A Hard Ball in a Soft Tennis Court
A Naruto and Softenni! Crossover Story
retold and rearranged by blukmage19
Rated: M - for slapstick comedy, foul language (mostly from Kotoné and a few others), frequent sexual misunderstandings, occasional ecchi scenes, descriptive sexual and non-sexual moments (possible lime scenes), but there are strictly and positively NO direct 'Lemon' or 'Vanilla' sex scenes. (indirect, maybe...)
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy/Humor, Parody, Slice of Life, Sports, School Life
Tags: Modern/Smarter/Athletic/Civilian/No Chakra/Farmer!Naruto
Main Pairing: Naruto/Elizabeth/Kurusu, Harem (maybe?)
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Deal with it. Any similarities of people (living, dead, or somewhere in between), locations, and characters used in this story are entirely coincidental. The rights of Naruto and Softenni! are reserved to their respective owners.
However, the sounds for comedic tendencies are intentionally real.
If you want to leave a review, please, no unnecessary flaming! Some criticism is fine, but don't overdo it, but remember. Otherwise, I'll be too busy with other things, OK?
Game 1-A
A Refreshing Morning Practice
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[Sometime in a not-too-distant future]
A Tennis supervisor, an English teacher, an eccentric tennis savvy, a karaté club teacher, a head chef of a restaurant, a cougar for a rancher plus her younger lionhearted chiropractic husband, and a former Women's Grand Slam champion are attending the Shiratama Junior High School in Hokkaido to view the opening ceremony for their eldest children to attend.
But wait just a minute! We're getting ahead of ourselves. This looks like a happy ending! Let us turn back the clock a few years to where how all of this have started...
-HBSTC-
[Spring 20XX]
This is Naruto Namikazé, Age 13½ (born in October 10, Sports Day, before the date change), Second Year Junior High, above average weight and height of the average 14-Year Old Male, and sports a farmer's tan.
In another lifetime, he would've been the idiotic Orange Ninja that is fighting against the odds against the pride, prejudice of allied and enemy Shinobi, and being the Jinchuuriki container of the 9-tailed Fox that gave him many a hardship...
But not in this one!
(The people in the Naruto world are giving off their disappointed/uncertain/surprised looks and expressions. Even Orochimaru plus his flunkies, the Akatsuki, Danzo Shimura plus his ROOT cronies, and 'Tobi/Madara' Uchiha grumbled as they were utterly dismayed at the forbidden opportunity and walked away.)
Nope. In this lifetime, Naruto lives with his maternal aunt and (slightly) older cousin in a ranch down in Hokkaido, Japan.
His parents are often on business trips involving the promotion and sponsorship in tennis, leaving him feeling all alone. Thankfully, he was never really alone, because his relatives took him in and he boarded up at their house while doing some of the chores in the dairy farm known as [Harukazé Milk Cow Ranch] and spend quality time with his small family. (Naruto isn't the kind to be afraid on getting his hands dirty, especially when handling the Holstein Freisian milk cows.)
Living in the farm are a single mother named Kasuga (35) and her only daughter, Asuna (14, Second Year Junior High, a low B-Cup, and a fair complexion), who is a pinkette that is a bit of an airhead, a bit of a klutz to her sport, and a rather lewd character that is out to get what she wanted (and it's more than just her attention). Thankfully, both Kasuga and Naruto put the silly girl in her place, with a comical bump on the head.
(Naruto can only be a brother in this kind of relationship with Asuna.)
In school, he is working hard on his grades, so that he get more out for his opportunities and his quick noodle time (for he likes ramen, udon, soba, lo mein, chow mein, etc., etc., any good variety of quick cooking noodles with different mixtures and flavors; but he's only allowed to have them once a day, so that he can enjoy better eating). What's even more important is that he wanted his grades to be great enough to keep him in sports, especially his part as assistant manager of the school's Soft Tennis Club.
Currently, there are only 6 members of the club: The manager (which he'll show up a little later), Naruto (the assistant manager, umpire, and spare player), and the 4 Seasons, that are the 4 girls with surnames named after a season.
First is Asuna Harukazé (representing Spring). (We know about her already, so let's move on...)
Second is Kotoné Sawanatsu (representing Summer, recently turned 14, Olive complexion, Second Year, a high B to low C-Cup), a brunette, is living in her family's karaté dojo and has a bit of a crush with a certain manager (it's not Naruto, because she doesn't like her classmate much, when (from her perspective) he tries to interfere with her lovelife while trying to make her to get her head back in the game), and she's strong-willed, but sometimes she doesn't know her own strength, for she tends to use too much force and overreach her body just to satisfy her winnings. She has dreams of going to Wimbledon to challenge the best of the best in the courts in a Soft Tennis match. (Of course, there aren't any confirmed Soft Tennis Tournaments in Wimbledon yet.)
Next is Chitosé Akiyama (A.K.A. - Chicchan, representing Autumn, 14½, Third Year, low E-Cup, fair complexion) is a young verdette who is the Team Captain of the Club with voluptuous 'assets' to show. Normally, Chitosé would have the ability to at least match with her underclassmen, but for some strange reason, she is often not keeping herself up in the groove; in other words, she's a pitiful player. Even Naruto was holding back when facing off against the verdette. And why not? Chitosé has an uncontrollable appetite for anything she can get her mouth on, especially with the white Soft Tennis balls. (Maybe the manager ought to change the color of the soft Tennis balls to something that can discourage certain gluttons from eating the wrong thing.)
And finally, there's Kurusu Fuyukawa (representing Winter, 13, 1st Year). She's a bluette who is the real Ace of the group and Naruto's good friend. She's a bit of a quiet type like Rei Ayanami, but is a very outspoken girl that is naturally Polynesian dark-skinned complexion (from one side of her family) and is very athletic, even more so than Naruto. She hasn't reached her growth spurt like her peers, but that doesn't stop her from priming herself in the Tennis games. Of course, she has a quirk or two that makes her a unique character: she has a habit of wearing strange and unusual costumes, either to scare somebody stupid or just to show off.
-HBSTC-
Naruto also has a long-distance friend that is very dear to him. Her name: Elizabeth Warren (AKA Eli-chan, 14, just started puberty, A-Cup, and a light complexion).
(Pronounced "U~oh-re-n". It sounded similar to "Wholen".)
She lives in London, England (practically on the other side of the planet) and they wrote letters to each other - snail mail, fax, and later with e-mail - about their lives in their countries and how they are admirers of Hiroshi* Mishimagi (better known as Mishi or Missy to the English speaking folk.)
(* - Hiroshi's name (洋) is also spelled as Yoh, meaning ocean.)
-Flashback-
It all started when Naruto and Eli were about 5 years old, the Namikazés were having a meeting with the Warrens in a Tennis facility in England. Naruto and Elizabeth were having a friendly match in the kid's section of the Tennis courts outside in the summer. That was when they got the attention of Mishi, who ended up babysitting the two while trying to practice for the All-Japan Soft Tennis Cup, and he gave them a few pointers in their abilities and an important lesson on keeping oneself hydrated in the heat. Eventually, both blonds have worked up a sweat (for kindergartners, that is), making the role model very happy for his young protégés' progress.
When the kids returned with their families, Naruto and Eli became slightly tanned (even though they are wearing sunscreen) and are also quite sweaty. The Namikazé parents are worried that their only son is falling in love with the Warrens' only daughter down the road. So the parents of both families decided to test their children as the former were sent to the Bath Room in the Warren Mansion to wash the work off of their young bodies while they find them a change of clothes.
Naruto and Eli went to the bathtub to draw out water and pour out a bubble bath solution, then they shyly faced away from each other as they undressed themselves and removed their accessories before they carefully stepped into the tub. Both kids are still rather nervous of seeing each other completely naked as they sat down back to back.
(Naruto and Asuna, back in Hokkaido, used to take baths together when they were younger, but this is different.)
Then Naruto broke the ice and said about how they've became friends since their parents visit each other's countries from time to time for business meetings. They shared the love of Tennis and have enjoyed their company.
That was when Naruto felt something soft from behind his back and noticed that Eli turned around and caresses her cheek with his as she liked the Japanese blond for being a friend to her and she said in English, "«I like Missy, but I like...no, I love you even more. You helped me make feel better, since I'm an only child and that I haven't have any other good friends.»"
Naruto didn't know what to expect. He has been hanging around with girls and women all of his life, but this is a first time that someone like Eli that said that she 'loved' him. So he swallowed his pride and asked (in English), "«Do you mean it?»"
"«Yes, I do,»" Eli replied.
"«Then, I love you, too, Eli-chan,»" Naruto said as he turned around and looked at Eli face-to-face (with her body barely covered in suds) and he continued, "«I love you for the kind things that you have shown to me. Say, can we make a promise? For that day, when we meet again, we can be more than just good friends. Won't we?»"
Eli never felt this elated in her young life and she did something that shocked the witnesses that are hiding behind the one-way mirror (adjacent to the sink) in the secret passage: Eli kissed Naruto on the lips that literally took his breath away. (It wasn't the cootie effect.) The Namikazé can't explain about how the young and pretty Warren kissed him like they are the bride and groom. And he's trying his hardest to cover his growing boyhood before he almost went too far from getting into Eli's sweet spot. Then she stopped kissing and said, "«It's a promise, Darling.» *heart mark*" Then the kids resumed bathing and scrubbing each other's backs, arms, and their golden blond hair like they are a married couple, and they do a little fun playing in the bubbles.
While Naruto and Eli finished bathing and are drying off and covering their modesty with the towels, their parents secretly made a solemn vow between families that one day when the kids become older, then they'll consider on putting them into a secret arranged marriage. They won't be allowed in having sexual intercourse or having children on the conditions are as follows: Until they are 20, are properly married to each other, and if they're ready and willing.
When the kids meet their parents, they were given a real heart-to-heart 'Talk' about the "Birds and the Bees" and the facts of life.
Since then, the two blondes made a pinky promise between friends that they will keep each other in touch and to meet together as friends and competitors in the sport of Tennis...as long as they keep it family-friendly, that is.
-End Flashback-
-HBSTC-
[Present time, at the Harukazé Milk Cow Ranch]
At a few minutes before 5 AM, Kasuga got up one morning on a beautiful spring day to be working on the ranch. As she stretches her limbs to try to come alive, she noticed that both Asuna and Naruto are up bright and early in their workclothes preparing to start the day right.
The Harukazé family (plus 1) have a daily routine in their ranch: round up the individually named Holstein Friesian cows to their stalls and feed them with hay and straw (with the complete abolition of using additional growth hormones and GMOs involved) for the equivalent exchange for the world to prosper. They also shoveled cowpats to be into special compost bins before packaging the by-product to the gardening stores for some extra change.
While Naruto and Kasuga pitched the hay into the feeding bins, they noticed some straw flying about. And sure enough, it was Asuna, who is not keeping her mind on the job and it's enough to give her mother a headache as she sports some tick-marks and yelled, "ASUNA~!", and she gave a dual noogie on her naughty daughter's cheeks and scolded, "What did I tell you, time and time again, not to be swinging the pitchfork inside the stalls‽"
"I'm sorry, Okaa-san (Momma)!" Asuna apologize though her squishy cheeks.
"Yaré yaré (Oh, brother)! Every day, it's the same thing," Naruto grumbled as he takes out a sweeping broom to clear up the mess that his cousin left behind.
-HBSTC-
Asuna and Naruto are now dressed in their Summer school uniforms (Navy Blue skirt, White and Navy Blue top, and a red ribbon for the girls and an All-Black uniform for the boys) and carrying their Tennis gear and schoolwork as they told Mrs. Harukazé that they're leaving home to get to their school early.
"We're starting morning practice today," Asuna explained.
"As the Assistant Manager, I must do my part in helping the team, Oba-san (Auntie)," Naruto added, "Besides, everyone agreed to have special training together."
"Is that right?" Kasuga questioned as she is a bit worried about her daughter and nephew, but they're growing up as they are heading to their school. So she gave the kids a word of encouragement, "Please be careful on your way."
"Un (Yeah)!" Naruto and Asuna replied with a grin as they are now on their way to Shiratama Junior High.
-HBSTC-
[En route to the school]
Naruto and Asuna are speeding their way at a steady pace. They have a tournament that's not until 2 months from now. They say that running to the school helps develop great stamina. Suddenly, a passing bus was outspeeding the two students. Asuna dared herself to outrun the bus and while she is feeling jolly and giddy, as she kept going and going and going... until she ran out of steam, looking like a certain Joe Boxer who had fought valiantly until the end, sitting down.
"Hee-hee..." (Don't worry, she's not dead. Just dead tired.)
Naruto ran near the bus stop for a moment as he sees Asuna took the fare as she hitched a ride.
"You'll be sorry, Asuna-neechan!" Naruto singsonged his warning as he resumed his running.
Asuna is clueless about what her cousin was saying, but she sat in her seat as the bus was driven to the next stop as she sees Naruto resumed jogging.
-HBSTC-
Kotoné is also jogging from her residence (while flaunting her green panties in the process) to Shiratama, when Naruto came by and greeted, "Good morning, Kotoné-san."
"And what's 'good' about it, Naruto-no-baka (dumb Naruto)!" the Summer girl complained, but then she noticed that Asuna is not with him. "Where's your cousin?"
The Namikazé said nothing but averted his eyes towards the oncoming bus passing by, with Asuna cheering them both from the open window, waving flags of Japan's colors, "Come on! Only 5 km to go! Japan, cha-cha-cha! Keep at it, keep at it, Japan!"
"This answer your question, Kotoné-san?" Naruto remarked as the bus halted at the Oizumi Farm stop.
Kotoné dragged the sorry Asuna out of the bus and she and Naruto gave the pinkette a noogie on her head with each of their fists as they gave her what for.
"Didn't you say we agree on running to train for the tournament?" Kotoné angrily argued.
"I told you, Nee-chan. You should be sorry," Naruto slightly growled as he scolded his cousin.
"For-forgive me-hee-hee!" Asuna sobbed as she took the consequence of being slothfully lazy.
-HBSTC-
[At the Shiratama Tennis Court]
It was 5 minutes 'til 6AM just as the students arrived to their school early. The Junior High building is rather empty in this hour of the morning. Of course, they wouldn't dare to come to the premises late at night, at least Kotoné doesn't want to.
When the entered the court, they spotted their manager lying down on a bench the entire night. Naruto quietly commented, "Mishi-sensei must've been half-shot from being with the barroom buddies again..."
The girls nodded in agreement and they woke the dozed-off teacher from his slumber. Mishi (28, Soft Tennis Club Advisor) was drooling as he was snoozing when he woke up with a headache. "Huh? Oh, it's you three."
"Man, why are you sleeping here, Mishi?" Kotoné questioned the slacker for a teacher.
Mishi thought for a moment and explained, "I was out drinking with the vice-principal last night. Anyway, what are you doing here in the school grounds so early? Um... Is it the exercises on the radio?"
"So close, yet so far, Sensei," Naruto deadpanned.
"We're having morning practices, remember?" Kotoné sweatdropped at the 'dry' humor, "Why don't you keep your facts straight like Naruto-no-baka does? You're the club advisor and the gym teacher, for heaven's sake."
{I don't know if you complementing me or not, Kotoné-san,} Naruto secretly irked at the Sawanatsu's contradiction.
The girls are preparing to change in the locker room while Naruto waited outside until they're done. He and Mishi wouldn't dare to peep on the half-naked beauties without just cause. But then, the Namikazé uses his sensitive hearing to overhear the conversation inside the room.
[Inside the changing room]
The girls noticed that Chitosé left a half-eaten rice bento left out in the open. The Akiyama must have been here earlier.
Then Asuna asked Kotoné if something happened to her with Mishi accidentally barged in and saw her in her green lingerie and then they are slowly, but surely began 'diving into some fun' in romance and 'get wet'...
"...like that!" Asuna surmised with a sense of ridiculousness.
"The hell with that!" Kotone angrily retorted as she puts her Tennis clothes on.
-HBSTC-
The girls have finished getting dressed as Naruto entered to get himself prepared.
Asuna wanted to see her cousin in action as she started to breathe heavily in her pangs of frustration. Kotoné refused to look (at first), because she thinks that Naruto isn't like Mishi in terms of charms, skills, and his "mushroom" but then she gave in as they see something remarkable: Naruto was removing his weights hidden in his uniform and put them into his locker; about 2 kilograms on both his wrists, 3 kilos on his ankles, and an additional 5 kilos around his waist. A total of 15 kilos (or about 33 lbs), about of third of his weight; but considering carrying his schoolwork and Tennis gear, they added a bit more to his body, making it even heavier! Then the girls realized that Naruto is a lot stronger than he looks, since they thought that the Namikazé is all flab, but what they saw is that Naruto is actually full of muscle, with absolutely no steroid therapies.
"Nii-chan was wearing them the whole time coming to the school?" Asuna silently exclaimed with a bloody nose.
"Ohmygawd, how much did the baka carry on him‽" Kotoné also exclaimed at the astonishment.
But just as they were about to see Naruto in his underwear, the Namikazé pulled the old-fashioned "quick change technique" as he wears his Tennis gear (Orange and Black Ainu-patterned Shorts, White shirt with Orange trimming and short sleeves, plus a headband cloth that he ties around his forehead like a famous fighter), telling the girls that the show's over.
(Note that Naruto doesn't wear the weights until school's over for the night and then he starts the day over again.)
-HBSTC-
Naruto left the locker room in his Tennis gear and a bucket full of soft Tennis balls in hand. He remembers that one time the Sawanatsu got mad at Asuna taking too long on getting the soft balls. And sure enough, the pinkette was goofing off, stacking the tennis racket and balancing the balls in it. Kotoné yelled, "WHAT THE F%#$!" and she charged forward and frustratingly kicked the bucket, ruining the so-called record.
Being the assistant manager (and the only male student) in the club does have its advantages...sometimes.
-HBSTC-
Asuna is practicing her form as test-swings her racket. She asked the advisor and cousin to see if her stride is right, but Mishi dryly deadpanned, "Not good. It's sucks so much."
Naruto dismally nodded in agreement.
The pinkette gasped at what they're saying. (Sucks so much‽)
Then Mishi explained the flaws, "Firstly, your legs are too close together. You can't make power shots with that stance."
Asuna thought that that her teacher is planning to do lewd and bad things with the Junior High girls, but Naruto stepped in and corrected the situation by demonstrating how the form is supposed to be like and helped fix her reflexes from her mistakes.
Kotoné thinks that the doofus (Naruto) is following the advisor's devilish advice, but realized that Asuna is actually being coached by the assistant manager and his techniques. Maybe Mishi was right all along. (But the Sawanatsu still couldn't fully trust Naruto, though. Wounded pride, perhaps?)
-HBSTC-
By the time the students took a breather, Asuna suddenly realized that Kurusu Fuyukawa still hasn't arrived and Chitosé is still A.W.O.L., and it's not for a toilet trip. She recounted the time when the upperclasswoman left a half-eaten bento on a chair in the locker room. Naruto thinks that Chicchan must be after something more than just a simple rice bento.
("Shima - - (Oh no - -)," Chitosé would utter out after the mistake.)
Kotoné deduces that Chitosé's absenteeism and the half-eaten dish could only mean one thing: she must've gotten a side dish by mistake and forgot the main courses. And they know when Chitosé gets hungry, she'll be hunting wild game or anything to make her meals from scratch.
Mishi then habitually puffs out a cigarette as he lets his students go out of the court and into the likeliest place where she stalks her prey: near the river outside of the school. The Soft Tennis party exited the grounds in search her their wayward upperclasswoman.
-HBSTC-
[The Forest Trail]
The trio hiked through the forestry until they came across the riverbank. They see Chitosé swimming in the river trying to take a morning dip to wake herself up.
"Just as I expected," Kotoné said as she sees a familiar figure in the water.
Just as Asuna was about to call out her sempai's name, they noticed the verdette in her naked glory (including the detailed parts of her big breasts and her trimmed womanhood) as she was holding a giant salamander in her clutches. The girls were both shocked and slightly jealous of their sempai's voluptuous physique, but Naruto averted his eyes as he passed the giant towel to the verdette and chided, "Oh, Chicchan, you promised... I told you leave the salamanders alone. You know that these kinds are an endangered species."
Chitosé sheepishly blushed as she wrapped her towel around her body and took her clothes as she and her team head back to the school.
-HBSTC-
[Back in the locker room]
The fully dressed Chitosé was asked by Kotoné about why is she doing in a place like the river, and the verdette answered, "Oh? About that, the river is so inviting. It was by chance that I came across a giant salamander while taking a dip..." (The girls were busy staring at Chitosé's curves.) "...then I just fooled around with it for a while."
Kotoné and Asuna gasped at Chitosé's big breasts while Naruto rolled his eyes at the verdette's excuse and then she worryingly queried, "What's with the reaction?"
"Um...Nothing," Asuna nervously replied.
"Eto, we just thought that based on your reputation, you were about to..." Kotone assumed.
"Oh, of course not," Chitosé coyly denied the claim, "I would never think about eating an endangered specimen. Kuhuhu huhuhu-huhu..."
{Oh? And is your drooling really backing up with your argument, Chicchan?} Naruto noticed the contradiction on his upperclasswoman's face, {What a spaz...}
-HBSTC-
[Back at the court]
This is the last year for Chitosé of Class 9-X before she goes to Senior High. The verdette asked her underclassmen how do they managed to get here and Asuna replied, "We ran all the way here."
"With a bus trip halfway along," Kotoné snarkly added, making the Harukazé feel embarrassed.
Asuna flustered as she explained about what happened after getting off the bus. She wanted to do her best for her upperclasswoman by reaching the goal of reaching the top 16 in the tournament. But Kotoné chided the pinkette that she is dreaming too lightly. What the brunette's goal to success is... to reach for a chance to go to Wimbledon. Asuna wanted to object, but couldn't. However, Chitosé agreed with one thing: make the goal as big as possible and to enjoy the journey to become one of the greatest of the tennis players. (Of course, the other members were still worried about their upperclasswoman's skills, especially passing through the preliminaries.)
Naruto said, "Well, I've been to Wimbledon a few times."
The girls and an eyebrow-raising Hiroshi were stunned at what their teammate had just said.
"How...how did you ever get there...without even going to the junior tryouts?" Kotoné questioned the blond assistant.
Naruto scratches the back of his head and explained that his parents are entrepreneurs and one of the many sponsors in the world of Tennis. They used to take him to England about every year for the tournaments in Wimbledon. He told them that he witnessed many different and tedious matches with people from all over the world; from the men's and women's Singles matches, to the Doubles Matches where two people from different nations must work together to challenge their opponents, to the Mixed Doubles match where men and women work together, and then there's the Junior Matches for the younger contestants. The blond Namikazé also said that one time, he volunteered for an exhibition match (single game) for the matches in front of a massive crowd and the TV. (He successfully performed the feat with great sportsmanship, giving the contenders a morale boost for their game.)
"Kazuko Sawamatsu and a few of our country's Tennis players have made it that far, then perhaps, why don't we try to match our skills like they do?" Naruto awe-inspiringly declared and the girls applauded their assistant manager for cheering them on. {Of course, they used the hard Tennis balls for the courts and not the soft balls... But should I tell them?}
Just then, Kurusu has just arrived in the courts with impeccable timing. Kotoné turned around and sees her 1st-Year teammate and was just about to scold her from being late, when the brunette noticed that the tanned bluette is wearing a yellow-frog head costume showing its ditzy expression that left her classmates stunned from the prattle.
"Getting cute with your hobby again, Kurusu-chan?" Naruto chided, "You're late, ya know!"
"Sorry, Naruto-sempai," the tanned bluette replied with an mezzo-soprano monotonous voice.
"Just don't let it happen again, Kurusu-chan. I forgive you for this," the blond manager hugged his underclassman as a form of 'punishment'. She knows that she always liked him. The other girls are wondering what's with the relationship between their assistant manager and the contender.
-HBSTC-
Kotoné holds the headpiece in her hands, wondering what the heck Kurusu has been doing. She thought that the bluette must have overslept, but Kurusu replied while sitting next to Naruto, getting her shoes tied, "Self-practice. I jogged about 20 km (about 12.5 miles), did a total of 500 swings on both arms, a 100 pushups, as well as back and ab exercises. Also did 4 sets of z-patterned sprints and sprinting in all directions. When I came to, I was already this late."
Kotoné ended being a fool of herself and wears the headpiece and muttered, "Ribbit..."
Naruto then concerningly said to her, "I know that you're a hard worker, Kurusu-chan, but you're still a growing girl. I'm worried that you're going to overwork your body just to get to where you wanted. I suggest that you should at least try to do your exercises a little lighter and try to be here on time."
"I sincerely apologize," Kurusu said while blushing with honesty.
Asuna is wondering why Kotoné was wearing the headpiece as the latter said, "I-if that's the case, you're forgiven this time, ribbit, ribbit, ribbit..." And then, she tossed the headpiece into the air and determinedly wanted to have a brief doubles match before school starts, with Naruto as the usual chair umpire. However, the assistant manager noticed that the clock showing that the homeroom sessions are about to start.
So, everybody in the courts have to get to class and Hiroshi has a staff meeting, while Asuna was so ambitiously ready to begin her part of the workout, but after so many delays, she was left behind in the lurch. And sure enough, the frog headpiece fell down from the gravity and covered her head in it.
-HBSTC-
And Asuna, dressed in her uniform, went to her 2nd Year Classroom, sitting next to the window, sighing that though she and her classmates came early, they didn't have a chance to play a match with each other, let alone, hitting the ball once. A tear of regret started to show in the pinkette's eye.
Oh, well...
›-Section Break-‹
Game 1-B
Of the Love of Tennis in a Hot Afternoon
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After the homeroom sessions were done, Asuna and Naruto got back into their Tennis gear as he carried the bucket full of soft balls when the pinkette tripped on the white line and blond manager was forced to drop the bucket, spilling its contents, while trying to catch his cousin from falling into an embarrassing predicament... but not without casualties. Naruto fell on his back, while Asuna stepped on a soft ball and landed with her panties on top of her cousin's pelvis.
"Nee-chan, could you get off of me, ya know?" Naruto demanded with a blush on his face, "We're cousins, for heaven's sake!"
While Asuna separated herself, she thought that she felt her younger cousin's manhood brushing against her panties as she landed on top of him. She began to imagine things that if she and Naruto weren't blood related, she wanted to get laid with him and enjoy the pleasure and pain of being a lover. But sadly, fate wasn't destined for her line of thinking.
-HBSTC-
As they were putting the soft balls into the bucket, Kotoné came by, thinking that they started practicing already, but Naruto explained what just happened...
The Sawanatsu learned that the scene was an accident and said, "So that's what. You were helping us out so much since last year and Asuna's normally so laid-back. How can you have a match what that gloomy attitude?"
"And she's right, Nee-chan," Naruto agreed, "The opponent will use that advantage to trick you and mess with your mojo."
Asuna thought that the opponent would use dirty tricks like messing with her skirt and flaunting her panties, crucifyingly tie her to the net, or even...
*Bam*
Naruto slightly smacked his cousin's head with his homemade harisen and said, "Come out of that stuff! We got work to do and short time to get there."
Asuna stopped breathing in a lewd manner and she and Kotoné began their practices with the assistant manager.
-HBSTC-
It was Asuna and Kotoné's turn as they smacked the soft ball at each other. That was when the pinkette swung her racket that made the ball go a little too high and the brunette jumped up and hit the ball as it flew over the fence and into the direction of the neighboring farm.
Chitosé was preoccupied with a Holstein cow as the soft ball bounced off her head. Naruto apologized as he was getting the loose ball. Then he asked, "Chicchan, what're you doing, ya know?"
"Huh? Oh, I'm squeezing some milk," Chitosé replied as she finished filling the bucket.
The Namikaze was stunned that his sempai did such a thing without the landowner's permission, so he swiftly and promptly asked the latter. After a few minute negotiation, Naruto thanked the landowner for the generosity and he took the milk-filled bucket back to the tennis court. Chitosé also showed Naruto a box of new white soft Tennis balls from her classroom teacher. As they walked, Naruto asked Chitosé about what is she doing with the milk and she replied, "I wanted to make some stew for dinner, maybe some milk ice cream, or even milk noodles... cheesecake, or even a thousand-layer cake."
{It's no wonder she eats so much and didn't show the off excess weight coming into her gut,} Naruto thought as he looked at Chitosé's physique, {She needed something to fuel off the energy needed for exercises. I guess the "assets" were just a given bonus.}
Then Naruto remembered a technique from his aunt about pasteurizing the raw milk, so he said to her that he'll have take the bucket into the portable kitchen and mini-fridge in the dressing room to make sure it's safe to use and to drink. He also told her to share some of the fond to the other girls, if they want some.
-HBSTC-
Naruto and Chitosé meet Asuna and Kotoné sitting on the bench, waiting for them to come back from their little field trip. The verdette gave the Sawanatsu the new ball set. After feeling grateful to Chitosé, Kotoné opened the box to reveal the new balls... with teeth marks on them.
"Chicchan?" Naruto deadpanned as he inspected the balls, "Care to explain why are the new balls have been bitten into?" Kotoné nodded in a deadpan expression.
"Well, you see," Chitosé blushed from her unashamed faux-pas, "Those balls looked really similar to rice mocchi."
"Wow, all of them have teeth marks!" Asuna pointed the obvious and the verdette chuckled.
{One of the these days, Chicchan,} Naruto grumbled, {I'm gonna make you control that ravenous stomach of yours!}
Kurusu arrived in the courts a little later, wearing an elephant headpiece.
"Yahoo..." she dully exclaimed.
{Did she get this from a pharmacy...?} Asuna thought to herself.
"And it looks like the gang's all here," Naruto remarked as he help put Kurusu's elephant headpiece away, next to the frog headpiece.
-HBSTC-
Mishi drilled the students and Naruto started out the training steps before letting the girls take their turns. The teacher explained how the ball goes back and forth quickly during a doubles match and how the players must work together to make the ball count. If the player gets tripped, the situation would likely turn up very badly. That's why the players have to train their hip and leg exercises.
Asuna began to have strange imaginations from getting trapped into something slimy and sticky, but Naruto called to Asuna, saying it's her turn to do her routine.
After a few rounds, Mishi ordered the students into groups, while Naruto waits on standby. Kotoné and Asuna are on one side of the court, while Kurusu and Chitosé take the other side. Asuna and Kotoné are a balanced team, but when it comes to servicing, Chitosé is the worst as she couldn't land a hit from Kurusu's throwing and tossing skills. So the bluette has a secret weapon under her shirt: a piece of rice mocchi and she tosses one and Chitosé ran like she is a canine and she chomped the flying food and ate it.
"Uh-huh, now I know why Chicchan couldn't keep her mind on the game," Naruto surmised the situation, "She's too focused with her eating. We're going to need a briefing."
And he asked Kurusu to let him take over for now until Chitosé gets up to speed. She consented and Naruto gathered the soft balls before tossing them. The Namikazé gave Chitosé a chastisement about working and eating, for he told her time and time again, "Quote. One who doesn't put an effort into working, does not eat. Unquote." The verdette tried to plead and beg and even offered her body to him, but Naruto sternly refused and said, "Just for that, I won't let up until you are shipshaped and properly ready for the big games, ya know!"
And he took his time and effort to whip the gluttonous verdette into shape. Kotoné and Asuna were hoping that they aren't going to be the next victims in Naruto's regiment, while Kurusu doesn't mind burning up a few calories, with "hearts" popping out from her sempai's integral responsibilities, despite her solitary expression. And Naruto isn't really a harsh person, he's more of a motivater; tearing down bad habits like a drill sergeant, and building up his clients' aspirations and all kinds of muscle like an evangelist.
-HBSTC-
Chitosé is exhausted from getting her skills getting tuned out and overhauled from her training. That was when Kotoné suggested an idea, "Say, how about having a match with a bottle of juice on the line?"
The other girls agreed for what they wanted, but Naruto...
"I'm afraid that I'll have to sit this one out," he said, "Got a minor project to do, so it should be done by the time the session will be done for the night." And he retreated to the locker room to pasteurize the raw milk so that it's safe to drink. He took a portable electric burner, a big empty pot, a candy thermometer, and used a bigger pot full of ice as the Namikazé prepared to do his work. After he finished cooling down the milk, Naruto puts the milk into sanitized bottles of formerly filled latté drinks and tightened them up with the cleaned lids.
By the time Naruto finished with the milk, he sees the girls ran to a bit of a problem losing one of their balls through the fence and into a cow's mouth. He carefully set the milk bottles down and ran over to command the bovine to drop the ball, "Look here... Eto... Erushi (Elsie)?"
It was the name on the bell that the cow was wearing.
"We wouldn't want any of your milk to go bad from eating a bad piece of chewing gum, so open your mouth, just like a good cow." After a few stubborn moments, Elsie the Cow spat out the ball, with cattle dribble all over it. Thankfully, the Namikazé uses his towel on hand to pick up the ball and washed it off later.
By the time he got back, Kotoné and Asuna drunk the milk with straws on hand. They were drinking it without much care. At least, it's a prized drink to have, when one doesn't have much pocket change, since Chitosé is the least valuable player who still managed to put in a better effort than she thought she did. As for Kurusu, she thanked Naruto and Chitosé for the milk and drank some, too.
"I...I can't drink it any more," Asuna dreadfully said after taking in so much at once.
So the students decided to call it a night and returned home.
-HBSTC-
[At the Harukazé Residences]
The day turned out better than Naruto and Asuna realized as they finished with their homework, helped with the chores, and washed themselves (in separate bathrooms and schedules) before turning in to bed. Naruto was preparing to go to sleep when Aunt Kasuga called the kids for help find Hanako, one of their cows escaping from her stall. Naruto brought out his lasso in his room to help rein in the ornery, two-toned bovine.
Yep, life is never dull at the Harukazé residence.
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A/N: This is one of the ideas of that came out of my head, what if Naruto is in the life as a civilian? And not just any civilian; a ranch hand and a tennis assistant manager in a school in Hokkaido. Yep, this is one of the many ideas that just popped up after watching the Softenni series on DVD. I try to keep the story close to canon, however, there are some slight deviations along the way. I'll just keep watching the show to keep me motivated to see how this rolls out
And the heat will be on!
-blukmage19