Chapter 8 is up! I was starting to worry that I'd never get this thing done before my tests next week. Things are getting even more crazier at school, and it doesn't help that I'm waiting for the new Jackass movie and Assassain's Creed Brotherhood to come out!

Well I hope you all enjoy this chapter!


Chapter 8: Kyoto Trip: Trip to Nara

Negi woke up the Negi morning, letting out a yawn as he stretched. It had been a long night for him and the others and it didn't help that he had trouble going to sleep after they had rescued Konoka. Even though Naruto had said that they could've handled that monkey woman by themselves, it didn't really boost his confidence up considering that the enemy had them pinned when they started using under-handed tactics like using Konoka as a shield.

"If the enemy is going to do things like that again, then Naruto-nii is really going to be a huge help for us." Negi said with a sigh, before looking over at the blonde shinobi who was sleeping peacefully right beside him with Chamo sleeping on his shoulder.

"Naruto-nii, it's time to get up," Negi said, shaking Naruto's shoulder a bit, when he received no response he just sighed, "Something's never change…" he muttered with a smile, before he got up and went to get dressed. Once he was fully clothed in his suit, Negi grabbed his pillow and positioned himself in front of Naruto, and took in a breath.

"Wake up!" he shouted as he swung his pillow down onto Naruto's head, smacking the blonde's face, causing Naruto to shoot upwards and sending Chamo to the ground, the both the ninja and the ermine to opened their eyes.

"I'm up, I'm up…" Naruto grumbled wearily, before turning to his little brother, "Geez Negi, did you have to do that?" he asked as he rubbed his right eye.

"Sorry Naruto-nii, but I had to get you up somehow," Negi told him while stifling a laugh, "You better get dressed quickly, you might miss breakfast."

"Wait, hold on a minute Negi," Naruto said, hastily grabbing a black shirt, blue jeans, and his jacket and quickly put them on, "Ok, I'm ready, let's go!" he said happily, grabbing Chamo and Negi and dragged them out of the room while slamming the door shut with his foot.


Naruto happily ate his food after Negi had told the girls over the microphone to dig in. He could only chuckle as he overheard Ayaka mentioning she didn't remember anything after going to the waterfall temple and Yuna complaining that they all missed the first day.

He and Negi were then approached by Konoka, "Good morning Naruto-kun! Negi-kun, you look a little sleepy." she greeted them.

"Good morning, Konoka-chan." Naruto managed to say even though his mouth was full of food

"Good morning, Konoka-san." Negi said.

"Thanks for last night, I don't really understand what happened but I know that both of you, Asuna, and Se-chan helped me." She thanked them.

"You don't have to thank us Konoka-chan, we were just doing what any friend would've done in that situation." Naruto told her, before going back to eating his food.

"Naruto-nii's right Konoka-san, we just glad you're safe." Negi said.

"But thank god she doesn't care about the details." Chamo thought.

"I know, but still thank you," Konoka said, before she noticed someone in front of them, "Ah, Se-chan!" she called out her old friend's name, causing said girl to suddenly stop and Naruto noticed the sweat beginning to form on her head.

Setsuna began walking away from them rather quickly, but Konoka followed after her, "Why are you leaving, don't be embarrassed Se-chan, let's eat together," Konoka insisted, but that only caused Setsuna to run away from her, with both Negi and Konoka chasing after her, "Se-chan! Why are you running away!" she called after her classmate.

"Setsuna-san!" Negi shouted.

"I-I'm not running away!" Setsuna responded even though she was clearly running away.

Naruto let out a sigh, "Setsuna, is it really that difficult for you to even sit next to Konoka-chan," Naruto thought to himself as he continued eating, "Looks like I'll have to help her get closer to Konoka-chan…" he continued eating while he watched the girls talking about staying up all night tonight so they don't miss anything. After breakfast, he, Negi, and Asuna just walked through the lobby, Naruto paying only a little attention to what Asuna was saying to them. What he was really focused on was Kaede and Mana silently discussing something behind them from the dining room, which made him a little suspicious "I hope I didn't say too much yesterday, if Kaede is a ninja I'll have to keep a close watch on her..." he thought before his eyes snapped back towards his little brother as he got tackled by Makie.

"Negi-kun, come along with our group today!" she shouted, immediately causing a chain reaction with each group.

"Wait a minute Makie-san, Negi-sensei is coming with group 3 today!" Ayaka declared while moving Makie away from Negi.

"Eh! But I asked him first!" Makie said, followed by Fuuka joining in the fray as well. Soon enough, Negi was surrounded by his students who were trying to get their little sensei to join them in their group activities.

"Damn Negi, this class really loves you...maybe a little too much..." Naruto said as he looked at the scene in front of him, sweat dropping.

"U-Um, Negi-sensei," Naruto turned his head towards Nodoka, who seemed to be trying to ask Negi something with great difficulty, "W-We have free activity time today, s-so if it's okay with you, would you like to spend the day with us!" she asked, causing everyone to stop what they were doing and looked at the normally quiet girl.

"Miyazaki-san," Negi muttered as a blush formed on his face while he began thinking, "Hmm, group 5 is the one that will be attacked by that monkey-oneesan. Konoka-san is with them and so is Asuna-san and Setsuna-san... "Negi spent maybe a few more moments thinking about it before announcing his decision, "Alright, Miyazaki-san, I'll go with you and group 5 today." this caused a majority of the girls to burst into applause for the library girl.

"Wait a minute, we haven't decided which group Naruto-kun will be in!" Sakurako shouted as she realized they had forgotten their newest teacher. All the girls stopped their applauding and slowly turned their heads towards Naruto, who suddenly got an ominous feeling as he stared back at them.

"Maybe I should run," Naruto thought...too late. The girls swarmed on him, everyone one of them asking him to join their group today while Naruto only thought was, "I'm not a prize!" he was fortunately saved by the timely intervention of his little brother.

"Now girls, you shouldn't fight over which group Naruto-nii should join," Negi told them, much to the class's disappointment and Naruto sending him silent thank yous to him, "Instead, Naruto-nii should be the one to decide which one he should join." Negi declared, which seemed to have stirred up the girls once more.

Naruto shot a glare at Negi, as much as he loved his little brother, his innocent attempts to help him generally seemed to get him into more trouble, "I-I know, how about I draw straws," he suggested, and gave a sigh of relief as he managed to avoid that bullet...for now, "Pick five straws and number them from one to five, each number symbolizing a group, I'll pick one and whatever group's number is on it will be the one I go with today." he told them.

"Okay!" the girls shouted, a horde of them running towards the dining area, they came back only to find that Yue had already gotten five straws out and had numbered them, hey when a girl likes drinking a much strange drinks as she does, she's bound to keep a couple on her just in case.

Naruto took a few seconds to decide before taking out the straw farthest from him, it had the number four on it, "Well it looks like I'm with group 4 today," Naruto announced, scratching the back of his head with a bit of embarrassment as he saw Makie and Yuna gloating like they had just a big competition, "They think I'm some sort of trophy, don't they?" he asked himself with a sweat drop as he continued to watch the scene.

"N-Naruto-nii," said blonde ninja turned his head to look at his little brother, who was looking very worried at the moment, "Shouldn't we stick together, just in case that monkey-oneesan attacks us again?" he whispered, only to receive a bonk on the from his older brother.

"Negi, you've got to be able to learn to how to handle those situations better, you can't always rely on me to bail you out when it gets tough," Naruto told him with his trademark fox-grin, then ruffled the young mage's hair, "Besides, I've got the feeling she won't attack us today, she's probably trying to think of a way to beat us."

"But that's still not good thing!" Negi said, sounding even more worried.

"It's alright Negi, whatever she's planning, I'll make sure it fails," Naruto reassured him, which seemed to help Negi calm down some, "Now get back to group 5, we've got some sightseeing to do!" he yelled, his fist raised in excitement.

Negi quickly ran back to group 5 while Naruto walked towards group 4, the girls were getting ready to leave as he joined them, "So what all do you girls plan to do today?" he asked curiously, and got an immediate response from Yuna.

"Nothing much really, Mana-san wants to visit some shrine while we just wanna do some sightseeing." she told him cheerfully.

"I hope it's not a bother to you, Naruto-sensei." Mana said calmly as they all got in line for the bus.

"It's alright, doesn't bother me a bit." Naruto told her with a thumbs up and a grin.


The bus ride there was pretty uneventful for Naruto, all the girls just talked excitedly throughout the ride while he was pestered by Kuu Fei about what kind of training he had done with his teacher and the twins finally summed up the courage to ask him to teach them pranking, to which Naruto agreed to with an excited grin. When the bus came to a stop, Naruto was one of the first ones off.

"Ah, seems like it's gonna be a peaceful day today!" he said happily as he stretched his arms out while he waited for the girls to get off the bus. Once they were all together they first headed towards the nearby park, which was crowded with tamed deer. Naruto thought they were beautiful, but he knew that these deer had nothing on the ones that belonged to the Nara clan, he even remembered the gigantic one Shikamaru had shown him, Choji, and Kiba when they were younger and how it tried to gore them with its horns after Kiba mad it angry by yelling at it for nearly stepping on Akamaru, good times.

As group 4 began observing the peaceful animals, Naruto felt something gently nudge his side. He turned around to find two young ones staring at him curiously. Naruto crouched down, lifted his hands and began to gently pet their heads, while they in turn started to nuzzle against his hands affectionately. Soon he was starting finding himself surrounded by the furry creatures, much to the girls surprised but not to his. He had found out soon after becoming a sage that by becoming one with nature, animals seemed to flock towards him instead of usually running away like they do to most humans.

"H-Hey guys, hehehe quit it, that tickles!" Naruto giggled as he felt the deer licking him on his hands and his face, or nuzzled themselves on any part of his body they could reach.

"Wow Naruto-sensei, they seem to really like you." Akira said as she walked up to him and watched as the deer continued to actions to the laughing blonde.

"You want to try petting them," he asked, to which he received a nod in response. He calmly stood up and walked to Akira's side and held out his hand, "Just hold out your hand, don't do anything to frighten them and they'll come to you, watch." Naruto told her, Akira nodded and did the same as her teacher had done. The deer soon came up to them again, a few deciding to give Akira a test by giving her a few licks on her palm before they began nuzzling their necks against her.

Naruto turned his head to look at the other four girls who were just watching them and waved at them to come over, to which they complied. Yuna, Makie, and Ako grouped together and they each took a turn petting the two deer that came up to them while Mana decided to join Naruto and Akira, but the deer seem to shy away from her, like they were scared of her.

"They seem to be intimidated by you." Naruto commented as the deer came up to them.

"I think you're right." she agreed as she slowly reached out to pet another deer, but it move away from her hand.

"Here, let me help you," Naruto told her and walked over to her and held out his hand for the deer that had followed him, the deer stopped just a few feet from him while they looked at Mana, but they regarded her as they went up to Naruto, "You can pet them now." he told Mana to which she complied. She slowly held out her hand and placed her hand on top of the deer's head, and it nuzzled against her palm.

While Naruto didn't see it, Mana let a small smile grace her lips as she looked at Naruto, who was laughing hysterically as another group of deer came up to him and tickled him again, "Why would Kaede and Kuu be interested in Naruto-sensei, he doesn't look like a warrior..." she thought.


A few minutes later they made their way to Mana's shrine, Naruto telling the girls to go on ahead while he looked around the area and that he would meet them back here. The girls were okay with that and they made their way up the stairs that led to the shrine. Naruto wondered around the area, taking in the scenery before finding a flat rock a little ways from the stairs to the shrine, he sat cross-legged on the rock and closed his eyes as he begun meditating.

A few minutes had passed before Naruto heard someone call out to him, "Young man," he opened his eyes to see an old man standing in front of him. He had shoulder white hair and a white beard and he wore a white monk's outfit, wore glasses, and wielded a cane. He gave Naruto a small smile and bowed to him, "It's nice to see someone so young be so intuned with nature," he said as he sat down beside the blonde and just stared into the sky, "To think I would live long enough to meet a sage as young as you, the world does work in wondrous ways." he said happily, which sent Naruto instantly raising his guard.

"How'd you know that Oji-san?" he asked as his hand slowly crept towards the hidden kunai in his pocket.

"I have had the ability to sense what goes on with the natural energies since I was a boy," he explained as he took his glasses off his face and started wiping them, "For most people I have met and seen in my life, those energies just flowed around them, showing that they weren't intune with nature, but you're different, nature doesn't flow around, but through you, as if you were a part of nature yourself, which must mean you are a true sage."

"W-Who are you Oji-san?" Naruto said as he stared at the old man in amazement.

The old man let out a small chuckle, "It's common courtesy to introduce yourself before asking others their names, but my name young sage, is Hikaru."

"It's nice to meet you Hikaru, I'm Uzumaki Naruto." Naruto introduced himself.

"Likewise Naruto-san," Hikaru said as he studied his glasses before putting them back on, "So tell me Naruto-san, where did you train to become a sage?" he asked.

Naruto froze for a few seconds, debating whether or not he should tell the old man where he trained or not, but he decided it was safe to tell him, "I trained at a place called Myobokuzan, ever heard of it?" he told him, then was surprised by the old man's calm demeanor instantly changed to a shocked one.

"Y-You mean you t-trained at the legendary M-Myobokuzan?" Hikaru stuttered as he stared at Naruto, who nodded his head, "N-Naruto-san, could you show the mark of the sage that one is said to obtain if they were to train at Myobokuzan?" he asked.

"Hmm, sure I don't see why not." Naruto shrugged, then stood perfectly still and gathered nature chakra. His eyes turned from blue to yellow, the pupils transforming into that of a toad's and red rings appeared around his eyes.

Hikaru just stared at the blonde, a wide smile suddenly broke on his face, "So the legends are true, Myobokuzan does exist," he said before breaking out into a fit of laughter, making Naruto starting to doubt the old man's sanity, "To think I not only get to meet a sage as young as you, but I find out that the legendary training grounds of the sage exist a well," he said excitedly, before asking, "But tell me Naruto-san, I could sense you taking the energies of nature into yourself, but you don't seem to be overflowing with it, you are the same as before, why is that?" he asked, to which Naruto broke out into a sly grin.

"It took me about four days to learn it, but I learned how to hide my presence when I'm in this state." Naruto stated proudly as he went back into his normal form

Before Hikaru could ask why he learned that, they heard someone shout out, "Naruto-sensei!," they turned around to see group 1 walking towards them, well at least the cheerleading trio were, the twins were sprinting towards their blonde sensei, before attempting to tackle him. Their attempt failed miserably because as soon as they jumped at him, Naruto sidestepped them and grabbed them back the back of their uniforms.

"Let me guess, you two want me to help you pull off a prank?" he asked, to which the twins nodded their heads excitedly, "Eh, I've got nothing better to do," he shrugged, then noticed Hikaru's questioning look, "These girls are my students, I'm an assistant teacher for their school." he explained.

"I see…you're just one surprise after another, aren't you Naruto-san?" the old man asked with a small laugh.

"I guess so…" Naruto agreed, his trademark fox-grin adorning his face.

"Hey I found him! Naruto-sensei!" they all heard Yuna's voice rang out. Naruto, Hikaru, and group 1 turned to see group 4 heading towards them.

"Where were you Sensei, you weren't at the gate like you said you'd be." Ako asked while the others greeted their classmates and bowed to the old man.

"Sorry girls I got a little side tracked." Naruto apologized while he scratched the back of his head.

"Well I better be on my way, it was nice meeting you Naruto-san," Hikaru said, lifting himself off the rock and held out his hand to Naruto, "It was an honor to meet you, young sage."

"It was nice to meet you too Hikaru-ojisan," Naruto said with a smirk, then leaned closer to the old man and whispered, "But you didn't have to call me a sage, I was keeping that a secret." The old man scratched the back of his head and apologized sheepishly before bidding goodbye to them all and started walking down the street towards the shrine.

"Naruto-sensei, what did he mean when he called you a sage, isn't that supposed to be for old men that have practiced it for years?" Misa asked.

Naruto silently cursed his luck, but he figured that now that they know, it'd be safer to give them a brief overview of it, "Well, I am a sage, I started my training less than a month ago and I completed it faster than my teacher had seen from any of his previous students." he explained as he puff up his chest with pride.

"So that means you're like some sort of prodigy!" some of the girls shouted, their jaws dropping as they stared at their newest sensei in shock.

"Is it really that surprising considering he is Negi-kun's older brother?" Madoka pointed out, which seemed to have made sense to the others while it only caused Naruto's shoulders to sag and his head to drop sadly.

"Please don't call me a prodigy…" Naruto muttered.

"Hmm? Why not Naruto-sensei?" Sakurako asked curiously.

Naruto frowned as Sasuke flashed through his mind, "…Never mind, it's nothing…" Naruto muttered, before he put on a grin, "So Fuuka-chan, Fumika-chan, who did you want to prank?" he asked, then huddled together with the twins as they began their plotting, unaware of Mana giving Naruto a curious look with a faint smile adorning her face.


Kaede was walking down the path that led towards the park, a note held in her hand as she read through it again. She had received it from group 1 as they and group 4 had met up while they were sight-seeing and she was given the note from Sakurako. After reading the directions it was obvious that this was another one of the twins' attempts to prank her, but she had decided to humor them.

As she walked through the park, Kaede caught a glimpse of a trip wire planted at foot level a few feet from her and stopped, "Strange, they're usually better than this" she thought, becoming increasingly suspicious of the area around her, finding a large bucket of water positioned over on the tree on her left. Deciding to whether or not this was some trick they were trying to pull, Kaede walked carefully towards the wire.

When she was only an inch or two from the wire she noticed another three wires that were set up at bust, neck, and eye level. Needless to say, Kaede was impressed, she hadn't noticed the other wires until she almost set them off, "It's seems they're trying their best today, but it's still not good enough..." she thought as she ducked under and stepped over the wires to be on her way, or so she thought. When she was nearly halfway, she noticed three more wires, one over her thigh, one a few inches from her stomach, and one behind the foot level wire, exactly where she had planned to step.

Kaede was simply amazed, the twins had never done this before, "How'd they come up with this?" she thought, one of her eyes opening as she let out a nervous smile. She slowly moved backwards, the ground beneath suddenly gave out, causing her to fall backwards, setting off all the wires. The bottom two wires rose up and caught Kaede's leg, preventing her from escaping while they hoisted her up in the air, while one by one the other wires wrapped around her body, leaving her in an awkward position with the wires tightly pressing against her body which caused her clothing to stretch themselves against her body.

Before Kaede could attempt to get out of the trap, she saw the bucket coming straight at her and stopped right in front of her thanks to the two wires on its handles, but Kaede was still splashed with the water.

"…They finally got me…" Kaede thought, before turning her head towards the rustling bushes ahead of her. Fuuka and Fumika appeared from the bushes, as well as Naruto, Mana, and group 3, all of them laughing while Naruto sported a sly grin on his face and even Mana had a faint smile.

"We got her, we finally got Kaede-nee," the twins shouted happily as they did a victory danced and hugged Naruto, shouting, "Thank you, Naruto-sensei!"

Naruto made his way towards Kaede, with the kunoichi noticing that her face was level with his, watching as Naruto gave her his trademark fox-grin, "Sorry about this, the twins wanted to prank you and we didn't have enough materials since it was short noticed." He said sheepishly.

Kaede shook her head, "It's fine Naruto-sensei, I'm just happy that they were finally able to prank me, de gozaru." She stated calmly, then adopted a curious look as Naruto's face started to flush a bit.

"Let's get you down, the water's starting to make your uniform see through…" Naruto muttered as he adverted his eyes, causing Kaede to look up. The water was indeed started to make her uniform showing more than it had originally intended to, not to mention that her panties were now showing since her skirt was falling down. Kaede's face gained a pink hue as she saw the position she was in while Naruto told the twins to let her loose.

The twins complied and went over to the tree on their left, Kaede saw that there was a wire wrapped around it that she deduced was the main wire that held the others together. The twins untied it and the wires came undone, causing Kaede to fall into Naruto arms bridal-style. As soon as she registered what was happening, Kaede felt her face heat up as she felt the blonde's muscles that were hidden beneath his jacket, and when she looked up at Naruto's concerned face she had to struggle to keep her face from blushing.

"You ok Kaede?" Naruto asked 3-A's kunoichi.

"I'm fine Naruto-sensei, de gozaru." Kaede told him.

The blonde shinobi set her down and discarded his jacket, not before secretly taking the two kunai he had out of the jacket's pocket and put them in one of the pockets of his pants, and handed it to the tall girl, "Here, cover yourself with it." Naruto told her as he adverted his eyes again.

She gratefully took the jacket and put it on, "Thank you, de gozaru." she thanked him.

"C'mon you two, we've to get back to the bus!" They heard Fuuka shout at them, they both turned to see the others looking back at them, clearly wanting to get moving so they wouldn't miss their ride back to the inn.

"Coming! Well Kaede, that's our cue." Naruto told her before joining the others, Kaede quickly following.

As the group made their way back, Kaede was approached by Mana, "Did you find out anything, de gozaru?" Kaede asked her classmate as the two put a bit of distance between them and the others.

Mana shook her head, "No, he didn't do anything out of the ordinary or even act any different than he usually is," she explained to the kunoichi, then pointed to the blonde shinobi's well toned muscles, "But as you've had the privilege of getting that close to him, you've already noticed that has had some sort of training, though we have no idea what for."

"So we've got nothing, de gozaru?" Kaede asked, but was surprised to see Mana shake her head again.

"Not exactly, there was an old man with Naruto-sensei when we met up with him after we visited the shrine. He called Naruto-sensei a sage, and Naruto-sensei admitted that he was one and said he completed his training in less than a month," Mana informed her, then asked, "Kaede, are you sure he's some sort of warrior?"

Kaede as she opened one eye and looked at Mana with a serious expression, "I'm sure of it, the way he talked about protecting those that were important to him, he sounded like a soldier who has experience more than his fair share of pain," she said as she put her hands in the jacket's pockets and felt something odd in it. She took out what was in it, and gained a curious gaze at the headband that had a metal plate with a symbol for a leaf etched in it, "Hmm, What's this, de gozaru?" she muttered as the two classmates continued to look at it.

"Why would Naruto-sensei have this strange headband?" Mana asked curiously.

"I don't know," Kaede responded as she placed the headband back into the pocket she had taken it out of, "But I guess it's another thing we don't know about him, de gozaru." the two then turned their attention back to said blonde, and for a moment they saw his eyes slightly in their direction and his grin seemed to turned into a sly one for an instant, then he went back with to the conversation he was having with Chao and Kuu.

"Do you get the feeling he left his headband in there for the two of us to find, de gozaru?" Kaede asked while she opened one of her eyes.

"Maybe, but I'm starting to see why you and Kuu are so interested in him." Mana said as she smirked, now she was convinced that there was more to her sensei than meets the eyes, and she was going to find out.

"Oh my, and you sounded like you weren't interested in him a few seconds ago," Kaede teased, which earned her a glare from her fellow classmate. The two continued to look at each other and if anyone were watching them, they would have been able to see the lightning clash between their eyes and they both new that another one of their competitions a started once again and this time it was over who would find out Naruto's secret first.

Unbeknownst to either of them, said blonde shinobi had taken one more glance in their direction, wondering whether or not it was a good idea to leave his hitai-ate in his jacket's pocket, and he sweat dropped as he saw the lighting between the two slightly taller girls, "Was that my fault?" he thought.


When Naruto got back to the inn, he saw Negi in the lobby and he was face was crimson blush on his face and a look that clearly said that he was in complete and utter shock, while Chamo sat by his side and stared at the young mage with a worried look as he ate. Suddenly Negi grabbed onto his head like he was having some sort of seizure, then suddenly jumped up and started rolling around.

"Okaay, what the heck happened to him while I was away?" he thought before walking to his little brother, "Hey Negi, what's the matter, did something happened when you went to Nara?" he asked.

Negi acted on reflex and told his older brother, "N-No, nothing happened Naruto-nii! Nobody confessed to me or anything!" but Negi

Unfortunately for Negi, he had forgotten that those quick excuses never fooled his older brother, "Huh, did you just say that someone just...confessed...to...you," he said, his voice trailing as the realization donned on him and he roared, "WHO THE HELL CONFESSES THEIR LOVE TO A 10 YEAR OLD!" he was about to go on a rant if Negi hadn't covered his mouth to prevent him from saying anything else.

"Naruto-nii I'm begging you, don't say it out loud!" Negi pleaded, but it was already too late. A few of the girls that had been watching Negi heard what their newest sensei had said and burst out of their hiding spot, surrounding the two boys.

"Is that true Negi-kun! Who was it!" Makie asked.

Negi began sputtering something strange about cooks or something like that before he bolted, "I-I've got a meeting with Shizuna-sensei, please excuse me!" he shouted as he and Chamo made their getaway, leaving a dumb-strucked Naruto while the girls gave chase. Naruto noticed Asuna and Setsuna watching the fleeing Negi at the other end of the hallway and approached them.

"Ok, what the hell happened while I was gone, who confessed to him?" he asked them.

"W-Well...um...it was Honya-chan, it kind of took the brat a little over the edge." Asuna said with a nervous laugh, only to receive a deadpanned look from Naruto who had raised an eyebrow in confusion.

"A 'little' over the edge, right," Naruto said sarcastically, he knew that his little brother looked like he was about to have a mental breakdown, "Who's Honya-chan by the way." he asked.

"That would be Miyazaki-san." Setsuna answered.

"So Nodoka confessed to him..." Naruto muttered then let out a sigh, he knew what was going on now, it was like when Hinata had confessed to him, except without the whole life-threatening and going berserk situation, "Don't worry about him, I know what to do." he told them before he started heading back towards his room.

"W-Wait Naruto, what are you gonna do?" Asuna asked as she and Setsuna followed him.

Naruto gave her a faint smile, "That Asuna, is something that only concerns me and my little brother," Naruto told her, and continued before Asuna had a chance to speak, "Like I said, don't worry about Negi, just leave him to me." he reassured her, but only got a light glare in return as they found themselves outside of Naruto's and Negi's room. The girls said their goodbyes and left while Naruto went inside and began thinking about what he should say to Negi.

A while later, Naruto found Negi where he thought he'd be, in the bath while it was reserved for teachers. Then again, this was the only place beside their room where he could find some peace and quiet so he could collect his thoughts without being bombarded by the girls.

"Oh, hey Naruto-nii..." Negi muttered pitifully as Naruto joined him and Chamo.

"Hey Negi." Naruto said, giving Negi a light smile, he could sympathize with what Negi was going through, but Chamo apparently wasn't getting the message.

"Naruto-nii, you've got to snap Aniki out of it, if that monkey woman tries anything again while he's in this state, he'll be useless!" Chamo whispered to the blonde, but only recieved a wink and a reassuring smile in returned. The three just sat in silence, with Naruto relaxing peacefully, waiting for Negi to ask him that question, while Negi began to fidget a bit, and Chamo looked between the two, hoping that Naruto would say something soon.

Negi soon broke the silence, "Naruto-nii, have you ever been confessed to?" he asked as he turned his head to his older brother.

Naruto stood silent for a few second before letting out a sigh and said, "Yeah, I've been confessed to twice," Naruto told him, "Negi, do you remember when I told you about my friends, do you remember Hinata and Sakura-chan?" he asked.

Negi nodded, "Yeah, Sakura was the your teammate and the one you had crush when you were a kid and I think Hinata was the shy girl that always stuttered when she was around you, right?" he asked, then the realization donned on him, "They confessed to you!" he shouted in shock.

Naruto let out his trademark fox-grin, "Yep, I know what you're going through," Naruto told him while deciding to avoid the fact that Sakura's confession was to get him to stop chasing after Sasuke, "I know that it was Nodoka that confessed to you, and I've seen how she acts. She and Hinata could be sisters if anyone saw them together, but enough about that, tell me how you felt when she confessed to you."

"Shocked to be honest, I'd only ever thought about her as one of my students." Negi answered, to which Naruto nodded, he'd expected that much.

"Sounds about right, listen Negi, I'm not going to force you to give her an answer or anything, you're only ten years old, you should be horrible with confessions like that, heck, I'm sixteen and I didn't know what to do when they both confessed to me. My only advice is to think about it, don't go rushing into things." Naruto advised his little brother.

"B-But I can't do that, Miyazaki-san deserves an answer and a-" Negi was cut off by Naruto.

"Negi, don't give me any of the 'English Gentleman' stuff, your only a kid, you shouldn't have to be making decisions like this when your that young. But if you have to, look in your heart and decide what's best for you, consider Nodoka's feelings, but choose what you want to do, not just because you feel you have to." Naruto told him as he ruffled Negi's hair.

Negi stood silent for a moment, then his face broke into a small smile, "Thank you Naruto-nii," Negi said gratefully, then asked, "Is that what your trying to do for Sakura and Hinata."

"...Yeah, but only for one of them." Naruto muttered.

Before Negi could ask what he meant by that, they were interrupted by Chamo telling them that someone else was entering the bath. They turned their heads towards the exit to see Shizuna enter the bath with only a towel on, which caused Negi to go wide-eyed and was blushing up a storm, while Naruto gain a light blush, then he suddenly his face turned into a frown, something wasn't right.

"Ara, Negi-sensei, Naruto-sensei, you both did great today," Shizuna greeted them with a smile, then crouched next to Negi, "Would you like me to wash you back?" she asked him, unaware of the curious look Naruto was giving her.

"N-No that's alright!" Negi squeaked and made to move away from her, but the female sensei lightly pulled him back to her.

She let out a small chuckle, "The truth is Negi-sensei, I know all about your little secret," she told him, shocking the two boys and the ermine, "You are a mage, right? And since Naruto-sensei is a close friend of yours then he would be one as well." the two boys looked at her in shock.

"Eeeh, d-did you hear that from the Headmaster!" Negi asked.

"I wouldn't know about that, but I have a request," Shizuna said, then gained a thoughtful expression, "I want to see Negi-kun's magic!"

"I-I can't do that! I-mmff!" Negi was cut off by Shizuna grabbing his head and burying him into her bust.

"Please show me Negi-kun!" Shizuna begged while Negi's arms began flailing about.

"Lucky Bastard," Naruto muttered, before it finally came to him, why hadn't it come to him sooner, and he was Jiraiya's student, "Uh, you can hit me if you want to Shizuna-sensei but aren't your breasts smaller than they usually are?" Naruto asked, shocking Shizuna enough to let go of Negi.

"Actually, I agree with Naruto-nii, did your breast get smaller Shizuna-sensei?" Negi asked as he scratched the back of his head.

"Wha-how rude, I happen to be the fourth largest in class, you know!" 'Shizuna' said, sounding a little offended at the two brother's comments on her breasts.

"Fourth largest in class, who are you!" Negi shouted.

"Damn, I've guessed you've figured it out, so I've got no choice. One moment I'm a big breasted teacher and the next, I'm a breaking news reporter," the imposter began as she took off her disguise, "My true identity is 3-A seat No.3, Asakura Kazumi!" she announced.

"AAh! Asakura-san!" Negi shouted in complete shock.

"This is bad Aniki, she's found us out! Erase her memory!" Chamo told Negi.

"Ras Tel-" Negi began while Naruto was about to make his own move, but they were both stopped by Asakura.

"Hold it," she interrupted them as she pulled out a cell phone from her towel, "You see this phone, don't you dare make a move! With one press of this send button, I'll send your secret straight to my homepage for the world to see!"

"Dammit, this isn't good, with Negi as he is right now something bad is bound to happen!" Naruto thought as he saw Asakura get closer to Negi with a microphone in her hand, leaving Naruto to wonder where she got that.

"W-Why are you doing this?" Negi asked as he backed away from the red haired reporter.

Asakura let out a small chuckle at the question, "Because it's a scoop, it's all for the sake of the scoop! Sorry about this Negi-sensei, but I'm going to have you and Naruto-sensei cooperate with my global ambition." she told him.

"A-Ambition?" Negi asked, worried.

"That's right, I'll have the eyes of the world on me with my discovery of real live mages! I'll have exclusive interviews, and the newspapers and magazines of the world crawling at my feet," Asakura explained her vision of fame, "And you two, Negi-sensei and Naruto-sensei, will star in TV dramas and novels produced by me, you two will even get a Hollywood movie as we go worldwide!"

"Me being in another movie, that doesn't sound so bad." Naruto commented, causing the bath's other occupants to look at him with three different faces, happy, confused, and near tears.

"See I knew you'd come around!" Asakura said happily.

"You were in a movie, Naruto-nii?" Chamo asked.

"Naruto-nii," Negi cried as he flailed his arms, "I-I don't want any of that, if everyone finds out that I'm a mage, I'll be turned into an ermine!"

"No prob! I guarantee you both will have an equal share in the profits, Naruto-kun, Negi-kun," Asakura told them with a thumbs up, then placed her hands on Negi's shoulders, "So how about it Negi-kun, do you feel like showing me some magic now?" she asked.

"Oh no, this isn't good," Naruto thought as he looked at his little brother, who looked like he was about to have a mental breakdown, "Negi was already under a lot of pressure before, and if you add this, it's only a matter of seconds before he blows!" and right on cue, when Asakura asked him if he was bored being a teacher, Negi let out a wail, which was powered up by his wind magic going berserk, resulting in a huge blast of wind to surround him.

While Chamo was barely hanging on to the rocks and Naruto was holding his own thanks to his chakra leaving secured on the bath's floor, Asakura was as lucky as them and was blown away by Negi's magic. Negi immediately realized what he had done and grabbed his staff.

"Dammit all!" Naruto cursed as he jumped into the air and caught Asakura bridal style, although he didn't prevent Negi from flying on his staff towards them and Asakura taking a picture of him.

"Yes, Negi-kun finally used magic and I got a perfect shot then!" Asakura exclaimed.

Naruto ignored that comment while his little brother began to worry again, "You alright," he asked in a worried tone as they landed on top of the water, thanks to Naruto sending chakra to his feet before they hit the water, then fell into the water as he released the chakra. Asakura took a moment to realize the position she was in and felt her cheeks beginning to heat up as a blush appeared on her face, but she was able to nod, "Good...you know you look cuter with your hair like that." Naruto complimented her, causing the red haired girl's blush to match her hair in color as he gently set her down.

The reporter quickly regained her composure, "O-Oh yeah, take a look at my conclusive evidence," she showed everyone the photo and they all saw that her phone's screen was cracked, "Aah, my phone's broken!" she shouted, while Negi let out a sigh of relief and Naruto ruffled his hair and gave Negi a grin.

"Hey, what's going on in there! What's with those crying sounds!" came a familiar voice from the bath's exit. A second later, Ayaka, Makie, Yuna, Fuuka, and Asuna came through the exit and found the three of them, needless to say, most of them weren't happy with the scene that was in front of them.

"Asakura-san, I asked you investigate, and you go and do this!" Ayaka screamed as she and Makie bum rushed their classmate.

"What are you doing naked with Negi-kun and Naruto-kun!" Makie half-asked, half-screamed, while Asakura screamed for help.

"Uhh, I think I'll be leaving right now..." Naruto muttered as he began moving towards the exit.

"Right behind you Naruto-nii!" Negi agreed.

"Wait just a minute, you two! Just what the hell were you both doing!" Asuna shouted and made to stop, but the brothers were faster.

"Run for it Negi!" Naruto shouted and the both of them bolted for the exit while stopping only to grabbed their clothes, never noticing that a certain perverted ermine had stayed behind to converse with Asakura.


Hoped you all liked it.

First off, the old man scene, I needed to use something as an excuse for why no one was able to sense Naruto's prescense while he was in sage mode in chapter 2 and it seemed like a good point in time to start improving Naruto's relationship with Kaede and Mana. I've figured Naruto would need this ability in case of some situations but I won't reveal anything yet, and I'm limiting this ability to about 2-3 minutes at most, because then it would be to good of a skill.

Second, I'm taking a week or so off on writing chapter 9 because of SAT's (Although I got a 1360 on my first test, it's my mom's idea) and writing the first chapter of a new story I'm writing, but don't worry I'll get it done.

See you all next time.