It's been a few weeks since that day and so far, things have been fine. Tohru has become a nice maid, Naruto has been allowed to go on missions again, and Tohru has been able to blend in with the rest of the village. Everything seems right with the world but that's the thing about the world, it never stays that way as Naruto entered his home, which was sparkling clean since Tohru had become his maid. With that thought in mind, the dragon girl was currently in the kitchen preparing lunch, which still surprises Naruto as he was amazed at how fast Tohru was able to learn how to cook and do amazingly at that.
"Tohru, I'm home!" Naruto called.
"Welcome back, Mr. Naruto!" Tohru peeked from the kitchen. "I was just making lunch."
"Cool." Naruto replied as he sat down at the table. "Say, after lunch, would you like to go spar with me?"
Tohru froze at the request before smiling brightly. Having been his maid and keeping a low profile, she hasn't been able to get a good workout lately and the thought of showing her master what she can do is a once in a life time opportunity.
"Yes!" she said.
Naruto beamed at that as Tohru returned to the kitchen and finished lunch, some nice pork cutlets with a side of white rice. Since, Tohru found out Naruto's favorite food was ramen, she decided to help him expand his eating habits beyond the noodles and make him other food, which he enjoyed very much. After they had lunch and put the dished to be cleaned later, the two departed for one of the empty training grounds a good distance from the village, they still couldn't have the Anbu find out about Tohru's powers or else panic would arise.
"Alright, ready, Tohru?" Naruto asked from his position 10 feet from Tohru, his arms up and legs apart and ready to spar.
"Yes, Mr. Naruto!" Tohru replied, with a smile as she put her arms up as well.
They were still for a moment as the wind blew causing leaves to flow in the air and in an instant, both of them charged at each other, engaging in combat.
Naruto went on the offensives and gave attack after attack to his dragon maid but to his surprise, she was able to block and dodge every hit. He continued but his efforts were futile as the maid had finally taken the opportunity to strike back with her hands growing claws. Naruto was able to stop her hands by grabbing her wrists but he didn't account on the strength behind it.
"Wow, you're pretty strong, Tohru." Naruto complimented as he held her back.
"Heh. Thanks, Mr. Naruto." Tohru replied as she applied more force to her arms.
Naruto released his grip and jumped back to perform a familiar jutsu.
"Shadow Clone Jutsu!" he shouted as he put two finger from each hand in a cross formation.
15 clones of Naruto then appeared out of thin air, encircling and amazing the dragon maid.
"Wow!" Tohru exclaimed as she looked at the clones. "How did you do that?"
"While you may have you magic, we here in the ninja lands have chakra and with it..." Naruto said as he and the clones got in pairs and started to form chakra orbs in their hands.
"We can do things like this." Naruto said before he and his clones shouted, "Rasengan Barrage!"
All the Narutos in pairs bolted towards Tohru with the rasengans ready.
"Well then." Tohrru said as she gave a fang-filled smile and transformed her arms into their dragon form, coating them in magic flames. "Let's see how chakra holds against me!"
Tohru waited for the clones to get close enough and then swung her arms and knocked away the clones, causing them to poof away but failed to notice the real Naruto dodged and ran right at her.
"Got you!" Naruto said as he thrust his Rasengan forward.
"Think again!" Tohru said as she quickly met the spiraling ball with her magic flame covered, dragon claw!
Chakra and magic clashed for dominance for what seemed hours until both Rasengan and magic flames blew up, sending their wielders back with a shock wave as Naruto and Tohru skid to a stop before raising their heads to look at each other.
'Tohru's stronger than I thought, you think she's stronger enough to handle chakra mood?' Naruto thought to Kurama.
"Chakra mood? Wasn't this just a spare?" Kurama commented.
'I just wanna see how strong she really is. What do you say?' Naruto mentally asked.
"Use the base cloak, the one after you master my chakra for the first time." Kurama answered.
'Got it!' Naruto thought as his body was covered in bright, yellow, fire like chakra.
Tohru's eyes opened wide at the transformation, remembering it from when he pulled the God's sword out of her back. The surprise faded away as she gave a fanged smile and returned her arms to normal but kept the claws out.
"Here I come, Mr. Naruto!" Tohru said as she dashed at him, claws at the ready.
Naruto meet her dash with his own as the two clash blow for blow, becoming almost like blurs in this "sparing match." After several minutes of fighting at high speeds, they grappled in a stalemate before jumping backwards from each other. They were both breathing heavily from the speed they were going and hits they delivered.
"One last hit, Tohru-chan?" Naruto asked as he caught his breath.
"One last hit, Mr. Naruto." Tohru replied as she prepared herself.
They both begun to prepare their attacks for a final clash as Naruto was creating a Planetary Rasengan in his right hand with 2 chakra arms from his back while Tohru summoned a magic circle around her and channeled magic into her right claw.
Both roared as they charged a each others attack, Rasengan against Magic-coated claw. When the attacks met, both wielders fought for dominance as they held on from the impact. Neither of them were willing to give in as their clash created a raging wind that blew nearly every tree back.
"GRRRAAAHH!" They both roared as they struggled and their attacks reached their limits and blew up, blowing both combatants away from each other.
Naruto and Tohru were blown into the woods and crashed through several trees before skidding to their stops on the ground. Both laid their for a few minutes before Tohru was the first to rise, grabbing her head in pain before remembering her master.
"Mr. Naruto!" she said as she got up and bolted towards him.
Meanwhile, Naruto was laying on the ground in a little pain as he returned to lowered his chakra mode and normal.
"What a clash." Naruto said as he rubbed his head.
"That dragon girl is strong." Kurama commented.
"Yeah." Naruto said as he got up from the ground and saw Tohru run to Naruto with a look of worry on her face.
"Are you okay, Mr. Naruto?!" Tohru said as she check him for any injuries.
"I'm fine, Tohru. What about you?" he said as he looked over her a bit.
"I'm fine, thanks." She bashfully said before asking cutely, "Are you sure you're okay?"
Naruto laughs a bit and says, "Yeah, and believe me, I've had worse injuries."
"Are you serious?" Tohru asked, not really believing it, even if these ninja seem stronger than normal humans.
Naruto just laughed a bit more at Tohru's surprise since over the years, he's gotten much worse, almost life threatening injuries, like the Chidori to the chest when he and Sasuke fought at the Valley of the End when they were younger.
"Yes, Tohru but it's alright. No matter what, I always bounce back." Naruto said as he flexed his prosthetic right arm covered in bandages.
"Mr. Naruto." Tohru said in awe.
The confidence radiating off of him and his bright smile made her believe his words and fall for in love with him even more. Naruto brought his arm down and gazed a Tohru.
"Let's head back home before someone comes to check this place, I'm pretty sure what we just did won't go unnoticed." he said as he held his left hand out.
Tohru grabbed his hand, iddly noticing how they fit together as they moved at neck-breaking speeds, returning to their home. Good thing they left when they did since, no longer than 2 minutes later, an ANBU squad arrived with a familiar cat-masked ANBU leading them.
"This is where to the explosion came from, I want all of you to fan out and look for any signs of who was here." said Neko/Yugao the cat masked Anbu.
"Yes, ma'am!" said the other Anbu before they started searching.
While the ANBU searched for clues, Naruto and Tohru arrived at his home.
"Seems we were't followed." Naruto said as a looked around.
"I still would've sensed them, no matter how stealthy they are." Tohru said, half bragging and puffing her chest a bit.
"That you would." Naruto said, feeding the girls ego a bit and finding it funny in silence.
With the spar over and the Anbu avoided yet again, the two entered their shared home and planned on relaxing for however long they want.
