Chapter 6

AN: Sorry for the very very very very very long delay for those of you who care, I had to cook this bad boy for a long long time, let the creative juice be absorbed into it.

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Naruto looked down at his ramen, they slowly formed an intersection of two subsets of the real numbers under a standard topology. He could clearly tell the left set, referred to as A was closed as it was containing all its limit points. This meant the topological space X without A, seen as X – A is an open set. Naruto of course is not so foolish as to make the assumption that X – A is not also closed, as he was working in a topological space so open and closed aren't actually opposites of each definition wise. He let out a small chuckle thinking about how foolish someone would have to be to make such a rookie topological mistake as that.

"Hey Naruto, is the other set shown inside my bowl, referred to as U, a closed set as well or just simply an open set?" the bowl of ramen asked.

"Well" Naruto began without batting an eye at such an easy question, "If you recall my previous fight with Sasuke in which I countered his Sharingan with my topological jutsu. We know that A is closed and X-A is open by one of our theorems from the section on limit points and closed sets, and then we can use a corollary of this that says U is open if and only if X-U is closed. If U was also closed we have to show that X-U is also open by the theorem. Since X-U is a subset of X, meaning it's in the topological space, it is open, thus we can say by the theorem U is closed."

Naruto very smugly looked down at his bowl of ramen after finishing his proof satisfied with it. He slurped up the rest of ramen loudly to signify how delicious it tasted to nearby onlookers. He received thunderous applause to accompany his slurps, the people of Konoha finally had learned to appreciate his Topological genius. He felt exhilarated as someone dumped a bowl of ramen on him and yelled his name.

Naruto was woken up by the feeling of a bucket of cold water being dumped on him. By none other than the very angry Kakashi. Who was also yelling at him, dreams can almost come true.

"So Naruto, imagine for a moment, that you're me, and your favorite book is suddenly full of topology proofs" Kakashi seemed very upset if the one eye was a good indicator of his emotions.

"I can't quite suspend my disbelief that far sorry" So far so good just gotta distract him with big words so he's confused.

"I insist you try to" damn there goes plan A.

"It was to test my abilities" that's the perfect response.

"Ok now remember our talk about how if you're possessed it's bad, because right now it sounds a lot like you're possessed" Kakashi always wants to go to possession this possession that, jeez what a stick in the mud.

"No wait ok it's not like that I just was joking" nice recovery that doesn't sound at all like what an evil fox demon would say.

"Uh huh this sounds very questionably like an evil fox demon that is possessing an idiot boy" he is really on this case now, what an asshole.

"Wow, you know you're being like super judgmental right now, what if a good fox demon was possessing me huh? You'd look like a total asshole right now wouldn't you" the classic mix up that no one ever see coming.

"I don't think good fox demons would one: Refer to themselves as a demon or two: Possess someone" he may be called the Copy Cat ninja but right now he's more like Detective Ninja.

"Does Ninja detective or Detective Ninja sound like a better title for someone who is both ninja and detective?" this was a very important question.

"I, what, why, Detective Ninja" Kakashi went through all seven stages of grief in a matter of seconds, he had to teach Naruto that move.

"Cool that's what I was thinking sounded better" the sigh Kakashi let out meant Naruto was now 100% off the hook and in the clear.

"You're not off the hook at all Naruto" Fucking mind reading piece of shit. "You have to get me a new book and if there's any topology in it I will make your life miserable."

"No one appreciates the beauty of topology, don't come crying to me when you need my topology jutsu to save the day" he shivered a bit, only now realizing he was soaking wet from the waist up thanks to Kakashi. "But fine I'll get you a stupid book."

Naruto took off his jacket and shirt to try and not catch a cold on his walk back. If he was lucky he'd run into Sasuke and could get a fireball or two to dry them off faster. But this is Naruto Uzumaki, and he is never lucky.

Hearing footsteps from around a bend up ahead he sped up, rounding the corner without looking or even actually thinking he barreled right into the other person. With a small crash he knocked the other person over. Luckily some of his ninja training went to good use as he managed not to fall on them.

"Sorry Sas-" he didn't finish his sentence as he realized his face was inches from Hakus face.

"Damn kid you're smooth" really, today was like the worst day ever, and he had gotten the ability to fucking freeze time a few hours ago.

"Are you alright Naruto?" goddamn Haku and his pretty face and his pretty eyes full of concern, all of which were still very close to Naruto's own face.

"Move you insufferable idiot" with this literal insult Naruto snapped out of his small daze and quickly rolled off Haku, he winced a little as he landed on a rock.

"Is your wound hurting again, where does it hurt?" almost instantly Hakus gentle hands were on Naruto.

Naruto realized he was shirtless and now had Haku feeling his chest. This to no one's surprise made him incredibly embarrassed as he started to blush.

"I'M FINE" smooth, so, so smooth. "SORRY FOR FALLING ON YOU AND GETTING DIRT ON YOUR BUTT GOTTA GO BYE."

Naruto demonstrated his mastery of being a goddamn idiot as he shoved Haku's hand off him and quickly ran away. After about twenty minutes of running he hopped up into a tree to hide incase Haku chased after him.

"Oh god I talked about his butt" Naruto Uzumaki, master of knowing what he had said.

"Don't forget the falling on top of him, freezing there for like a minute and then freaking out before running away. I'm gonna watch that on loop when I feel sad so thank you for that memory" today really was the worst.

"Naruto?" from the ground, to his absolute mortification, was Haku, again. "You shouldn't be running around like this, and you absolutely shouldn't be climbing trees in your state."

What was this guy some kind of Detective Ninja, how was he so good at following Naruto.

"Don't move I'll help you get down" oh god apparently saying nothing meant needing help down.

Haku climbed up the tree quite quickly, maybe he was of a Ninja Detective but that's neither here nor there.

Naruto, now face to face with Haku again was faced with a choice. Sit here and like a normal person assure Haku he was alright and apologize for acting weird earlier. Or act like an idiot again and do something stupid.

"For the love of god just talk to him, who knows you might even get to first base here" NOT HELPING.

"Naruto" oh god Haku had been talking and he'd been zoned out the whole time. "Just hold my hand and I'll help you down ok."

Naruto had never felt more afraid than he did looking at the outstretched hand. He really wished Kakashi could bust out another Chidori to spare him this moment.

Without getting a reply Haku grabbed Naruto's hand. Naruto looked at his face, Haku gave him a warm smile. Naruto didn't know what to do so he just followed Haku out of the tree. Haku had made an ice platform that slowly lowered the two. It felt like an eternity, Naruto couldn't stop looking at their hands. Together. Holding. Holding Hands.

"God you're a weird kid" the fox had a point yeah but whose fault was it Naruto had no family? Hm? Hmmmm?

"Naruto you can step off now" they were back at ground level now Haku had already stepped off to help him down.

Stepping off slowly he tried not to think about Haku's had on his waist to help him down. He also tried very hard, and failed to let go of Haku's hand.

"So" oh god a talk was going to happen. "Do you want me to walk you back to the house?"

Oh thank god this wasn't a feelings talk at all. Naruto nodded his head, knowing he'd say something stupid if he tried to talk.

It wasn't too long a walk surprisingly, it would have only been about fifteen minutes. On minute four Naruto realized he was still holding Haku's hand. On minute five he remembered he was still shirtless. These mini-freak outs added about ten minutes to their walk back. Naruto would have felt worse if Haku hadn't giggled during his freak outs, which made it all feel a bit more worth it. When they finally got back to the house Naruto realized he didn't actually want the walk to end, he also saw Kakashi and remembered he had to buy a book.

"I, uh actually have to head shopping real quick" he reluctantly let go of Haku's hand and turned towards the town.

"Naruto wait" he froze and turned back around, he then quickly faced forward again as he saw Haku removing his own shirt. "I can't let you walk around town shirtless."

'I'll be fine" he wasn't looking at Haku, and was blushing bright red.

"No and that's final" Haku walked in front of him, draping the pink shirt over Naruto's shoulders as he did so. "I won't let you catch a cold while you're still recovering."

To Naruto's relief Haku still had an undershirt on. He reluctantly complied and put on the shirt, he didn't realize how cold he'd gotten.

"And you don't look half bad in pink" if any of Naruto's blush had faded it instantly came back with that comment. "And and when you get back come see me."

Oh no. It's time to start over, find a new village, make a fake name, learn to fish, and get lost at sea. Yeah the good life.

"I'll need my shirt back after all" oh whew never mind plan die a fisherman is stowed away again. "Oh and don't tell Zubzuba."

"Tell him wha" oh god they were kissing.

Haku. Was. Kissing. Him.

"I knew you could do it kid" AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

Naruto just stood there, ironically, frozen in place as Haku giggled and walked back into the house.

"He just, he" Naruto had no idea how to process his second kiss ever.

"Who just what" Oh fuck off Sasuke showing up now instead of when you were needed.