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Curiosity Broke the Scissors
-Chapter 7-
-Last Time-
"Uh, it's kinda embarrassing to talk about." Star muttered as her cheek marks glowed pink.
"Come on, I won't tell anyone, promise." Ino begged with a cute pout.
"Oh alright, well it all started when…"
-And Now-
"…then I turned back to normal and celebrated getting my Mewberty wings with Marco." Star finished her story with a nostalgic smile. She and Ino were currently in the latter's room, with the princess sitting on the bed rolling up all the loose silk they'd collected from Naruto and Star's apartment into balls using two hands.
Several of these bundles of lavender webbing were currently soaking in bowls of warm water, while the other four of Star's hands started spinning into spools of fine thread that Ino then fed into a miniature loom, making a long continuous stretch of soft fabric.
"Man, must've been one heck of an experience," Ino said while stopping to look over her work so far for any mistakes or problems. "It's almost like you just crammed the entire process of puberty into a few hours."
"That's exactly what Marco said." Star said with a giggle that Ino shared.
"I gotta admit, this Mewberty of yours sounds a whole lot better to deal with, minus the whole kidnapping every boy you see and sticking them in a cocoon."
"Really? What's puberty like? I asked Marco once but he just got all red and stuttered a lot before taking a nap." Star said, causing Ino to burst out in giggles.
"Yeah, that sounds about right," The platinum blonde stated once she got herself under control. "Honestly, puberty is a bit of a rough time, from the random emotional outbursts thanks to the hormones, the constant worry of acne outbreaks, and annoying growing pains. Not to mention having to deal with all the new hair growth and sexual urges."
"Oh, that doesn't sound fun at all." Star said as her brain conjured up over dramatic images. "And how long does last? A few days? A week?"
"Pffft! I wish!" Ino exclaimed, once again bursting into a laughing fit that took several moments to calm down, wiping a tear from her eye when she did. "Puberty goes on for years Star."
As soon as these words reached Star's ears, she froze in what she was doing as she stared at Ino with bugged out eyes and a slack jaw. "Years? Seriously?"
"I told you it sucked. In fact, I'm already going through it as we speak and Naruto should be starting any time now." Ino said, her shoulders shaking from barely repressed laughter as she took in her new friend's reaction, before all the humor unexpectedly drained from her face as she looked towards her door in confusion. "Hey, speaking of Naruto, is it just me or has he been in the bathroom for a really long time now?"
Blinking in surprise at the sudden change of topic, Star followed her gaze with a curious and slightly worried look of her own. "Well now that you mention it… Should we go see if he's okay?"
"I'm sure his fine… but I'll go check on him just to be on the safe side." Ino said with a mischievous smirk as she grabbed a camera that was sitting on a nearby table. 'Hello new teasing/blackmail material~.'
Unaware of Ino's new… side quest, Star simply nodded in understanding before focusing back on her work as her fellow blonde left the room in search of the missing whiskered boy.
However, said search ended barely a minute after it started as Ino found Naruto in the store section of her home. This time it was Ino who was left stunned as she watched the normally hyperactive blonde watering and trimming the various plants in the store with a relaxed smile on his face.
After a few seconds of just staring at the, in her opinion, impossible sight before her, Ino finally snapped out of her surprise and quickly took a few pictures. 'Not what I was expecting but definitely worth getting a picture of.'
While Naruto wasn't exactly popular, he was no small amount infamous for his constant energetic attitude. So much so in fact that there was actually a betting pool in the gossip community that had been going on for a few years now on if anyone could ever get proof of him acting calmly about something that wasn't eating ramen.
…Plus she also happened to know a certain blue-haired heiress that would pay a small fortune for such a picture as well.
-Hyuga Complex-
Inside a moderately sized bedroom, one Hinata Hyuga could be seen sitting with a large body pillow that had an old picture of Naruto taped to it.
"H-hello N-naruto-kun, I was w-wondering if you w-would be… Oh I can't do it!" She cried out with a bright blush before she buried her face into said pillow.
Meanwhile, leaning against a nearby wall Kurenai rubbed her forehead with a sigh as she walked over and rubbed her student's back. 'Well at least she managed to get halfway through asking this time before breaking.'
She'd trying to get the girl to break out of her shell for a while now, and the best place to start would be to build up her confidence towards her crush, but as you can see progress was slow going.
-Back at Yamanka Complex/Store-
'Cha-ching.' Ino thought with a grin before loudly clearing her throat, causing Naruto to jump in surprise at the sudden noise.
"Huh? Oh, hey Ino." Naruto said once he saw who made the sound. "Jeez, you scared the kuso out of me."
"I noticed," The gossiper said with a smirk before pointing to the watering can and trimming shears in his hands. "You know, that is certainly an odd way to go to the bathroom."
"Uh… what?" Naruto asked with a raised brow, her joke flying right over his head.
'Kami, I forgot he is such an idiot.' Ino thought with a facepalm. "You said you were going to the bathroom almost an hour ago, Star and I were wondering what was taking you so long."
"Ooooh, right," Naruto said before smiling sheepishly, "Sorry, I was on my way back when I noticed that some of your plants looked really dry and wilted."
'Kuso, with all the craziness these last few days I forgot to water everything. I never thought I'd think this but thank Kami for Naruto, my parents would've been pissed if they'd seen this.' Ino thought with a wince as she looked at the bucket by Naruto's feet overflowing with decaying vegetation. "Ah, thanks then, but when did you know how to care for plants so well?"
Most people just dumped water on plants without a second thought while cutting willy nilly, but Naruto's work was proper, exact, and tidy, giving just the right amount of water and only removing what was needed to keep the plants healthy.
"Gardening has always been a bit of a hobby of mine, and your mom was nice enough to give me a few tips here and there whenever I came by for fertilizer or new plants." Naruto said with a shrug, getting Ino to blink in surprise.
"…You've talked with my mother?"
"Uh-huh, she's a really nice lady, even lets me take the out of date stock for free." Naruto said with a grin.
"That's sounds like mom alright." Ino muttered with a nod before suddenly grabbing Naruto's arm and pulling him towards her room. "Now enough gabbing, let's get back to Star before she gets bored again and tries to entertain herself with her magic again. Having to explain to my parents why the kitchen table tap dances is gonna be a big enough headache as it is."
"Alright. Alright. You don't have to drag me." Naruto said irritably as he tried to pry himself out of her grasp.
"Nope, I'm not risking you getting 'distracted' again and leaving me to-Whoa!" Ino started to say sarcastically before yelping in surprise when she slipped in a puddle of water that had formed from a leaky planter. Normally she'd be able to catch herself pretty easily from such a slip, but thanks to the added ballast that was Naruto's struggling, the lavender dressed blonde ended up falling right onto him and sending both straight to the ground.
*Jingle* "Hey Ino! You in here!" Sakura called out as she walked into Yamanaka's Flowers, an ice pack taped to the left side of her face, gauze in the spaces where her teeth were missing, and a box of chocolates with the words 'Get Well Soon' atop it in her arms. "I heard you were sick recently so I brought you a giiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii…"
The pinkette continued to drag out that one syllable as she stared at the sight before her with a bugged-out eye.
Ino was laying on top of Naruto one of her hands intertwined with his while the other had slipped underneath his jacket whilst his free hand was grasping a handful of developing breast. The icing to the cake, the pair of blondes were staring straight into each-other's eyes in shock as their lips were firmly locked together.
Total silence filled the shop, minus Sakura's still ongoing drawl, as the trio stayed completely motionless while their brains tried to process the situation.
Taking a quick peek inside Sakura's mind, we see the infamous Inner Sakura seizing on the ground and frothing at the mouth as the words 'Does Not Compute' flashed all over the place in bold red letters.
Meanwhile, at Ino Central Command, several alarms could be seen blaring as multiple chibi Inos ran around in utter chaos, screaming things like 'My first kiss was stolen!' and 'I've betrayed Sasuke-kun!'.
Finally, within Naruto's head… huh, how odd, there's nothing here. Hello? Anybody home? Hmmm, would you excuse me for a moment. *Que various random shuffling, banging, and crashing noises that oddly end with a cat screeching indignantly* Aha! Found something! …Ah dammit it's just an old funeral music record, what the hell is that doing in here.
Anyway, back in the real world smoke started to rise from Sakura's ears as she stared at Naruto and Ino for a solid minute before falling to the ground with a solid *thump*. This in turn snapped Ino and Naruto from their dazes, evident by their faces swiftly turning the brightest red in existence before the former broke the lip lock and scooched away like she'd been burned.
"…my first kiss… Naruto… first kiss… Naruto… kiss… Naruto…" Ino muttered with a somewhat glazed look in her eyes as she brought her hands up to her mouth. However, with each repetition her eyes gained a bit more life in them, and with that life an unholy level of righteous feminine fury. "Kiss. Naruto. Kiss. Naruto. Kiss. NARUTO!"
Jumping at the roar of anger that his fellow blonde unleashed, Naruto's self-preservation instincts took over and he scrambled away just in time to avoid the fist that buried itself into the floor where his head had been just seconds ago.
Seeing the burning rage clearly burning in Ino's eyes, the whiskered boy forgot all about the accidental kiss as sweat poured from his brow. 'Oh Kuso! Oh Kuso! Oh Kuso! I'm gonna die!' He thought as Ino pulled her fist free and started to slowly march towards him while cracking her knuckles.
"NARU-*Pht* Mph?!" Thankfully for Naruto, before Ino could properly rearrange his face, the enraged blonde suddenly found herself once again bound by purple silk.
The source of the webbing, Star obviously, walked into the room with a confused and slightly upset look on her face. "What the heck is going on in here?" She asked Naruto after shooting Ino and Sakura dirty looks.
"Uh, just a little… misunderstanding," Naruto said nervously, his eyes flickering from Star's curious gaze to Ino's still livid one that said 'tell her what happened and I'll use your corpse as fertilizer'. "It was my fault, I accidentally errr called Ino's butt big?"
'Ugh really? That was the best he could come up with? There is no way she's gonna believe that.' Ino thought with a dull look, her anger briefly vanishing at the pure stupidity that was Naruto's excu-
"Oh, well wasn't that just silly of you," Star said with a giggle as her anger vanished just like that. "Don't you know that you should never tell a girl she looks fat in any way?"
'Right… forgot… girl Naruto.' Ino thought while mentally facepalming.
"I do now." Naruto muttered quietly, cringing a little as Star cut Ino free of her bindings, especially now that her once angry expression was now replaced with a devious smirk. "Hey Star, I think we have enough silk ready for sowing, but we still need a model, don't we?"
'Noooo, don't tell me she's suggesting what I think she's suggesting.' Naruto thought, slowly skidding back as Star nodded without a second thought.
"Yep, I can just whip one up really quick though." Star said while pulling out her wand, only for Ino to push the arm holding it down.
"No offense Star but I'd rather you not do anymore magic while in my house, at least until I can introduce you to my parents," Ino said, getting the transformed princess to nod her head in understanding before the gossip queen's cruel smirk returning as she grabbed Naruto's collar just as he started to run away. "Besides, we have the perfect model right here."
"Uhh, but aren't we making a dress?" Star asked with a tilted head.
"Yeah Ino, a dress, a girl's dress." Naruto repeated while putting extra emphasis on 'girl'.
"Don't even start Naruto, we both know that that isn't an issue for you," Ino said bluntly, making Naruto slump in defeat when he figured out what she was referring to. "Now shut up, stand up, and change up."
"Hello~ princess still really confused over here~." Star said in a slightly annoyed sing-song tone.
"Trust me Star, it'll make sense in three… two… *poof* now." Ino said with a Cheshire grin as Naruto did a single hand-sign and was engulfed in a cloud smoke. Once it cleared, Star's jaw hit the floor as she found herself looking at a bodacious female version of Naruto with 'her' hair done up in pigtails, a decent sized rack, curves that made Ino a bit jealous, and an adorable glare on 'her' face.
"Happy now?" 'She' asked with an irritated huff.
"Definitely."
-End Chapter-
AN: Filler chapter, hope you all still enjoyed, thanks for reading and please review
