Rabbit Princess [Gaara] [2]

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"Tsukiko-Chan!" Konohamaru called out and Tsukiko turned around to watch him rush over to where she was walking down the street to the direction of the Hokage Office. "What are you doing? Sakura-San said you were out training with Naruto Onii-Chan,"

"I already finished with my training," Tsukiko replied. She smirked. "I made a new Jutsu, Usa! Want to see it?" She looked around them. "Never mind, we can't do that around here..."

"Can you teach it to me?" Konohamaru said as he began to walk next to the white-haired girl. "Naruto Nii-Chan already taught me some of the Rasengan..."

"What is your Chakra nature?" Tsukiko asked him, curious.

"I'm Wind-natured, just like Naruto Nii-Chan and Asuma Oji-San," Konohamaru replied excitedly. Tsukiko nodded slowly, figuring that Sakura must've mentioned it to him. "So, can you teach me?"

"I'm sorry, Konohamaru, but you have to learn how to use Water Chakra before I can teach you my Jutsus," Tsukiko replied with a frown. "My Jutsus are mainly based on Water and Earth natures,"

Konohamaru sighed and looked down. Tsukiko looked at him.

"But you can always learn later!" Tsukiko told him. "When you grow up, you can learn to use other nature transformations and I will teach you my Jutsus. It's not like I'm going anywhere, am I?"

"But won't you move away?" Konohamaru asked, looking up at the girl. Tsukiko gave him a confused look. "Don't you like the Kazekage? The scary guy?"

"U-Usa?" Tsukiko asked, her cheeks turning pink. "What makes you say that? We're not dating!" She narrowed her eyes. "Who told you that I was going to move away?"

"No one," Konohamaru replied. "But I was asked to give you these letters," He held up the parchment and Tsukiko's blush darkened when she saw the Sunagakure stamp on it.

"G-Gaara," Tsukiko muttered and hurriedly took the letter from Konohamaru, stuffing it away into her pouch and looking away, holding in her smile.

"So," Konohamaru continued. "Do you already like Gaara, the Kazekage? I thought you were going to wait for me until I became the Hokage!"

"Usa, you make me sound like some gold digger!" Tsukiko complained, giving him a look. "I'm not in love with anyone right now! Besides, when love happens, it happens!"

"You're not a gold digger," Konohamaru replied, frowning. "You like strong men!" Tsukiko could feel her embarrassment grow. "If he doesn't like you, I'll always be here for you!"

"Don't you have any mission to attend to?" Tsukiko asked, changing the conversation. Konohamaru was stumped and almost fell over. "I'm going to complain to Ebisu Sensei about it,"

"I wanted to go on the top-secret mission, yesterday," Konohamaru complained. Tsukiko stared at him. "Oji-Chan and his team went, too,"

"Shikamaru?" Tsukiko asked, looking to the direction of the Hokage Office. "What kind of top-secret mission was it?" She hadn't heard of anything like that from Sakura.

"I couldn't eavesdrop," Konohamaru replied, putting his arms behind his head. "It's hard to sneak in when you're not the Honourable Grandson anymore... but I do know that a lot of units went,"

"Is that so...?" Tsukiko muttered, wondering if Tsunade would let her in on it. "Ah, right, I'll go in now and see if there's any mission for me,"

"See you, Tsukiko-Chan!" Konohamaru replied, waving his goodbye as they parted their ways and Tsukiko headed inside the Hokage Office.

"Good afternoon, Tsukiko-Chan!" Shizune greeted her, seemingly on her way out of the office with Tonton in her arms. "How did your training go?"

"It went great, thank you, Shizune Senpai," Tsukiko replied, grinning. "Just heading in to report to Granny Tsunade and see if there's any mission,"