Ninja of The Cards

Chapter 2: WATERY situation (okay… bad pun… I know)

Sakura and Naruto (human form) went to the aquarium on a class field trip for Sakura's social studies class. Naruto used a genjutsu on the teacher in order to get in… Sakura frowned but Naruto gave her a puppy (fox) eyes

Sakura was looking at a tank of fish with Naruto right next to her, "Hey, these fish here are really cute, right Naruto-kun!?"Naruto said

"I guess." Naruto said as he looked around looking at the fishes

Sakura went up to another tank with a puffer fish, Naruto watching as Sakura tried to out puff a puffer fish. He laughed at Sakura's attempts… he thought it was cute and funny.

Tomoyo was filming when she heard Rika whisper to her and Naoko, "Hey, do you think they're together? They look good together"

Tomoyo quickly filled them in, "No, but I got a feeling they will be, they're really close." Rika and Naoko looked at Tomoyo with confused faces, all she did was smile.

Naruto then looked around after hearing the whispering, sweat dropping when he saw Tomoyo filming the whole thing, then turned to the door when he heard it open, seeing Chiharu walking in, "The penguin show is about to begin." Chiharu said

Tomoyo turned to Sakura to call her and Naruto, "Sakura-chan…"

She didn't get to finish as Sakura and Naruto went whizzing by, leaving a gust of trail wind behind them, Sakura wanting to see the penguin show, Naruto just wanting to keep up with Sakura, just in case.

They stopped at the door, Sakura raising her arm to her friends, "Come on guys, hurry!"

Sakura's friends except for Tomoyo stood there shocked at how fast the two moved, "T-They're so fast…" they said as they gasped

Sakura was chanting "Penguin, Penguin, Penguin" going up the escalator, making Naruto sweat drop

"She gets too excited about some things…" Naruto though as he shook his head

"I heard that!" Sakura looked over her shoulder, glaring at Naruto who still had his sweat drop, "Gomen…" Naruto said as he shrunk into himself

Sakura smiled and went back to chanting about the penguins again.

The group went to the tank and was applauding at the show, Naruto was not as excited as the others seeing as in his world could walk on water… a penguin show held little interest to him.

Everyone was enjoying the show, especially when one of the penguins jumped onto the podium and started bowing while the others waved its flipper swimming.

Everyone but Naruto was too busy to notice the water moving,

Naruto looked at the water with an intense stare, as if waiting for something to happen. It did

He watched as the water wrapped around the trainers leg, pulling her under.

Everyone watched as a penguin went up to the swirling water, getting pulled in by another strand of swirling water.

Sakura saw this and started beating against the glass trying to save the penguin while Naruto was looking for a way into the tank. "Damn, no door, guess I got to make one!"

"Sakura-chan, move!" Naruto shouted

Sakura turned to Naruto and backed up giving Naruto some room. Naruto cocked his fist back and was about to punch the glass when the door into the room opened

Touya walked in carrying to buckets of fish, dropping them when he saw the whirl pool and, "What in the world is going on!?"

The trainer looked up from the water at Touya, "The penguin got caught in the whirlpool. But I can't go save it! It almost dragged me in!"

Touya jumped into the water and looked at the penguin, seeing the water swirl around the penguin before grabbing the water, surprising Naruto. "No normal person can grab water, he must have powers like Sakura-chan…"

Naruto took a quick look at Sakura then back at Touya as Touya pulled the whirlpool apart, making a shock wave in the water. The group started clapping at the rescue while Sakura looked surprised to see her brother.

After the incident at the penguin tank, the group had to head home early.

Time skip: afternoon at home

Kero was floating over Sakura's shoulder as she mixed hot cake batter while Naruto was taking a shower.

"Someone almost drowned!? You, Sakura!?" Kero yelled in concern

"No, Kero-chan. You weren't really listening to me, were you?"Sakura said as she frowned at the little guardian

"I'm sorry. It's been a while since the last time everyone was gone and I could leave your room, so I'm a little restless." Kero excused himself

Naruto had walked in at this point, shaking his head of water while sitting at the table, "He's right, I was worried I was going to smell for another week, and with my sense of smell, that's really bad. " Naruto took a wiff of himself… finding his scent acceptable.

Sakura and Kero let out a laugh at this, then Kero got back on subject, "Come to think, you're right. There's no way you would drown, Sakura. You don't have much other than your athletic abilities."

Sakura was about to respond to Kero when a lightning-fast flying cracker nailed him on the head and into the wall. Sakura smiled and looked over to the table, "Thank you Naruto-kun."

"Sure." Kero got up muttering about Naruto and insults him before flying over to the table as Sakura finished cooking the hotcakes. Sakura stacked two plates and brought them to the table, putting one in front of Naruto and the other in front of her seat.

Naruto thanked her and started eating while the group talked about what happened at the aquarium, Kero started. "But it's even stranger to hear that the one who almost drowned was a penguin."

"Yeah, according to the adults, they were wondering if it was because the plug for the pool got accidently pulled out."Sakura said

"No." Naruto said with a tone of finality

Kero and Sakura looked at Naruto, who was holding up three fingers "One, if the plug had been pulled, the water would have been going down and it wouldn't have been strong enough to hold both the trainer and penguin. Two, your brother managed to grab the whirlpool, which is impossible by normal means, and pull it apart, and three, there was something familiar about how that water felt, right Sakura-chan?" Sakura nodded at the last one. "And if we add all three up, you can see that were dealing with…" Naruto finished leaving off the last part seeing if Sakura would catch on. Sakura stood up realizing what Naruto meant, "A Clow card!"

Naruto nodded and continued eating his hot cakes when all three heard Touya come in, "I'm home!"

Before anyone could blink, Naruto had eaten all of his hotcakes, put the plate away, and turned into his fox form.

Kero was stuffing and much hotcake as he could into his mouth before being grabbed by Sakura and tossed up the stairs. Naruto ran next to her and sat there watching Touya as he went by, ironically, Touya stopped to stare at Naruto.

"Welcome back." Sakura said.

Touya stopped staring at Naruto when he heard Sakura, continuing to the dining room. Naruto just watched, slightly toning out Sakura conversation with her brother about being at the aquarium, but listening for anything important

He couldn't help but laugh when Touya took a piece of Sakura's hotcakes without asking, making Sakura wave her arms franticly at Touya. Touya then called out to someone at the door, "Hey! What are you doing? Hurry up and come in!"

Sakura stopped waving her arms when she heard Touya, then stiffened at the voice from the door, "Sorry, sorry."

Naruto instantly know what was going to happen, toning it out knowing Sakura got weird around Yukito, "She acts the same way Hinata did around me, come to think of it, I never found out why she fainted all the time…" Naruto sweat dropped when he heard, "You're a bone head when it comes to women kit!" "Huh, what's that mean!?" Naruto didn't get an answer, so shrugged it off as Kyuubi messing him, seeing as he did every so often, then laughed when he saw Sakura stomped on Touya's foot for another teasing comment.

After a few minutes waiting for Sakura to make more hotcakes, he walked next to her up the stairs. She stopped in front of Touya's door, but had no way to knock. Naruto saw this, going up to the door and scratching it for Sakura, then sitting next to her. Sakura looked down at Naruto when he did that, "Thank you Naruto-kun." Naruto just nodded seeing as the door was opening with Yukito behind it, "Thank you Sakura-chan." Sakura just blushed and smiled while Yukito looked down to Naruto, who just looked bored. "You have a truly loyal friend Sakura-chan." Sakura snapped out of her daze, looking down at Naruto and smiling, "Yeah, yes I do."

After Yukito shut the door, Sakura and Naruto walked into her room to see Kero actually sitting and thinking. "Sakura-chan." Naruto asked

"Yeah?" Sakura answered

"Am I the only one seeing that?"Naruto said

"No."Sakura said

"Good, I thought it was just me" Sakura didn't respond to the last one, still slightly shocked at what they were seeing.

Kero looked up seeing Sakura and Naruto staring at him like he grew a second head, "What?!" Kero said slightly annoyed

The two quickly looked away, "Nothing." Naruto whistled

Kero just shrugged it off getting to the point of his thinking, "Hmmm… It might be a little tricky this time."

Sakura and Naruto sat in front of Kero while he talked, "Of course, I assume that both the trainer and the penguin nearly drowned in water." Sakura nodded.

"And when it was happening, did you see who was trying to drown them?" Sakura shook her head, "No, I saw nothing… Just water swirling around…"

Kero let out a sigh, "It's probably the water card… WATERY."

Sakura clapped her hands together, "Just as I thought!"

"Yeah, after I helped you along." Sakura got a sweat drop at Naruto's comment before getting back on track,

"So all I have to do is capture it and turn it back into a card!" Kero just shook his head, "It won't be that easy. Water inside water… You can't see WATERY with your eyes."

Naruto had turned into human form at this point, "So we just lure it out of the water."

"Even if you could pull it out of the water… If it disperses into tiny pieces, we can't really control it. It's hard to capture things with no solid shapes, like water… WATERY is also one of the higher magic spells in the Clow cards too. Furthermore, WATERY is an offensive card, so it's got quite a temper…" Naruto let out a yawn during the long explanation, "This reminds me of Iruka-sensei's lectures." Naruto though as his mind drifted elsewhere…

As Kero went on, Naruto slowly nodded off, putting his head on Sakura's shoulder, making her blush redder than a tomato. She looked over to Naruto still red, but saw he was out like a light and didn't want to wake him.

Kero finally saw that Sakura and Naruto weren't listening, "Hey! Are you listening!!" Sakura turned to Kero after carefully moving Naruto's head to her lap, "I am Kero-chan, but… I think you put Naruto-kun to sleep." She said as she sweat-dropped

"WHAT!!?" Naruto didn't even move at the loud noise, making Kero even angrier, "Hey! Listen when I'm explaining something!" Kero said

Naruto responded like most people to an alarm clock, by hitting Kero in his sleep. Sakura watched as suddenly Naruto turned back into his fox form curled up in Sakura's lap, her hand unconsciously going for Naruto ears, scratching them while he slept. Kero stood back up and was about to wake Naruto when Sakura stopped him, "Let him sleep, he looks really tired, and I'll let him know later."

Kero just sighed but nodded and finished explaining the situation.

Time skip: recess at school next day

Sakura was walking toward the school fountain lost in thought with Naruto next to her and Tomoyo behind. Sakura dipped her hands into the water, looking like she was trying to grab water with her hands. "Capturing water… How do I… But I have to hurry and catch the WATERY card…" Tomoyo had come up behind Sakura at this point, "You don't look so cheerful right now Sakura-chan."

Sakura eyes widen before turning around, "N-No, I'm fine..." Sakura said

"Don't lie." Sakura looked down at Naruto sitting next to her and before she could respond, Tomoyo grabbed her hands, "It looks like a great challenge, so typical for upholders of justice, has fallen on your shoulders." Naruto got a sweat drop when he heard this, Sakura chuckling nervously.

The group made their way to a slight wooded area, sitting there. Sakura was scratching Naruto's ears as they sat there out of habit while Tomoyo was sitting next to the two. "Oh, my… So it might be the fault of a Clow card after all."

"Yeah, but Kero-chan tells me that I can't catch it yet…" The group sat there for a while, heading home after school. Tomoyo was walking next to Sakura who was slowly rollerblading on the walkway through the park, Naruto right by her side. Sakura then speed ahead and stopped in front of Tomoyo, "Tomoyo-chan."Sakura said

"Yes.?" Tomoyo said, Sakura smiled before saying "Thank you for listening to my story." "That smile is best on you, Sakura-chan. Oh yes, this is for you, Sakura-chan" Tomoyo

Tomoyo pulled out two cell phones, "It's a new product from my mother's company. This one is for you and Naruto, and this one is for Kero-chan." Sakura just looked at the two phones with a curious face, "Are you sure I can borrow these?" Sakura asked, Naruto looked at the cellphones with curiosity

"Of course. My mother wants to know if they're easy to use as well." Tomoyo said.

Sakura stood there for a second before holding the phones to her chest, "Thank you for worrying about me." Sakura said

Naruto just sat there with a sweat drop, "I swear I'm invisible sometimes." He shook his head as for emphasis.

As the group exited the park, Tomoyo separated from Sakura, having to go another way. As Sakura and Naruto went down the road, Sakura was having a flashback to yesterday with Kero.

Flash back:

"But… If I combine the three cards, I can somehow…" Sakura said

Kero was sitting in front of Sakura, "No, No good. With just the cards you have Sakura, it's no use no matter what you do." Kero just shook his head in a negative way.

"Man… I sure wish I could have studied water jutsus… should have paid more attention to our fight with Zabusa" Naruto said as he scratched his head

End of flash back:

"But the WATERY card… is right over there. It's a soo frustrating…" Sakura said

"So we just need to figure out how to catch it." Naruto said in his thoughts to Sakura

Sakura took a quick glance at her backpack that Naruto was in. "But Kero-chan said…"

"Forget what he said! It's not that we can't catch it, but that we don't know how to. If we figure that out, we're set!" Naruto said

Sakura smiled at Naruto optimism, "You're right Naruto-kun! But how do we capture WATERY?" Sakura said

"… I haven't figured that out yet…" Naruto said with a sweat-drop

Sakura sighted, having a feeling something like that was coming.

As she turned around the corner, Sakura didn't notice Yukito on the walk way. She looked up just in time to avoid hitting him, but lost her balance falling, only to get caught by the person she avoided. Sakura looked up to see Yukito helping her back up. As soon as Naruto caught Yukito's scent, he toned out everything, thinking to himself while Sakura talked to Yukito.

"Say Sakura… I got some tickets for an aquarium…. I was wondering if you would like to come with me" Yukito said

"Reeealy? I am so glad! Of course I'll come" Sakura said

"I wonder how everyone back at the village is doing, I can't go back to let them know I'm alright, I don't even know if I can summon… That's it! I can summon a toad to bring them a message!" As soon as Naruto finished that thought, Sakura took for home doing all kinds of spins, with Naruto still in her bag. After she got home, taking of her skating gear, she ran into her room swinging her back like no tomorrow, having completely forgetting Naruto was in her bag.

Sakura had gone into her room, sliding down the door with a blush and smile while Naruto slowly crawled out of her bag, barely making it to a pillow before falling over dizzy. Sakura was laying on her bed leaving a message on Tomoyo's machine while Kero flew over to Naruto,

"Hey, you ok?" Naruto just shook his head for a second, still dizzy all his fur turned into a sickish green

After finishing leaving her message, Sakura looked over at Naruto, who had turned slightly green, still on the pillow, "Naruto-kun, are you ok? What happen?" Sakura asked

"Yeah and you forgot I was in your bag when you went for a spin, then ran through the house swinging it like no tomorrow." Naruto though as he put his front paw to his mouth

Sakura blushed in embarrassment, but had a sad look on her face, "Gomen."

Naruto managed to sit up, dizziness going away, "It's ok, just let me out before you do that next time." Sakura let a small laugh as Naruto was smiling at her, telling her it was a joke.

Naruto then remembered his thought while in the bag. He turned to human form, found a piece of paper and pen, writing a letter before holding it up and tucking under his arm, "Now let's hope this works."

Sakura and Kero just look at Naruto with confusion on their faces as he bit his finger, drawing blood, and doing hand signs, slamming his palm on the floor after he finished, "Kuchiyose no jutsu."

A big puff of smoke appeared before revealing Gamakichi, "Hey! Naruto! Where have you been! Jiraiya has been summoning us like crazy trying to find you!"

Naruto just scratched the back of his head, "Yeah, sorry about that, but this letter will explain everything, bring to Jiraiya will ya."

Gamakichi sighed but nodded, taking the letter. Naruto then got an idea, "Hang on a sec."

Gamakichi looked around the room as Naruto got another piece of paper, drawing something on it.

Gamakichi then saw Sakura and Kero, "Hi, the name's Gamakichi."

Sakura just started in awe at the talking toad in her opinion before realizing he was speaking to her, "Ah! Gomen! I'm Sakura Kinomoto!" She said giving a polite bow.

Gamakichi then looked at Kero, "Nice plush toy, but how does it float?" Kero got worked up at being called a plush toy, "I'm not a plush toy! I'm Kerberos! The guardian of the Clow cards!" Gamakichi just sweat drop at Kero's name, "Kerberos? You like nothing like your name would imply."

Kero was fuming at hearing that while Sakura sweat dropped looking between the two, Gamakichi was just laughing.

Naruto had finished with the second letter, grabbing Gamakichi and handing to him, "Here, be sure to give this to Sasuke, and when he gets it…" Naruto whispered the rest, making Gamakichi give an evil chuckle, "Oh, so that's what it is, this is going to be good. I'll try to get pictures for ya."

"Thanks Gamakichi."Naruto said

"No problem. But one more thing, is she your…" Gamakichi was about to raise his pinky, but Naruto slammed his fist over Gamakichi's head, making him poof back to the summon world. Sakura was still watching in awe before asking Naruto what was on her mind.

"Naruto-kun, what was that just now?" Sakura saked

"Hm?" Naruto turned back to Sakura, remembering that he forgot to explain what he just did, "Oh, you see back in my home world, some ninja's can summon a specific animal if they sign a certain contract. I signed the toad contract, so I can summons toads like Gamakichi."

"Hhhoooeee! Amazing!" Naruto just shrugged, "I guess, some of the toads have a big attitude, Like the summoning boss Gamabunta, he really is fickle and a pain in the ass."

Scene change: summon world

"Acho! Someone must be talking about me." Gamabunta was sitting at a poker table playing some of the other summon bosses. "Read'em and weep guys, full house!" Gamabunta went for the pot as three of the other bosses tossed their cards down. "Not so fast Gama, Royal Flush!" The dog boss showed his hand, then took the pot from the middle of the table while Gamabunta scoffed, "I need to learn when to stop when I'm ahead, I'm starting to become like Tsunade."

Scene change: Hokage office in Kohona

"Acho! Someone is talking about me." Tsunade sighed as she continued the never ending paper work. "You know, I miss that gaiki busting in, gave me a good excuse for a break."

"I know what you mean lady Tsunade." Shizune said

Tsunade turned to the window to see Jiraiya sitting there. "So any luck with finding Naruto?" Jiraiya shook his head,

"It's like he vanished of the face of the earth. Knowing that gaiki, he's either on another world or right under our noses…" Jiraiya suddenly felt a tug in his mind, "One second." Jiraiya did the hands signs for the summoning jutsu, summoning Gamakichi. "Yo, I got a letter from Naruto." Gamakichi said pulling out two letters, one being blank and the other address to Jiraiya and Tsunade. Jiraiya was about to open the letter when Tsunade took it from him before he could blink, already reading it.

She smiled for one second before frowning the next. Jiraiya tried to read the letter over her shoulder, but only got a punch to the face into the wall. Tsunade took a calming breath before pulling Jiraiya out of the wall, "Jiraiya, go get the Kohona twelve and the sensei's." Tsunade then threw Jiraiya out the window and waited, everyone showing up in record time, Kakashi even being early for once, shocking everyone.

"Ok, although I'm sure Jiraiya already told you, I called you all her because we got a letter from Naruto just a moment ago." Everyone gasped, showing Jiraiya hadn't said a word about it. "I'll read out the letter, so don't bother peaking." Tsunade glared at Jiraiya, who hid behind Kakashi trying to avoid Tsunade's wrath.

(the letter is being read out-loud but is used with italics meaning that is like Naruto is speaking)

"Hey everyone, I'm sure that Ero-sennin was sent to get you after Obaa-chan sent him after you. Just so you know, I'm fine…" Everyone let out a held breath after hearing that. "But I won't be coming back to Kohona." That shocked everyone, knowing Naruto would never abandon Kohona. "Before you even think it, I didn't abandon Kohona, I have a few reason's to not go back, one is that I'm sure the counsel announced that I'm dead, so coming back wouldn't sit well. Two, I'm not sure if they did reveal the Kyuubi, but he turned me into a hanyou. And Three, I'm in another dimension."

Everyone became more shocked with every reason, surprised that Naruto knew so even though he wasn't there.

"Before you ask, I don't know if I have a way back and if I do have one it must have a power similar to when Sasuke and I collided at the waterfall. Our attacks tore a rift in space sucking me in, making Kyuubi turned me into a hanyou to stop the rift from tarring me apart. Also I don't blame you Sasuke, I blame the snake, so stop being more emo than usual."

Everyone let out a loose chuckle at Naruto's bluntness.

"Besides, I'm happy here, no one except for three people know about Kyuubi, and the ones that know are my friends. Also I need two favors Obaa-chan, one is some more kunai and shuriken and a couple jutsu scrolls. Second is to give the blank chakra note to Sasuke."

"That's it, and here Sasuke."

Sasuke took the note, pumping a small amount of chakra into the note, revealing a paper bomb. Everyone jumped back as it exploded, the smoke clearing to reveal a naked Sasuke with "I may not blame you, but I'm still getting you back for that Chidori!" on his chest. Everyone backed up some more reading that, knowing Naruto was Kohona's master prankster for a reason. The crowd turned to Gamakichi when they heard the window open, who was smiling evilly before taking a deep breath, "SASUKE IS NAKED IN THE HOKAGE OFFICE!!"

Sasuke paled when he heard this, getting hit with a ton of bricks at what Naruto was doing, "Naruto, you sadistic bastard." Sasuke though

Everyone but Sakura, Ino, and Shikamaru wondered why Sasuke said that when everyone heard what sounded like a stampede. They looked out the window to see a large group of rabid FANGIRLS! Sasuke bolted out of the office like a bat out of hell trying to escape the determined fangirls. Everyone couldn't help but laugh when Sasuke was caught, each limb being pulled like a tug-of-war match. "Something's about that gaki will never change." Tsunade thought.

Everyone was still do busy laughing to agree, but all felt the same way.

Time skip: couple hours later, back with Naruto and Sakura

"Ok, tomorrow I scope out the back of the aquarium while Sakura is with Yukito."Naruto said

Sakura nodded smiling, thinking about tomorrow. Naruto was wondering to himself, slightly remembering her conversation with Yukito, "I wonder why she's calling it a date when Yukito is just thanking her for the hotcakes…" Naruto thought to himself

"I worry about you sometimes kit." Kyuuby said to Naruto

Naruto just wondered why Kyuubi would say that when he felt a tug at his mind. "One sec guys." Sakura and Kero stopped talking and looked at Naruto as he resummoned Gamakichi, who had a medium sized scroll on his back

"Hey Naruto, here are the supplies you asked Ero-sennin for, and photos of Sasuke after he finally got away from the fangirls." Gamagichi said

"Thanks." Naruto said

Naruto took the scroll and photos, getting a very good laugh at Sasuke in a full body cast signed by every fangirl that caused his pain. Naruto tucked the photos away saying goodbye to Gamakichi, who poofed away, and unrolled the scroll.

Sakura and Kero leaned over it curious of what was on it.

"They're seals." Naruto told them when he saw the confused look on their face, but only confused them more. "They hold items or can affect your body in many ways, like how Kyuubi is sealed inside me." This made the confusion lighten up, so Naruto decided to show them, "Watch." Naruto put his hand onto the first of four seals, pumping some chakra into it. The seal released, revealing an envelope.

Naruto opened the letter and read it:

"Naruto, we all understand your reasons for not coming back. It saddens us all, but we know you are happy, so we will cope with your decision. And nice prank on Sasuke, even though he doesn't agree. Here are the supplies you asked for, and a special gift in the last one, don't continue reading until you see it."

Naruto folded the letter, putting in on his lap as he unsealed the second seal, revealing a large set of kunai and shuriken.

Naruto loaded the shuriken in his holster first while Sakura took a kunai to look at, "Hey Naruto-kun, didn't you use these against SHADOW?"

Naruto looked up to see Sakura holding a kunai with a reverse grip, "Yeah, be careful with them though, they're very sharp." Sakura nodded, but wanted to see just how sharp they were, so she ran her finger over the edge, just barely touching it. It drew blood, "Hoe! I barely touched it!" Naruto then sucked Sakura's finger… "Don't worry my saliva will speed the healing

Sakura blushed but it was missed by Naruto and Kero

Naruto then finished explaining how to use seals to Kero, "So you can seal anything with the right seal and it won't affect the scrolls size or weight?" Kero asked

"Yup, except for the ink, which isn't much." Naruto said

Sakura walked in just as Naruto finished, seeing he had put all his shuriken and kunai away. Naruto then unsealed the third scroll as Sakura sat next to him, wondering what this one was.

The smoke cleared showing a few scrolls, "Ninja technique scrolls." Sakura and Kero nodded, not needing an explanation for that having seen Naruto use rasangan before.

Naruto put the scrolls away, using the desk Sakura pointed too so he wouldn't have to always carry them around.

Naruto went for the last seal, which revealed a katana with a three and a half foot edge with a half foot hilt.

Naruto stared at the sword, then lifted his letter and continued reading it, "If you reading this part of the letter, than you got to the katana. This katana was custom forged for you, amazingly in a few hours. It can use all five elements, the third scroll has sword training techniques for you to look at. One more thing, the blade of the katana can vanish into the hilt for easy storage. We all miss you and wish you the best, your friends…"

At the bottom of the letter was signed by all his friends and people whose respect he had gained, even Hinata's father and sister, Hiashi and Hanabi. Naruto was shocked by all the signatures and started shedding tears of joy.

"What's wrong Naruto-kun?" Naruto just handed her the letter and as Sakura read it, she smiled hugging Naruto,

"I'm happy for you Naruto-kun." Sakura said Naruto hugged her back, calming down a little while later. That night, Naruto had one of the best nights of sleep in his entire life.

Time skip: That afternoon

Sakura had gone on to meet up with Yukito while Naruto went to the aquarium. Naruto had already snuck into the back of the aquarium, walking through the rooms finding the penguin tank.

He opened the door and looked into the room, only to find the tank empty, "Damn, they must have drained it, now… where to look." Naruto continued looking around the aquarium, dodging the couple of employees as they came by. As Naruto walked down the hall, he noticed an air duct, "Well, it's better than getting caught…" Naruto called into the air duct, going from room to room at a slower pace, but not catching unwanted attention. He came to the final room which had a big tank and what looked like a restaurant on the bottom floor.

Naruto slipped out of the ducts and onto the raptors on the ceiling, staying in the shadow spots, "Ok, the card has to be somewhere in this room, but with some many people, I can't do a good search. Oh well, guess I'll wait."

Naruto walked around the raptors some more, not seeing anything suspicious. He was about to rest when he heard a familiar voice shouting, "Amazing! Amazing!! Amazing!!" Naruto looked down, seeing Sakura and Yukito at the giant tank, then head down to the restaurant.

Naruto had a sweat drop when he saw them, wondering what the odds of that happening were. Naruto watched as they got to a table, then saw Touya as a waiter.

"How many jobs does this guy have!?" Naruto wondered

Seeing Yukito distracted, Naruto had a chat with Sakura, "Sakura-chan."Naruto said telepathically

"Naruto-kun? Where are you?" Sakura asked

"On the raptors in the ceiling. I checked every tank but this one, so either I missed it or it's in this room."Narto said

"This room?" Sakura said "Yeah, so keep an eye out." Naruto warned

"Ok."Sakura said

Sakura and Naruto ended the chat just in time for Yukito to tell Sakura about the snow cones they had at the restaurant.

"Snow-cones… ice…"Sakura though…

"Something up Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked

"…" Sakura did not answer… she was deep in though

Naruto didn't get an answer, so shrugged it off as deep thought.

He was about to relax when the sound of cracking glass caught his ear.

He looked down just as the big fish tank broke open, letting water pour over the people on the bottom floor.

Naruto transformed and jumped up to his feet and dived into the water, shocking the crowd.

Sakura was being held under by WATERY, and as soon as Naruto hit the water, he swam over to Sakura. "Naruto-kun! What are you..." Sakura said

"Saving you!!" Naruto though as he grabbed WATERY, pulling it apart making it give a shock wave mush like it did with Touya, but this time WATERY recovered faster, wrapping around Naruto's neck. Naruto and Sakura tried to pull it off again, but Sakura wasn't strong enough and Naruto couldn't get a good enough grip with it around his neck.

Sakura then began to run out of air, having to surface to breathe.

Touya had swam over as soon as Sakura surfaced, taking her to the stairs. "NO! Naruto-kun needs help!" Sakura yelled as she struggled to go back for him

"Naruto? You brought your fox?"Touya said bewildered

"NO! My friend Naruto-kun! He got stuck after getting me free!" Sakura said with tear in her eyes.

That was all Touya needed to go and help Naruto while Tomoyo watched over Sakura.

Touya dove back under looking for anyone, seeing Naruto with WATERY around his neck. Touya swam over and grabbed WATERY, pulling along with Naruto, freeing him from the vortex of water.

Sakura was standing on the stairs waiting for Touya and Naruto to surface after a few minutes, who did just that as the water started going down thanks to Yukito for busting a door open with an axe from a fire cabinet. Touya helped Naruto to the stairs and set him down at the base before going up to Yukito while Sakura came to check up on Naruto, "Naruto-kun! Are you alright!?"Sakura ran up really worried for him

Naruto nodded, still coughing a little, "Yeah, it's going to take more than some water to get rid of me." He said as he smirked

Sakura frowned at Naruto's attempt at a joke, hugging him with tears falling, "Don't joke around like that! I… I thought that…" Sakura didn't get to finish as Naruto hugged her back, making her calmed down almost instantly, "I'm sorry Sakura-chan, I didn't mean to upset you. I promise I won't do it again." Naruto said

Sakura smiled still hugging him, glad he wasn't going to take his life so lightly again. Tomoyo had been standing there, getting the whole thing on film. Sakura and Naruto separated after Sakura had fully calmed down, then looked up to see Tomoyo filming, making both get a sweat drop. Tomoyo came down to them, Kero popping out of her hat, "What happened down there!?" He asked in a whisper.

Sakura explained before Naruto could, "WATERY broke the tank and held me under. Naruto-kun dove in and freed me, but got caught by WATERY by the neck. I tied to help him but…" Sakura looked down in shame realizing she wasn't able to help Naruto, who caught onto what she was thinking. "Don't blame yourself Sakura-chan, it was just too strong, but everything worked ou- ou- Acho! Man it feels like that water was sitting in ice all day!"

Sakura looked at Naruto when he said ice. "Ice… That's it!"Sakura though in realization"Naruto-kun, that's it!" Sakura said

"Huh?"Naruto was confussed

"Ice! We can freeze WATERY! That should make it easy to capture!"Sakura said

"Hey, yeah!" Kero said as he took some time to give the plan some thought, "It might work, but where are we going to get something that cold?" Kero said

Sakura smiled when she heard that, "Leave that to me! By the way…" Sakura pointed to Tomoyo and Kero, "What are you two doing here!?"

Naruto looked at Tomoyo and Kero, curious for an answer as well, but only got a nervous laugh from them both before Kero had to hide. Naruto got a sweat drop from their answer, "I think they were spying on you Sakura-chan…" Naruto saidSakura had her own sweat drop, which just got bigger when she heard Naruto, "M-Maybe…" Naruto turned when he heard footsteps, Sakura doing the same when she heard them, seeing Yukito walk up to them with Touya behind him.

"Are you all right, Sakura-chan?" Yukito asked

"Yes, thanks to Naruto-kun." Sakura said.

Yukito turned to Naruto when he heard this, "And thank you for saving Sakura-chan, I can see why she named her fox after you."

Sakura's and Naruto's sweat drop returned when they heard this, wondering where he got that from.

Touya then came up to Naruto, he had a stern look on his face "Hey, thanks for saving my sister." Touya then held his hand out, which Naruto shook, "No problem." Naruto said

Sakura looked a little surprised to see Touya being this friendly with Naruto, seeing as he never really liked of her boy classmates.

After the incident with the big tank, the aquarium closed down for the day, making everyone have to go home.

On the way back, Naruto went a separate way saying he lived that way since he couldn't change forms in front of Touya.

Sakura had gone into her room to see Naruto already dry and napping on her bed. She just smiled, went to change, and waited for Naruto to wake up to go to the aquarium.

Time skip: that night at aquarium

Sakura, Naruto, Tomoyo, and Kero had snuck passed the guard at the door and were on their way to WATERY, Tomoyo going down stairs to look for something for the plan.

"That was one oblivious guard, we walked right passed him." Kero said

"Yeah." Sakura just sighed when she heard this, seeing as she didn't want to have to sneak in, but had no choice to catch WATERY. Sakura ran down the hall, wearing a white jester gymnast like shirt, blue gloves stopping just below her shoulder, and blue shoes. The points on the costume had yellow balls symbolizing bells, since real bells would make noise.

Sakura, Naruto, and Kero went up to the employ door on the second floor, stopping in front of the top of a fish tank.

"Here?"Sakura asked

"Yeah, this is where the magic is the strongest."Kero said

Naruto pulled out his katana, ready for the card, "Then let's go."Naruto said

Sakura backed away from the tank, pulling out her cell phone to call Tomoyo, who was on the basement floor, "Yes, Daidouji here." Tomoyo answered "Did you find it?" Sakura asked

"Bingo, First floor basement."Tomoyo said in a cheery voice

"All right! Then hide somewhere!" Sakura said

Sakura put the phone away, jumping onto the edge of the tank twirling her staff, "WATERY! Come and get us if you can!" Sakura taunted

The water swirled for a second before erupting out of the tank. Sakura pulled out the FLY card, "FLY!" Sakura flew while Naruto ran, leading the trail of water down the hall and a flight of stairs. At the end of the stairs, WATERY launch itself like missiles, making Naruto jump and do acrobatic finally ending on him grabbing onto the end of the staff gripping it with chakra so not to fall and deflect the water with his sword.

He got his a couple times, but kept the water away from Sakura. After the projectiles stop coming, WATERY having dispersed into many pieces before regrouping itself, they went down the hallway to the basement.

Naruto noticed the card was lagging behind, so to speed it up, and wanting to get a kick out of this, he stuck his tongue out holding one eyelid down.

It worked, as WATERY picked up speed just as Sakura went down the flight of stairs to the basement.

The two stopped in front of the basement freezer, WATERY stopping also, blocking the exit. "WINDY!"

WINDY came out of the card, going around the room in circles trying to open the freezer door. Seeing the card needed a little help, Naruto tried using wind from his sword, spinning in a circle while swinging, giving the wind the extra push it needed to open the door to the freezer.

WINDY then flew into the freezer drawing WATERY with it, making Naruto grab Sakura and jump out of the way. After WATERY was drawn all the way in, clearly not happy, Naruto smiled before closing the door, trapping WATERY while WINDY started a blizzard inside the freezer.

Sakura and Naruto sat against the door, both breathing a sigh of relief, "I think I made it too mad with the eye thing."Naruto said

"Yeah." Sakura said in agreement

Then Kero and Tomoyo came up to them, "That was nice you two! If you freeze water, it's easy to capture it!" Sakura looked up at Kero, "I remembered Yukito saying that there was a fridge here to store animal food… Thank you too, Tomoyo-chan." Tomoyo, still filming since the whole thing started, smiled, "I'm glad I could be of use to you."Tomoyo said

She looked at her watch, "Now, it should be about done…" Sakura and Naruto stood up, Naruto pulling the door open and looking in, "A WATERY ice sculpture…" Naruto whistled as he saw the sculpture

Sakura then began her spell, "Return to the guise you were meant to be in! Clow card!"

Everyone watched as all the ice was broken apart by a vacuum whirlwind, drawing all the pieces into the card before returning to normal.

Kero decided to ask the question on his mind, "But how did you ever come up it?"

"It's all thank to Yukito-san and Naruto-kun." Sakura finished looking at Naruto, "If you hadn't mention water sitting in ice, I would have never thought of this!" Naruto just shook his head, "You give me way too much credit Sakura-chan, anyway, let's go home before the guards start making rounds."

Everyone nodded, making their way to the exit, not surprised to see the guard asleep as they left.

"Say Kero…I got a question" Naruto asked

"What is it?" Kero asked

"Could it be possible for me to use Clow cards or to have them used on me?" Naruto asked

"Uhmm… as far as I am concerned I don't know… I never even thought you might even have magic power… thought I did detect some when you summoned the frog… and when you used the rasengan… but nothing after that" Kero said in deep though

"Say kyuubi… what do you have to say about this?" Naruto asked

"Uhmmm… I have never used magic… since I am a being of chakra… but if I am correct chakra can be used as a substitute " Kyuubi stated

"UHmmm I see so… then Naruto could also use cards if he could capture them… since he is more suited for combat… he could use the combat cards… whereas Sakura could provide backup from the rear with defensive spells!" Kero said

"Yeah… and after I am done Sakura could seal them" Naruto said

"That is great! That means this will become easier…" Sakura said

"Not so fast… he could use them… however… there is still a chance that even so… he could not be able to use the cards… we should test it out first" Kero said

Sakura handed the FLY card to Naruto… who pumped chakra in the card

"FLY!" Naruto said

And the… suddenly… from his back… a dozen wings (3 in each side) appeared on him…

"Wow!!" Tomoyo said surprised Naruto loked like an angel…

Naruto did a few acrobatics while flying… he then flew up into the sky and did a bomber dive… as he pulled from the ground just in time… stopping in front of Sakura

Sakura just stared at him… as he stared at her back…Sakura was blushing but this was unnoticed by Naruto… Tomoyo was still filming all of this

"Let's go back home" Naruto said as he extended his hand to Sakura

Sakura timidly handed her hand to Naruto who carried her bridal style and flew away with her… Kerbers close by while Tomoyo was picked up by her bodyguards

End Chapter 2