted at Katar's direction and was about to annoy him with some insults, but was suddenly surprised. The shockwave was coming her way and she was about to scream, but wouldn't. Even in death she wouldn't give in the stupid feeling of fear! She just closed her eyes and hoped it wouldn't hurt. That would really be annoying if it would still going to be hurt. But nothing came. No pain or relieve of anything. Was this death?
Lilia opened slowly her eyes and was shocked.''Onee-chan?'' Escaped the mouth of the little girl as tears were forming in her eyes. She wanted to rise up, but was soon carried away by Kaname and the little girl quickly hold herself to the one that was her idol.

When Kaname was treating her wounds, Lilia started to cry in all of a sudden.
''Sorry Onee-chan! I did something stupid! So sorry!'' She looked at the ground and felt stupid. She had managed to cause several burning wounds to Katar and had surprised him with the Transformation Jutsu, to make her left eye look like a Sharingan eye, but in the end she had brought her team in danger. What kind of kunoichi would do that? A weakling would!

Clenching her fists she glanced at Katar, then at the fight of Zakito and Dragon. While she wasn't sure if Uncle Z was doing fine, she had faith in him. He was maybe the imposter Hokage, but he was Uncle Z! He was awesome enough to beat anybody, right? Hell yeah! Then she looked back at Kaname and said sorry again with a very soft voice, as she felt ashamed of her mistake. ''I am sorry, Onee-chan. I won't do such a rash thing anymore, promised.''

[yoshua171]

Kaiku, Xinsai

Shivering slightly as Hiron apologized and then openly expressed himself, it was an odd sight really. After all it was exceedingly rare for Hiron-sensei to truly express anything besides a slight frown, seriousness, or annoyance. The fact that he was proud of them made him smile though and nodding his head Xinsai looked to Ikuei and Mia deciding he ought apologize for tricking them. "Um...Mia, Ikuei, I'm sorry that I didn't tell you about th-the tattoos..." focusing he moved the black markings, each singular upon his teammate's bodies, and had them move onto their hands. "I just thought it'd be easier to communicate through them, and also a good way to make sure neither of you get killed, ya know?" It seemed like the usually serious Xinsai was feeling a bit sheepish and then he turned and glancing at Hiron once he dashed off, taking the lead for the trip back home. Xinsai didn't like putting himself out there for ridicule, he'd received far too much of that during his younger years. Though, he had to admit things were different now, he was different, but the world was changing a bit too fast for him. With Zakito likely dead or...rogue? Sighing he again banished the thoughts of those damned brothers from his mind and made sure to slow down a bit sot that the others could catch up.

Nazomeku, Eiji - Wireless

Looking a bit angry as his friend, Eiji, said he'd never set foot in the second alphabet training field, he looked away and scowled, seeming to block out the rest of what his friend said. Trying to take another bit of the Eggs he sighed with an Exasperated appearance to his body language. Flinching slightly he would suddenly Exclaim "TOO MANY 'E's!!" Standing to his feet in a single movement he snatched the letter from Eiji's hand, seeming to twitch again, and then smiled at Samaki kindly "you look lovely today, it was nice to see you," glancing at Eiji he gave him a glare and then stalked out the front door, that was right, the front door...the door he NEVER used. As he slammed the house's wooden appendage behind him he stopped, the rain gone, and glanced about for a moment before smiling broadly to himself and listening briefly at the door. His friend was bound to be thrown off by his alleged 'mood swing' as it was not often that the Nazomeku was seen in anything even mediocrely close to anger. Shivering with slight disgust at the thought of such an abrasive emotion, he decided to instead take out 10 threads and to hang them from the door so that when they excited their house they'd be slapped in the face gently by the threads. Chuckling he went as far as lining them with explosive tags and crossing out a single character so as to make them entirely useless in function. It was a prank he hadn't pulled on Eiji yet....

It was one that he knew Eiji might recognize, but for others he often did not 'diffuse' the tags. Laughing under his breath he skipped off, at one point jumping off a wall and onto the top of a building where he began to run on. He'd continue like this, switching from ground to building as his fancy took him, and greeting or throwing things at people he came across. It was a good day, he thought.

[TheDerangedDoc]

Mona Kaguya - Amegakure

It was indeed an early morning, and a rather hard one for the inhabitants of Mona's home. The man of the house would procrastinate on his bed with little desire to go to work while the elder woman was barely awakening, referring to a certain morning ritual to stimulate one's senses. No not coffee, a hot shower. Indeed, Mona's mum was fond of showers, but no one cares about any of this. The protagonist of this situation would be grinning, her body entirely covered with bandages right up to her neck level, only to have a few more wrapped on her head, slightly covering her right eye. Muna was ready for this day, this day which would likely be no different from any other, but she was ready anyway. As she'd bend over, in the middle of her living room, she'd set her hand over her neck, only to have her flesh rip open in that specific spot. Her scapula would lock themselves against each other and later become mobile as a new pair would immediately reform within her back. Her different ribs would then also attach themselves to the scapula duo and lock her spine onto them as well. When this would be complete, the set of bones would emerge from the self inflicted wound, Mona grabbing the end of the skeletal masterpiece in order to remove the rest manually. With one powerful pull, she'd fully remove the chainsaw like set of bones and whip it downwards. Once the weapon was removed from her body, the wound would close and her body would look as it would at any given time. She was happy, as she smirked in quirky satisfaction.

Upon setting the large and lethal weapon over her shoulders, she'd proceed to kicking her front door open in attempt to look bad ass. As she'd keep her overly heroic pose on her front yard, she'd turn her head to realize the worst. She hurt her front door. She'd jump into despair and shiver as she felt total remorse from her act. "W-what have I done... I'm such a fool..." she'd walk over to the wooden door and kneel before it. Gently, she'd slide her hand over it, caressing it in a way as a tear would fall from her left eye. "My poor baby, I'll fix you up!" she'd then say with a more positive tone, closing her eyes with a cheerful smile. Her bandages would wrap a portion of the door as if she were covering some boo boo. Once this was done, she'd deliver the poor thing a little kiss before waving it goodbye as she'd part from the training field. She was still tormented by the thought that she may have broken her friendship with that door... She'd bite her nail, hoping that one day, she could help more doors in the world.

When arriving at a certain part of town, where the air was cold and the rain was always so strong and frigid. Luckily her bandages could withstand that and even use it to defend her against fire. Hoping from metallic pipes to steel buildings, she was having trouble coordinating herself through this part of town, maybe it was the neon or the simple fact that she always managed to get lost here for no apparent reason. Either way, she wouldn't take too long to spot her sensei approaching the training grounds she was requested to meet up at. Upon remarking the typical behavior of her sensei, she couldn't help but find the need to cut him open and find out what made him tick, and probably make a figuring out of his liver and kidneys. She'd smile at the thought, causing her Raiton chakra to fuel her chainsaw she'd be carrying over her shoulders and it turn this'll activate her desire for blood. In order to amplify this euphoric feeling, she'd bite her thumb and suckle on her own blood, now literally tasting her desires. The chainsaw was starting to roar rather strongly as she'd land on the same street as Soru, chainsaw now held by both her hands. She'd take a few steps forward to keep a given distance between them, the sound of the chainsaw now noticeable from their distance. Whenever Soru would react to this, she'd lift her chainsaw in the air with one arm and charge at him. "SENSEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIII SHINNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA MWAYAYAYAYAYATOHOHOHOHYEEHEHEHAHAHAHA!!!" she'd flail her chainsaw in the air as she'd sprint toward the older shinobi. She was all pumped, ready to finally cut him up and swim in his remains. The whole time she'd grimace in such a fashion that even an emperor would shit their pants.

[Maria127]

Mia Inuzuka


Mia looked at Xinsai and said [color]"Well I cleaned his wounds so they shouldn't get infected...[/color] Mia's clone that was by Ikuei watched him as he walked towards Hiron Sensei, wondering what he was doing so she eventually followed him.


When Xinsai asked her to stand close to him because his Jutsu took a lot of concentration she raised an eyebrow but did as she was told and watched as he performed the Jutsu and how some of the minor wounds on Hiron Sensei began to heal. Mia couldn't tell if the other more serious wounds were healing because they were covered in bandages but she assumed that those wounds were being healed too. She was quiet surprised that Xinsai could do that with his shadow technique although she know that a ninjutsu like that would defiantly have its drawbacks, so when he stumbled back she instantly moved forward to catch him but it soon became apparent that her help was not needed.


The real Mia and her clone slowly let go of Hiron Sensei as he said he was fine. She doubted it though, even she would have trouble moving after all those wounds. Mia would catch Hiron Sensei should he fall. Mia released her shadow clones and as a result felt a little tired. When she heard Hiron Sensei apologise it made her shudder so she said "you know what I was right, your creepy Hon Sensei.."

Mia then heard Xinsai apologise for tricking her and Ikuei and she blinked a few times befor answering. "it's okay Xinsai...."

[Roran Hawkins]

Samaki yawned and shudderd her shoulders in anticipation of the long day ahead. "I'll see you guys later." She said, before leaving the rather small house. She walked towards the trainingfields and felt how the rain soaked her, and enjoyed the feeling. She loved rain. When she arrived at the trainingfields she saw quite a lot of azctivity there, definately more than usual on such a normal drowsy day. Today was the day where the new genin students would be awarded their, or cursed with their new jounin sensei, and she happened to be a jounin sensei from today onwards. Sighing she sat down in the middle of the grassy field, looking rather strange amidst the steel industrialised village all around it. She had always enjoyed the city because of its many shadows, created by the dark metal and the shadows it casted over the streets. However she definately thought that nothing bested pure nature. Being more of an assassin and a warrior than areal jutsu user, she often relied on stealth to get close and move in for the kill rather than overwhelming jutsu or anything else, so any place where she could blend in with the terrain was one she loved. She looked at the paper containing the names of her students and their known abilities, and shrugged, storing it away in her pockets. I'll see what crap they throw at me...

[Mr Nim]

Deidara Yuhiko

Deidara turned his head to see Midori walk in, looking as though she felt great. Straight afterwards her mouth started attacking, like it seemed it would do for a lot more times in the future. He was about to answer her when Natsuki answered instead, trying to mimic her speed at talking and doing a decent job at it.

After Natsuki finished explaining what he saw Deidara thought for a second if he should tell her what he did. Natsuki already told Midori about how he got his bleeding lip, so he figured he might as well tell her. "Well, after the missing-nin left i woke up, with my leg already being in a bad condition. I noticed you were passed out, so i walked to you, picked you up and carried you here. I'm just glad i managed to walk all the way because my leg felt like it could break any moment. When i got here i placed you in a chair, told the medical ninja to help you and then i passed out from the pain that came from my leg. Walking with an almost broken leg is no picnic, i can tell you that." He said. He hoped Midori won't start calling him her hero because he was sure that if it was the other way around Midori would do the same. At least, he hoped she would do the same.

"I haven't seen Gakuko, and i have no idea where she could be." Deidara answered her question. He did wonder where she is, and if she even visited Midori.

[Hillan]

Uzumaki Aeiroh and Yumi Hasegawa:
Probably the most awkward date in history.
A collab between Hillan and Lesli.

Yumi rolled with her eyes and had her arms crossed as she was leaning against the wall. She just stood in a hall of the hospital where she had brought Iroh, because she thought it would be a kind of good deed, but she was bothered that she now had to wait. The doctor even had said something that was bothering her, but she wouldn't bring it up with anybody.

Waiting for Iroh to come out of the room she would just wait for him and then decide what to do. Kanajiro probably wasn't aware that she had brought him away, but for now she wasn't really in the mood to give a fuck about anything.

Iroh had been taken in for medical treatment. Yumi had briefly explained the situation for the doctors, whom just sighed at his wounds. What was really wrong with the boy, why on earth would he detonate an explosive point-blank on himself? There had been 3 doctors, whom had been using their various skills to patch Iroh up, it hadn't been that tricky, and thanks to his own vitality, he was set to make a full recovery within a week.

Iroh woke up less than an hour later, he sat up in his medical bay, as he looked for his jacket, as he was currently only wearing his fairly thorn up pants. The doctors had been forced to cut his T-shirt open. Gladly however, Iroh's dogtags with the Leaf-Symbol on them had been intact. He had bandages on his entire lower torso, over his ribs. It hurt for him to move, but yet, he got out of the bed, putting his naked foot onto the stone floor, as he grabbed his jacket from the side of the bed, putting his arms into the sleeves of the jacket, as he stumbled out through the door, looking down the hall. "Hey, who do I have to murder to get me some burgers up here?!" Iroh exclaimed, as he flinched from pain, when he suddenly saw Yumi. I hadn't even seen her Iroh thought to himself.

" Oh, hi Yumi " Iroh said, as he put on a smile.

Yumi sighed as she looked at him. Slowly getting of the wall she frowned and looked at him with the frown on her face. She paused before she would ask him if he would fine. ''So, your head is still one piece...Good, wanted to know if I had to arrange the funeral already.'' She slowly turned and then spoke over her shoulder to him. ''If you want I am going to get something to eat, but you don't have to come with me.''

Yumi walked in the direction of the exit of the hospital as she was thinking what she was going to eat. Ramen? No, since the duel she had with Kensuke she wasn't that fond of Ramen anymore. Junkfood? Pppff, not really. Letting out a loud sigh she just walked in the direction of the exit and would see what she was going to eat.


Iroh looked over at Yumi, staring at her as she walked towards the exit, when he let out a sigh. What the heck. He thought, as he began walking after her, and before she could get to the exit, he had already caught up to her. " So, if you could cool your jets, I could take you to the new steakhouse that opened like yesterday. I was gonna save my money for more gear, but hey, a man's gotta eat, right?" Iroh said, with a smile, as he let out a flinch, and a light groan. Note to self: Explosive tag at point-blank does hurt pretty bad.

Yumi heard Iroh and threw a glance at him. Was he asking her out..On a date? At first she wanted to laugh, but then also felt warm. Was he even serious? She stopped and looked with a surprised expression on her face in his direction. It took her a bit before she could ask her question at him. ''You are asking me on a...I am not sure, I don't have much money at the moment..A-a-and then what about the team? I mean..''

She cursed herself for being such a damn chicken. Didn't she liked him? No, he was a cocky and annoying bugger. Only thing she liked about hims was ...That he was one cocky, annoying bugger. Yumi shoved some hair that had fallen in front of her face and wasn't sure what to say anymore.

Iroh chuckled as he had done one of the things he rarely achieved. He had gotten Yumi to suddenly feel rather uncomfortable, it amused him, it really did. He liked seeing her letting up, to not constantly pout and seem angry. He smiled at her, as he shook his head. I was actually raised with some manners, course I'd pay for you! Come on, it'll be fun, promise." Iroh promised.

Yumi was still thinking if it was a good move, but he said it was going to be fun, right? What could go wrong? That thought made Yumi almost laugh again, as it was Iroh. What couldn't go wrong with him close by? However what had she to lose?
Slowly she nodded and smiled. ''O-okay. I wouldn't mind to e-eat with you.'' She walked beside him and was thinking where he would take her too.

Iroh smiled as Yumi accepted his invitation he nodded as he looked forward.
Great! Shall we go? he asked, as he sat his arm down onto his hip, as if he invited Yumi to hold onto it, as he began walking. Mother of sweet baby ninjutsu did the floor feel strange.. he thought.
Yumi walked beside him and decided to ask him a question that just popped inside her mind when she had noticed something. ''Maybe you can change? You know..Since you aren't even wearing any shoes.'' Yumi said it politely, though she kind of had it expected from him. It was Iroh after all.

Iroh laughed as Yumi proposed that he'd go change. " But that would be such a extra long detour. My house is on the other side of the village, after all." Iroh said, as he nodded for Yumi to turn, as they had gotten outside of the hospital now. Odds were the doctors had panicked over Iroh leaving, and that thought alone made Iroh laugh out loud, once they had gotten out of sight.

Yumi got a bit starled. Going to his home? Bringing him to the hospital, okay. Training with him, sure. But walking him to his home? She just nodded as she tried to surpress her blush. Yumi just walked beside to his home and decided to just act silently and try to remain on the background. With a bit of luck, his parents or such weren't home when they would drop by.

Iroh and Yumi did arive about 10 minutes later, at Iroh's house. As contrary to what most might've believed, Iroh actually lived alone in the two-story house. Mostly the reason why he was never home, too darn boring. He waved his hand, as if to invite Yumi into the house, as he himself got in, and close the door behind them. " I'll go upstairs and change clothes. No peeping. Iroh psuedo-joked, as he vanished up to his bedroom.

She nodded and just stood there, waiting for him to be finished already. While she was feeling cold sweat, she wasn't sweating. It was just the feeling as she was feeling very uncomfortable being in the home of Iroh. What was he going to wear? Then she shook her head lightly, trying to dismiss the thought. What did it matter? They were just going out to grab a bite, what else? Nothing! Right, nothing more! Yumi hoped the 10 minutes would pas soon or that Iroh would just hurry.


A few minutes later, Iroh came walking down, wearing a pair of blue pants, going all the way down to his feet, a navy-blue T-shirt, as well as his black jacket, his Leaf-Tags hung around his neck, outside of his shirt. He had washed his face, from the remnants of blood and dirt, and if you couldn't see the weary look on his face, you never would've thought he had 4 broken ribs and twice as many broken bones. " So, can we leave now, I'm starving. Iroh said to Yumi.

Yumi nodded as she then quickly looked the other way. Why was she even acting like this? ''Fine, I am a bit hungry to. Where are we going to, again?'' She asked him with a bit curious tone in her voice. Letting somebody pay for her wasn't really something that seemed nice to her, but would be nice for a change, no? She could always try to pay him later the money back.
''Are you besides from starving, doing fine? I heard some doctor saying that you were in bad shape.''


" Ichigo's steakhouse. Best place in the entire leaf, apparently. It's supposebly gonna take forever to get a table. However, I did a mission for him a couple of weeks back, so I got one-time reservations, whenever I'd like." Iroh told Yumi, as he chuckled slightly, he came down the last step, as he smirked at the fact that Yumi looked the other way. Iroh wasn't feeling shy at all, I mean, there was really nothing to be shy about in this.

At least not to him, there wasn't. When Yumi brought up what the doctors said, Iroh laughed. Please, I could've taken a hundred of those tags to the face, and I'd still be up and running. I'm the strongest ninja in the world, remember?" Iroh assured Yumi, putting on a brave face to not show how badly hurt he actually was.
"Sooo.. Shall we leave?" Iroh asked.

Yumi nodded. How many times hadn't he already told her that? It was annoying as..Yumi just walked with him and tried to behave friendly and polite all the time, but found it hard. What if he would be offended with something she would say? Then again, it was Iroh! How much was she going to ask herself such stupid questions this night? Almost letting out a sigh she flashed him a smile and decided to say something nice.

''I know, you keep telling it me every time we see each other. Even when I am not saying anything.'' She said as she tried to sound friendly.

Iroh chuckled again, at Yumi's comment. " I think a wise man once told me, that actions alone cannot prove anything, words are just as important." Iroh explained vaguely for Yumi, truth be told, he barely even knew what it meant. However, they would soon arive at Ichigo's. Iroh nodde for Yumi to wait outside the door, as Iroh went to talk ot the guard, making him call onto Ichigo. Whom came walking, and smiled the widest you had ever seen. "Oh, it's Iroh, hello there, you little batter!" the man shouted, as he hugged Iroh, lifting him up into the air.

Iroh groaned from the physical push, and basically used all of his mental strength to not either scream, or punch Ichigo in the face. H-Hi Ichigo.. Remember that reservation I was promised?.. Iroh told him, that Ichigo smiled at. " Of course, we just got a table free, is it just you?.. Oh." He said, as he saw Yumi. " Now, aren't you just adorable." Ichigo told Yumi, as he looked her over, before he began walking down to her. " Well, well, a table for two for Mr.Uzumaki and his date."

" She's not a- Nevermind." Iroh let out, he wasn't even gonna try to talk with Ichigo over it, he just tried the best possible to hide his blushing. Reached out his hand to Yumi, as the Waiter was gonna show them to their table.

Yumi looked surprised when she was called to be his date. Was this a date? She tried to smile, but wanted to kill the man right now. Maybe Iroh would object to it and Yumi's right fist started to clench. While keeping the anger and blood lust back she was feeling, she just followed Iroh and saw that the place was fancier then..She never had eaten in a fancy place. What should she do, she was asking herself while trying to not panic. Smiling!

Yumi smiled and looked around, before talking to Iroh. ''This place looks very nice! But are you sure you want to pay for me? I don't mind it to pay for myself, Iroh-kun.'' She said, before realizing too late she had said his name, with -kun. Feeling that she was blushing a bit she just smiled and hoped it wouldn't be noticed.


"Course I'll pay for you, silly. You can pay me back by pinning a few of your crystal shards in Kanajiro-sama's back." Iroh said cheerfully, however, when he reflected on her sentence, he realized she had called him -kun, she never did that. He blushed, as he took his seat. "W-What did I tell you, this place is awesome!" Iroh told her, as the waiter came to take their orders.

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Some time later

Yumi smiled. It was indeed fun with Iroh and she had enjoyed her meal, but it was getting late and she was feeling tired. Slowly and with a friendly voice she spoke to Iroh. ''So, I enjoyed this very much. But it is getting late. Soo..'' She said while thinking what would be a good way to say she was going home. A bit of regret came up, as she wanted to laugh more with him about the things they had talked about. But she also wanted to get to training in the morning, right when the sun would be up.

Iroh had enjoyed the evening, hell, he had even gotten Yumi to laugh. How was that even possible? He might never find out. However, it was getting late, Iroh was tired, and oh man, was his ribs hurting. He flashed a warm smile, as Yumi implied she should probably go home. Iroh stood up from his chair, and smiled. "So, want me to follow you on your way home, I wouldn't want you to you know, get mugged. The muggers would never make it out alive." Iroh asked her, as he was half-joking with the last part.

Yumi was wavering and decided to politely answer him back. ''I-I-I will be fine, thank you, but what about you? I mean, I don't want to give some mugger a easy job by robbing the strongest shinobi, who is now a bit...broken.'' She giggled and then rose up from her chair.

Iroh chuckled, as Yumi clearly tried to understimate his power. He pumped his fist against his chest, as he muffled a groan of pain. " I insist, your house is on the way home from here, after all." Iroh assured Yumi. Truth be told, he just didn't wanna go all the way home alone, he had too much damn fun, and wanted to spend as much time as possible with the crazy girl that was his teammate.

Yumi couldn't hide her smile and just nodded. He would probably just go along with her if she would object to it..And she had to admit, it was fun with him. But why was she feeling so warm and strange with him nearby? Waiting till he had paid she followed him outside and noticed it was a bit colder. Showing him a smile she then tried to think of something to say.
''The food was..Sublime! Hahaha, oh sorry..I am not used to those fancy places, but the food was amazing.'' She said.


As they began walking, Iroh couldn't help but smile. What the heck was he so happy about? He had been completely ignoring the pain he was in, like it was nothing. He had just been focusing on Yumi the entire night, well, Yumi, and how freaking awesome the food had been. " Can't help but agree, the food was awesome." He said, satisfied, as they were walking through the darkened night. The streets was fairly empty of people, most were either asleep, or indoors by now.

''So...Quite silent around this time, no?'' She said without looking at him. It wasn't that cold anymore but she wasn't sure about what she could say anymore. Maybe just being silent then? Would that offend him? She stuttered and tried to add something to her question. ''Not t-t-that I mind i-i-it. Do you?''


Iroh looked at her, and remained quiet at her question, he was just so darn busy looking at her that he hadn't even heard that she had spoken. However, the next time she spoke, Iroh flinched, as he went what But then quickly regained his composure. " N-No.. I don't mind either." Iroh said, still keeping his eyes pinned on Yumi, for some reason, he just thought she was so much cuter than usually.

Why was he staring at her? Was there something on her face? Yumi was glad it was dark, that way he couldn't notice her blushing like a freaking tomatoe. What was going on? While lost in thought she didn't looked where she was walking and softly bumped against him. Being scared she almost fell and grabbed him. ''Oh, sorry! Sorry! I euhm...Sorry..'' She felt like a idiot for being such a clumsy person.

Iroh froze for a second, as Yumi tripped and bumped into him, but he caught her by the arms, however, her head had bumped into his ribs, so he muffled a pain-filled groan. " It's.. No.. Problem.. The otherwise rather well-spoken Uzumaki let out, as he made sure that Yumi could walk propely. " Watch your step. Iroh said, a form of cuteness could be found in his voice.
Yumi nodded and looked the other way as she suddenly spoke with a serious voice, a bit out of place, but only noticed it when she heared herself talking. ''You are kind of cute. You know that?'' Realizing she could have said it nicer she quickly tried to explain it to him, before he might could get strange ideas.

''I-I-I-I mean that you are..Well, I ...It is just that I was..No, I...I can't e-e-explain it. It is cold, isn't it?'' She said, feeling hopeless lost.

Iroh was both happy, but also dumbfounded by what Yumi had just said, and the fact that she began mumbling non-sense after it, that was really not like her. However, Iroh smiled as she had finished her sentence, as she was trying to change the subject. " You're cute too, Yumi, especially when you're not trying to murder me." Aeiroh told her, with a smile.
Yumi looked shocked. Did he called her cute? She tried to answer it back and found out she couldn't. For some reason she wasn't sure about, but wanted to both punch him as to.. She sighed and tried to smile back. ''You k-know, I hate to hurt you....Sorry if I ever did. Truly am.''

Iroh scoffed at Yumi's apology, as he took a step closer to her, and put his right arm around his lower back, and quickly, pressed his lips against hers. A few seconds later, he looked at her, with his blue eyes and smiled. " I don't recall you being the one who put the explosive tag in my face." Iroh said, smiling.

Yumi was star struck. As he took a step forward, she wasn't sure what and then he kissed her. First she opened her eyes wide open of shock and surprise, but then calmed down. The few seconds were short, but Yumi felt her heart jumping of the roof, to say. She couldn't be more happier but was still surprised. Looking surprised at him, she tried to remain her cool self, but knew it wouldn't work.
''W-Why did you kissed me?'' She asked with a surprised expression on her face as she wasn't sure what to say or to ask.

" You're the cute one. Not much I can do to help it." Iroh said, with a chuckle, as he continued to look at her, before they continued walking, slowly. " And besides. Didn't you want me to?" Iroh asked, with a smile.
She walked beside him, bit closer then she had been and listened to his words. ''I don't know...I really like you Ae- Iroh-kun, but I just feel strange. Not that you ca-a-used it, but just. I am not sure what the others will say when they see you with me.'' She glanced at him. ''I am not that of a love-able person.''

" Please, I'm still the best ninja in the village, if anyone would have anything against it, I'd kick their ass." Iroh told her, it was completely geniune. Yumi laughed suddenly when he proclaimed himself to be the best again. She looked at him and for some reason he looked like the best. ''You are the best...Iroh-kun, but I am home..Euhm..About what had happened..'' She tried to say when they arrived at her home and then she just asked him the question that was kind of bothering her.
''Did you meant anything with it or was just a one time thing? I won't get angry, promised...''

Iroh smiled as Yumi laughed, for some reason, he found her laughter really cute tonight.
He responded with a simple " I know" to her first question, but as they had arrived at her house, Iroh looked at her as he grabbed her by the hand, and pulled her close, and kissed her again. " I kinda enjoy doing this, don't you?" He asked, with a chuckle.

Yumi wavered and then gave up. She couldn't be sure if he was honest, but was sure he wasn't lying either. Looking at the ground, she quickly took a step forward and planted a kiss on his right cheek. ''T-T-thanks Iroh..I enjoyed it. It was really fun tonight.'' She said while taking a step back and flashing a smile to him. Yumi still felt insecure, but also happy cause she had a little crush on him, but to think he had kissed her, she still couldn't believe it.