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Watson85 = a drinking contest between Tsunade and kazehana is gonna be a thing. I was thinking that Tsunade would help kazehana really develop that drinking habit. As for Yakumo possibly I'll see.
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Naruto was thrown to the floor once again by Jiraiya. If teaching Naruto how to summon toads taught him anything it was that the kid only learned by doing. Naruto once again kipped back onto his feet before charging forward his hands coming into a familiar cross shaped seal. Serval shadow clones coming into existence around him, with that Naruto, stopped mid step grabbing two clones' arms and spinning in place.
"Uzumaki clone missile" he shouted realising the two clones the shoot forward. However, Jiraiya would not fall for such a tactic as the clones closed in he turned his body to the right, raising his leg he ended one with a geta to the face. While the second clone was grabbed spun around and throw back at two more Naruto clones flying at him. From the smoke of all the destroyed clones came Naruto in a quick dash. Kunai in hand his fist shoot forward in an attempt to impale the white-haired man, this was halted by a fist to the head halting the boys movement sending him to the floor. The Naruto on the floor then exploded into a cloud of smoke and the kunai transformed into the real Naruto who attempted to land a powerful uppercut. Unfortunately, his fist was caught he was then lifted over the toad sages head and thrown across the clearing.
This time Naruto orientated himself in the air to land on his feet. Landing in a crouch he prepared to re-engage his older foe.
Kazehana watched from the sidelines as her love had his ass handed to him by the man he called the pervy sage. She wanted to help, but Jiraiya had banned her. She looked over to the other side of the clearing to see two other ninjas watching her loves training, if she had remembered correctly they were the guards that she meet at the gate the day she met him.
"So you think he will do it," Kotetsu asked his long-time friend and partner. "I don't know lord Jiraiya is a legendary ninja, I don't think most Chūnin could land a hit on him let alone a Genin" Izumo replied in a relaxed tone. Kotetsu then looked across the training field to see a beautiful woman sitting their 'man that's the second day she has been here I wonder if she is with lord Jiraiya'. "Hey, Izumo do you know who that woman is" Kotetsu queried. "No I don't but I do remember letting her into the village a few days ago" he answered his friend. Before they could talk on the topic further there was an explosion, with that they turned back to the battle occurring in front of them after all they had a bet on it.
When the pervy sage said he would teach Naruto some Taijutsu he was expecting to be taught cool ninja fighting moves. In reality, he had come into the clearing and pervy sage had told him that he needed to land a hit on him then he would teach him some moves. With that Naruto went all in, for the last two days he had been unable to land a hit no matter what he tried the older man seemed to have an answer to his every move. However the more he tried the closer he got and the moment he was about to land a hit the man's skill seemed to take a jump and he was back to square one. With that in mind, Naruto enacted his latest plan.
Placing his hand in a cross seal he cried "Tajū kage bunshin Jutsu (multi shadow clone Jutsu)" with that there was a massive cloud of smoke. Obscuring everyone's vision, next half of the clones went though some hand signs and they transformed into Fuma shuriken. These were then thrown towards the white haired man. They shoot from the cloud of smoke towards the man. Jiraiya then made a flew hand seals before slamming his hands to the ground and a wall of earth erected itself in front of him halting the rain of weapons.
Naruto prepared to charge once more when an alarm clock went off signalling the end of his training with Jiraiya. With that Naruto fell to the floor in exhaustion, pervy sage was brutal when it came to training. The blonde's vision was obscured by a familiar figure he couldn't help but smile, it was nice having someone who really worried about him even above themselves not many people cared so much about him. On that train of thought 'I should take her there and introduce her to them' he thought to himself.
"Hey kazehana-chan wanna go out to eat for lunch today, I mean if you wanna," he asked shyly. He looked up to see a beautiful smile on her face "are you asking me out Naru-kun of course I do" she replied in a jovial tone. With that, she leaned down and placed a kiss on the blonde's lips.
"Man did you just see that she just kissed Naruto, man we got to start a betting pool on this" Kotetsu said in excitement to his partner. "Oh come on even he gets a girl before me, man this sucks" Izumo muttered to himself dejectedly. With that said the two Chūnin watched as Naruto and the mysterious woman left the training grounds. With that, they also left after all they had guard duty today again.
It took them about ten minutes to reach their destination. Naruto walked up to the small stand known as Ichiraku ramen and brushed aside the flaps of the stand with his left hand while his right hand held Kazehana's. He led her in making sure she took a seat before he took a seat. The blue-eyed boy then turned to Kazehana. "I know it's not much, but this is my favourite place to eat in the world," he said, she smiled before responding "I love it seems to be a very cosy place".
However any further conversation was halted by the opening of a door from what looked to be a storage room, from this room came an brunet what looked to be a waitress she held up her hand in greeting to Naruto, before turning to see another woman sitting next to him their hands joined together. Her eyes widened and like a dam words flowed forth. "Oh my god Naruto you're holding her hand, is she, are you, oh my god that's fantastic Naruto" she squealed in excitement. She then turned and towards the storage room and shouted "Dad, Naruto-kun brought a girl and she is really pretty" there was a loud thud followed by groaning.
Meanwhile, Ayame turned back to kazehana this time with a torrent of questions "Hi nice to meet you are you and Naruto going out then? Is this your first date? You're so pretty, oh my god I am so happy". Kazehana chuckled good-naturedly before answering her questions "yes Naru-kun and I are going out and it is our first proper date".
At this point, Teuchi Ichiraku had managed to extract himself from the boxes that had fallen onto him. He walked into the front of the shop to see a very uncomfortable Naruto being questioned by his daughter. "Now now Ayame can't you see the boy is a bundle of nerves, after all it's not every day that Naruto brings girl to us, and I must say I much prefer this girl to that pink haired one he brought last time" he chuckled.
"Now what do you and you're pretty girlfriend want?" he asked in a mirthful tone.
After twelve bowls of assorted ramen on Naruto's side and surprisingly enough four for kazehana, they had left the ramen establishment. Once again Naruto gripped Kazehana's hand. "I want to take you to my favourite place in the world," he said rather serenely, the black haired beauty squeezed his hand and continued to follow him.
They were standing at the bottom of a mountain when Naruto tapped her and signalled for her to jump on his back. Once she was firmly on his back he took a few steps back before leaping onto a railing and then leaping from that railing to another. After about thirty seconds, they came to some sort of plateau, which the blonde landed on.
He the squatted allowing the grey-eyed woman off of his back, he once again grabbed her hand leading her over to the head of the fourth Hokage. "This is the best place to look over the village here everything becomes so small it's just men and the village I hope to protect, just like I want to protect you" he said without thinking his emotions overtaking him.
Kazehana moved behind him hugging him from behind. She held him as he stared out at the village. Eventually, he turned around embracing her. So they stood upon the fourths head. Once Naruto felt he had stabilised from his rare emotional outburst, he realised the black haired beauty and took a seat at the edge of the fourths head.
Kazehana could only embrace him though his emotional turmoil. As he turned to her he had his eyes closed and he laid his head into her chest she tightened her embrace in an effort to show she was there for him. After a while he released her before walking to the edge of the head they were on and sitting. He just looked over the village with a natural gaze. Kazehana had to do something. As she tried to think of something to do a leaf partially obscured her vision as it flew by. This gave the grey-eyed woman an idea she grabbed the leaf before walking over to Naruto and placing the leaf in his hand. She then sat behind him and placed her hands over his.
Naruto gaze shifted as he watched kazehana place a leaf in his hand then a moment later she placed her hands over his own. He felt her chakra flow past his hand and into the leaf a moment later the leaf split into two pieces. Naruto got it, it was a small blade of wind that cut the leaf into two separate pieces.
"This is how I was taught to control my powers by learning to cut a leaf in half" she whispered into his ear. It was strange but for some reason this made him feel better just the fact that she was there by his side when he needed someone.
The rest of the night was spent by the two in relative silence in the very same way splitting leaves. They now stood outside the door to their apartment. "Thank you," Naruto said barely above a whisper before placing a hand around her waist while the other cupped her face. He kissed her gently bringing a blush to both their faces. With that, they walked into their apartment and went to bed.
The next morning Naruto woke up really early, as per usual Kazehana's head was on his chest. Now anyone who knew Naruto knew that he loved to sleep but he had to find Iruka he had many questions. With that, he quickly replaced himself with a pillow in the corner of his room, he then quickly got changed. With that he silently crept downstairs and exited the house. He leapt up and started roof hopping towards the academy.
Iruka was marking papers at his desk drinking some strong coffee. There was a knock at the door which was unusual for this early in the morning as only a few people knew he was here this early. "You can come in" he called to the person at the door while preparing a kunai in his hand. The door opened and in walked in a very familiar blonde. "Well I must say Naruto you were the last person I expected to see at this time in the morning," he said while placing the kunai back in his pouch. "Well, Sensei I was hoping that you could answer a few questions, after all you are the smartest person I know" He muttered. The man nodded and gestured for Naruto to take a seat. The boy pulled a seat in front of his teacher's desk and promptly sat.
Naruto was never known to have been tactful, in fact, many could say he was rather blunt. With that in mind, it was hardly unlike him to just blurt out his thoughts. "Iruka I don't know what to do I think I am falling in love with a girl I met and she likes me too, but I still like Sakura too what do I do" he asked in a pleading manner.
This was news to the older man Naruto had another girl who he was interested, but more importantly the girl reciprocated these feelings. 'Now how do I deal with this' Iruka thought to himself. Naruto looked more desperate by the moment. After no more than ten minutes of silence though it felt like ten years to Naruto, Iruka answered "Well Naruto ninja aren't exactly known to have long lives if this girl truly feels that same as you do it might be best to forget Sakura, at any rate I would love to meet this girl". Naruto nodded it would be hard, but he would let Sakura go. With that in mind, Naruto got up and left promising to talk to his old sensei later over his shoulder.
Naruto decided to walk back to the apartment to clear his head it was about eight in the morning. As he walked down the street he noticed that a few shops were open, but one shop, in particular, caught his attention. With one minded determination, he marched towards the shop.
After her display at the Chūnin exams, Ino realised that she had a lot of improvements to make. So the morning after her draw in the preliminary matches, she marched into her father's room and demanded that he up her training. He agreed, but he would only do it if she started taking shifts in their family owned flower shop. Hence the situation Ino was in now she had an early shift. On the plus side, almost no one came in this early so it was a very relaxing shift. With that thought in mind, Ino pulled out a magazine.
There was a ringing of a bell as someone entered the shop "hello welcome to yama- Naruto what are you doing here?" the blonde girl asked as she looked up. He waved in greeting before speaking "Actually I was hoping I could buy some flowers for a girl I kind of like". 'Oh god hasn't he realised yet forehead doesn't like him like that, looks like I'll have to break it to him' she thought to herself. "Look Naruto I am sorry Sakura just doesn't like you like that," she said in a cautious tone. Naruto actually looked perplexed before he replied "I know, I guess I have known for a while, but these aren't for Sakura there for someone else". At this Ino's eyes widened now she was interested this was true gossip.
After half an hour of probing Ino was no closer to finding out the identity of Naruto's mysterious girl. She did know that they lived together and that they seemed to be going out. In Ino's mind, this was something that required further investigation.
Naruto walked back to his apartment flowers in hand. He opened the door to his apartment and an invasion of pleasant smells wafted into his nose. Kazehana was standing there in just an apron and panties. This was a rather normal occurrence by this point. It was when he looked at what she was cooking that he began to smile truly smile, she was cooking ramen. They say the way to a man's heart is through food never was this truer than with Naruto and ramen. Kazehana turned round to see Naruto's face just inches from her own, in his hands was a bouquet of flowers. With their faces in such close proximity kazehana took an opportunity to kiss Naruto, he reciprocated immediately. After a few seconds, they broke off. Once they had Naruto stepped back and presented the bouquet to the black haired woman. She took the flowers with trembling hands before kissing Naruto once more. She placed the flowers in a vase before handing it to Naruto, he then proceeded to place the vase on the table he then took a seat.
She placed the ramen in front of him just a few short minutes later she looked so expectant. With that, he broke apart a set of chopsticks and dug in. he was in heaven everything about that ramen was perfect. At this point Naruto decided he may have to marry kazehana. He gave her a massive smile before continuing to devour the ramen.
After a week of continually getting his ass kicked Naruto thought that he finally had it today he was going to land a hit on pervy sage. Said man would be here in a few minutes with that he finished whispering in Kazehana's ear, she gave him a kiss for good luck and he stepped into the centre of the glade.
Jiraiya landed in the glade to see Naruto standing there as per and kazehana was sitting by the sidelines, However, she was sitting with the two Chūnin who watched their spars. She seemed to be betting with them from what he could hear.
"So kid you ready," asked the white haired man, Naruto nodded in affirmation. With that Jiraiya placed down the timer and set it. Not a moment later he had to leap over several clones dive-bombing his position, a second later Jiraiya landed decimating the clones. However, there was not a moment of respite as serval Naruto's dashed towards the older man. The clones were quickly dealt with, by a few well-placed punches. From the smoke of the clones came shuriken moving at incredible speed. This allowed Jiraiya to see Naruto standing their palm thrust forward.
'So he has started learning futon techniques' the sage thought to himself. For the first time Jiraiya took the offensive, he flew forward covering the distance in seconds his fist shoot forward and struck Naruto who exploded into splinters. A rain of metal came raining down on Jiraiya's position there was a sizzling sound, followed by a massive explosion. All that remained were splinters from a log Jiraiya used to save himself. A moment later the spectators of the battle watched Naruto come flying out from the surrounding Forrest.
He orientated himself in mid-air as he was traveling through the air his hands flashed through a string of hand seals before he bit his thumb. His bloody hand struck the ground and there was a giant toad in a Gi Gamaspeed the super-fast Kung Fu toad. Naruto had summoned him and Gamakichi in order to pull off this plan.
Jiraiya came out of the Forrest and was meet with a giant webbed hand. He started to dodge and weave around the hand while searching for his target. He soon found Naruto when serval metal weapons struck the ground near him. Then from the Forrest behind him came a wave of Fuma shuriken, forcing Jiraiya to replace himself once more he landed in the middle of the clearing a kunai flew towards him from his back. He turned and grabbed the weapon only for it to transform into Naruto who struck him in the face.
"Not bad kid I like the way you pulled that off constantly keeping me on my toes, not bad and with that you're ready for your Chūnin exams" the older man chuckled. "You know what I really like you kid so I'll give you a little extra, ideally I would like to teach you sealing from the ground up but that's not an option at the moment, but I want to at least give you a chance against Genjutsu so I am gonna give you a Jiraiya original seal" he said haughtily. Naruto nodded and sat in the middle of the clearing while Jiraiya painted a seal on his arm.
After about half an hour, Naruto had finished drawing the seal. "Alright kid this seal will neutralise a Genjutsu, but only once as it will disrupt your chakra system so if you get caught you have only got one chance" he declared in a serious tone. Naruto nodded in affirmation he was now ready for the finals of the Chūnin exam's finals.
Kazehana walked into the middle of the field as Naruto finished his conversation with Jiraiya he looked unbelievably happy. Kazehana could not help but smile to his happiness was contagious. He jogged up to her "we should go out to eat to celebrate my victory" he said excitedly. She nodded in reply but first she needed to talk to Jiraiya he looked worried about Naruto something was going to happen. "You go ahead I'll catch up in a second," she told the blonde, he accepted and headed towards the edge of the clearing.
Kazehana approached Jiraiya and he turned to her with a knowing look. "Look something big is going to go down there is gonna be a battle an invasion, I can't be there to protect him I need you to look after him for me" he pleaded. "Of course I will never let any harm come to Naruto ill protect him with my life" she declared with determination. Jiraiya seemed to sag in relief.
With that kazehana leapt towards Naruto and landed beside him before the young couple headed off.
Ino had made no progress she still had no idea who Naruto's mystery girl was. At this point, she was starting to doubt the existence of this girl. So here she sat waiting for Sakura sitting outside of a café, she was extremely frustrated if Naruto had wasted her time with a fake girl he was so dead. A moment later Ino's head shot up when the blonde girl heard Naruto's familiar chuckle. She turned her head in the direction of the chuckle to see Naruto with a black haired woman wrapped around his arm. There was no way Naruto should be with a girl like that was this the girl he was talking about, she was way out of Naruto's league in Ino's opinion.
Naruto and kazehana arrived at Ichiraku ramen after a short walk. To be fair Naruto had suggested that they try other establishments if she wanted. However, she shook her head the black haired beauty, could feel the discomfort Naruto felt about eating at other establishments she found it sweet that he would suffer such discomfort for her. With that, they took their usual seat Ayame's eyes lit up in joy. What they did not expect was for another common face to enter the stall. Naruto turned to see Ino had just entered the stall which was strange in itself since she usually showed such distaste for ramen, maybe she tried some and was finally converted to the way of ramen. Ino immediately approached Naruto and Kazehana.
"Hey Naruto whose the girl you two seem close?" she asked immediately getting straight to the point. Naruto was about to answer before kazehana beat him to it "Naruto and I are going out he is my boyfriend" kazehana replied before kissing Naruto on the cheek, Naruto blushed bright red and Ino looked rather shocked. "Wait so you're telling me that you two are going out?" Ino questioned still no quite believing what she saw.
Kazehana simply nodded in response before turning back around and ordering for both Naruto and herself. Kazehana was developing a real taste for ramen, fortunately, they did eat other food often made by herself as Naruto in a kitchen was a recipe for disaster.
Ino could not even fathom a situation where Naruto the very Naruto who was the dead last of their graduating class ended. Up with a woman like that, this required further investigation. With that, she took a seat next to the two.
Ino watched them interact Naruto always looked unsure of what he was doing yet he seemed to be being a real gentleman, or at least trying to be one. It was strange really the black haired woman seemed to just laugh when he made a mistake. It was very odd they seemed so close even though there were stark differences between the two, the older woman was older, refined and beautiful. Meanwhile Naruto was young, totally immature and not at all attractive, it was only when she saw both their eyes that she truly understood why they were together. She could see the loving gaze they gave each other, the gentle touches it was all so romantic.
Despite everything, Ino decided to do Naruto a favour just this once and leave them be. With that, she left the appropriate amount of money on the counter and left.
Naruto felt very nervous which was highly unusual for him. But the moment that kazehana had said openly that they were going out, something changed he could have objected but the grey-eyed woman looked so happy. In a strange way, it felt right to Naruto he had to let Sakura go and this was as good a way as any to start. With that Naruto though himself into making this the best date he could, sometimes he would turn round and see Ino just staring at them before she turned back to her food.
"Man that was good I enjoyed that, how about you," Naruto asked kazehana, she smiled in reply. Outwardly kazehana seemed fine but inwardly she was very worried all she could think about was what could happen tomorrow. 'I have to protect him no matter what' kazehana though determinedly.
"Hey kazehana-chan I am really nervous about tomorrow I am gonna be fighting the rookie of last year's graduating class, he is so strong, but I have to win" Naruto admitted. She clung to his arm pulling it close to her before entwining her hand with his. "I know you will win no matter what and I will support you every step of the way, even if you lose I will still love you" kazehana whispered lovingly into his ear.
Naruto could tell it was the truth she meant every word, now it was up to him to win for not only himself but also her. He would show everyone why she believed in him no matter what.
After four long weeks of training, today was the day it was the final of the Chūnin exams. Naruto was ready he checked his equipment and then checked it again he was ready to fight and win. Kazehana grabbed his hand as they exited their apartment. They took a quite walk to the stadium they still had an hour before it all began, they wanted to grab their seats early and just relax till it was time for him to fight.
After a short ten-minute walk, they arrived at the stadium and walked up to the contestant box. Kazehana would go to her seat when the tournament officially began, at the moment they were taking most of a row kazehana sat at the end while Naruto laid his head on her lap. Apparently it would calm him down so he could mentally prepare himself, he didn't know if this was true, but it seemed to be working. This moment of peace was promptly shattered by the loud voice of Kiba "heh looks like we are the first ones here see I told ya we would be early even if we stopped for breakfast".
The black haired woman caught Kiba's attention instantly she was super-hot. So of course the feral looking boy had to go and introduce himself to her. With that he straightened himself up before walking over to the mysterious woman, as Kiba got closer he could not help but be astounded by the beauty of the woman in the seat.
He was now right behind her "hey I don't think I have seen you before I didn't notice you during the last round" he addressed the mysterious woman. She turned to him before replying "oh, no I am not a contestant I am actually here with another one of the contestant, do you know him his name is Naruto-kun". Now this was something that Kiba was not expecting at all, looking down sure enough there was Naruto seemingly relaxing his head on the woman's lap. Now Kiba had been raised by two very strong women, who had taught him to respect women. He respected that fact that she was with Naruto, that wouldn't stop him from asking Naruto to ask her if she had any hot friends. At this moment, something else occurred to Kiba if Hinata saw this she would be heart broken and she was heading over this very moment. He had to stop that from happening "oh Naruto owes me big time for this" he muttered to himself. With that, he ran back over to Hinata and Shino began the task of sending him and Hinata on a wild goose chase. "Hey Hinata I just remembered I left some of my gear back at home come with me and help me find it" he shouted towards her, Hinata being the kind soul she was agreed as long as they got back in time for Naruto's Match. With that the two set off to look for Kiba's 'lost' equipment.
A/N; the real action will start next chapter the battles the guts the glory and thank all of you for the favourites and followers this story I am completely blown away.