Tenten placed a hand on her shoulder and rubbed the back of her neck with a light blush on her face, "Hehehe, I guess you know me too well. So is that the only reason you came here? To give me this beautiful present?"
Naruto smiled for a moment before sighing, "Well this was the part where I was going to ask you if you wanted to catch a movie with me, however I'm afraid I won't be able to do that."
"Why not?" Tente tilted her head to the side as a sign of confusion.
Naruto shifted uncomfortably, "Because I'm going on a three year training trip with Ero-sennin."
"What?" asked Tenten, not quite sure she had heard him correctly.
"I'm going to be leaving Konoha for three years to train with Ero-sennin. Because of… a certain threat that he's found out about he wants to train me so I can fight better, but he can't stay here due to his spy network."
Tenten's shoulders slumped a bit, "So you're leaving?"
"Yes…" Naruto frowned as he saw Tenten's depressed expression, "You know this won't be the last time we see each other or anything. I'll be back in three years."
"Yeah, I guess you're right," Tenten gave him a smile as she tried not to let how horrible she felt at knowing Naruto was leaving. "You're going to keep in touch at least right?" She asked after a while, giving him a potent glare.
Knowing what she was doing Naruto just grinned, "You know I will."
"You'd better," Tenten held her glare for a second more before hugging him, thankfully it was not a death grip like her last hug. "I'm gonna miss you…"
Naruto sighed as he wrapped his arms around and placed his chin on her head, "I'll miss you too Ten-chan."
They stayed like that for several minutes before Tenten looked up at Naruto, blue eyes met brown as the bun-haired weapons user began to bring her head closer to his. Almost out of instinct, Naruto followed suit and brought his head down. Their lips were just about to touch when a cough interrupted them, "I hope you have a good reason for getting so close to my daughter."
Recognizing the voice Naruto shot backwards and turned to face Kaito, "Hehe well you see it was only that I was- it was… uh…" He noticed the glare he was receiving and sighed, "You know what, fine. I'll just tell you what you want to hear, not like you're gonna listen to me anyways. I was telling her that I was leaving on a three year training trip and was hoping that this would make Tenten admit her deep seated feelings of love for me, after which she would invite me upstairs and we would have hot passionate sex… sir."
By the end of Naruto's explanation both Tenten and Kaito were red. Though, Tenten's was from utter embarrassment and Kaito simply looked like he was about to blow a gasket.
"That was the wrong thing to say to me gaki," Kaito threw a kunai at Naruto that hit him right between the eyes, showing just where Tenten had learned her own weapon throwing skills from. However, Naruto burst into smoke seconds later and a loge appeared in his place.
"I'll see you later Ten-chan!"
Tenten and her father turned just in time to see Naruto running out the door.
"Tou-san…" Tenten said in a quiet voice that immediately put her father on guard.
"Yes Tenten?" asked Kaito.
"I hope you're ready to be used as target practice!" Tenten pulled out several kunai and began launching them at her dad who ran into the forge and locked the door.
(The next day…)
Naruto waited as Jiraiya gave their papers to the Chunin gate guards, who were surprisingly not Kotetsu and Izumo this time. He looked at the village that he was leaving, the home he would not see for three years. He had already said goodbye to his friends, not wanting there to be any fan fair when he left.
"Come one gaki. It's time to go," Jiraiya hiked up his scroll and began walking out of the village. Naruto followed a few seconds later, pausing on top of a hill that overlooked the village. The blond took one last look at his home before running to catch up with his sensei.
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