Turtle Friend by Lupine Horror

Iruka stared at one of his students, not quite sure what to make of what he was seeing.

Last Friday, Naruto had been acting pretty normal, or normal for him at least.

He read ahead in his textbooks, played around at lunch with Kiba, Shikamaru, and Choji, and as usual, completed failed at using hand seals yet somehow managed to get the techniques to work for him.

He had gone home, and probably stayed there over the weekend, or at least did nothing that Iruka knew about.

This morning, however, he was the center of attention, and not for anything he had done, but more . . . what was on his head.

A small one-eyed turtle sat on the boy's head, and Naruto was acting like that was completely normal.


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At lunch time, Kiba couldn't hold himself back any longer and just had to ask.

"Dude, what's with that little thing on your head? It looks kinda weird."

The turtle seemed to take offence at that, because a moment later, a blast of water erupted from the turtle's mouth and sent Kiba flying.

"I don't think he liked that, Kiba." Naruto chuckled.

"His name is Isobu, and he's a new . . . friend that decided to hang around."

Naruto's eyes glimmered at that, like there was some sort of hidden joke only he understood.

Shikamaru looked at the turtle, who stared back with an eye filled with far too much intelligence to be normal, and said one word to sum up his feelings on the subject.

"Troublesome."


(P.S. All hail Lupine Horror for his story and omakes - roughstar333)