Chapter eleven

Naruto was… Surprised at the state of the room and the loud music playing and the mumbling Skylar as she typed and then wrote down something and flipped the page over. Naruto walked carefully into the room so he didn't step on any piece of paper and looked at what she was doing.

"Skylar, I think you need a break." Naruto said bending down to her ear and laying a hand on her shoulder.

"I'll rest when I'm dead." She said as she looked up at the screen and pulled up some other files, information on every single thing she had on the Naruto world.

"True but then you'd miss out on this." He said as he turned her chair around to face him and threw her over his shoulder and stepped out of the room carefully with a squirming and shouting Skylar.

"Put me down Naruto, now's not the time, I was just onto something!" She shouted and Naruto finally put her down but turned her to look into the training hall and she lost her anger and ability to make speeches. In the middle of the training hall was a blanket with two cushions and a plate with cut up fruit on it. Naruto was grinning.

"Told you that you'd miss out if I didn't pull you from your work… What do you think?" Naruto asked as he smiled nervously at his work. Skylar was still finding it hard to speak and she began to tear up with a small smile… She turned and hugged him and buried her face against his collar of his jumpsuit and cried and Naruto pulled her back to look at her with a worried face.

"Please don't cry, why are you crying… I didn't mean to offend you or anything I just thought…" Naruto said, panicked but he stopped when she stood up on the balls of her feet and kissed his whiskered cheek and hugged him again with her arms around his neck and his around her waist. Naruto was flushing so hard as he smiled then grinned and nuzzled into her neck and she let out a little giggle before she pulled away with a blush, took his hand and led him over to the blanket and the sat down and ate in a comfortable silence, staring into each other's eyes.

When they were finished eating and feeding each other, Skylar pulled him off of his cushion and placed them next to each other and lay him down and she joined him with their heads on the pillows and she entwined her hand with his with both of them blushing. It was true what people said about Naruto, he was like a light in the darkness and could break down the walls you build around your self and Skylar had fallen in love with the blonde troublemaker and powerful jinchuuriki. She flushed at this thought and unconsciously squeezed his hand harder and he returned it.

"So what were you so wrapped up in before I pulled you away from it?" Naruto asked as he rested his other arm across his stomach.

"I was going through Orochimaru's experiment files to understand him better and try to get an advantage but I'm no doctor so half the stuff was like gibberish to me." Skylar said as she scooted closer to Naruto's warmth.

"Well he was always obsessed with immortality and the sharingan, not even the Sandaime could understand him or Ero Sennin… I mean uh Jiraiya-sensei… I wonder what he's doing under the Tsukuyomi?" Naruto wondered with a slight nervous chuckle. They both stared up at the ceiling in their own thoughts for a while.

"Yeah that would be a sight to see." Skylar mused with a smile as she turned her head to look at Naruto's still flushed face. Naruto felt her looking at him and he turned his head to look at her beautifully flushed face and admired her lovely purple eyes and trailed down, taking in her cheeks, nose and stopping at her plump pink lips and unconsciously leaned closer as did Skylar as she closed her eyes and they leaned closer and closer and their lips were just about to touch… Skylar's eyes flew open and she sat up suddenly as her eyes moved back and forth with concentrated furrowed brows, thinking about what she knows and what Naruto just said.

"You don't think… Tobi, Madara and Orochimaru are working together do you… Well Orochimaru being forced under the Tsukuyomi I mean?" Skylar asked as Naruto sat up next to her.

"Why do you think that?" Naruto asked, a bit disappointed she got distracted.

"Well, Tobi kept the extra sharingan with him and we don't know where Orochimaru is however one person only has one life like the Rikudo Sennin which is why he separated the Jyuubi into nine tailed beasts in the first place… Orochimaru specializes in all things immortality and experiments. Madara and him have both experimented with the Shodia Hokage's cells and Madara proved how much more powerful the sharingan and Senju clan cells are together and where did it originate… Konoha… They could possibly be testing elite Konoha shinobi to turn them into the perfect jinchuuriki to make them like Madara and then using Orochimaru's special soul transferee and make a new and more powerful Tobi to finally finish his plans and keep making Tobi a new body each time so they can rule forever since Madara is just a reanimation himself… If this is true, we're screwed unless we stop him soon." Skylar said as she turned to finally face Naruto. He sighed and closed his eyes tiredly… This could very well be the ultimate goal which is why they haven't made any sort of move yet but there was no proof. He opened his blue eyes seriously.

"Everything you said could be true but we have no proof and no idea where Orochimaru is. We'll talk to the entire group once they get back and see what Shikamaru says and do some more recon and plan from there. You think way to much sometimes Skylar." Naruto said with a smile at the end as he linked his hands together and lay back down on the cushion. Skylar thought about this and blushed, she definitely over thought a lot since she got there and Smiled back at Naruto as she lay down and put her head on his chest with an embarrassed smile and her hand also on his chest as she cuddled up to him and closed her eyes. Naruto smiled and took one hand from behind his head and wrapped his arm around her back and rested his hand on her waist as he let out a happy and content sigh as he closed his eyes.

"Hey, I was thinking… Maybe you could teach me the rasengan and rasen-shuriken some time. I realised in the last battle that I was a bit short on those." Skylar smiled onto his chest and moved her arm from his chest to wrap around his stomach.

"Well I suppose rasengan is fine but rasen-shuriken is a wind natured technique and we haven't even begun on any chakra natures on you and we don't even know yours." He said calmly.

"Really?" She asked lifting her head and resting her chin on the back of her hand on his chest to look up at him. He cracked open one eye and looked down at her. "I'm wind natured like you, Kakashi's already tested that and it should be obvious plus I have sage mode so I'll be fine to use it plus it's your own personal jutsu and I'd be honoured to learn it… Naruto-sensei." Skylar said with a smirk and a blush at his nickname, he also blushed and laughed as she rested her head back onto his chest. Naruto moved his hand from her hip and began playing with her hair… He liked his mother's hair when he met her and it was just one shade lighter than hers and her eyes were a bright purple unlike his mother's violet colour. Now that he thought about it Skylar looked a lot like his mother all the same except the slight differences as well as her body shape, from what he saw she was skinny but not to skinny and Skylar was skinny with some muscles that were easily seen when she used them and he realised how his father fell for his mother the way he did for Skylar.

"Fine I'll teach them to you but I'll let Kaka-sensei help since he helped me a lot to create rasen-shuriken… We'll get started when they come back." Naruto said and Skylar nodded. "You know you look a lot like my mother." Naruto said.

"And you look a lot like your dad except for your facial features and personality… Does it bother you… That I look so much like your mom?" Skylar questioned and Naruto could feel her tense up for rejection.

"No it doesn't, it just makes me realise how my parents fell for each other so easily… Hey Skylar?" Naruto asked apprehensively and Skylar made a hum to say she was listening. "What is 'this' now?" He asked as she rolled onto her stomach and linked her fingers together across his stomach and leaned her chin on them to look at him.

"Call it whatever you want to… Boyfriend, girlfriend, dating, couple, I don't care as long as I'm around you… I see how you open up peoples hearts now and I feel blessed to have met all of you and when all of this is over… I don't know what will happen, if I'll return to my dimension or not but I'll never forget this and I'll never get close to anyone else again." Skylar said up to him with a sad smile.

"The speech you made when we returned home… you surprised me but you made me get back onto my nindo way and point me back on the right direction, hell, you even made Sasuke happier and I've never seen him smile or smirk so much before in my life." Naruto laughed nervously and Skylar smiled tenderly. It felt like a weight of worry was lifted from Skylar's shoulders and she twisted again onto her side and moved up to burry her head in his neck and wrap her one arm over him as he wrapped his arms around her and leaned his head against hers with his eyes closed with content. Naruto had a calming scent like warmth if she could explain it, the feeling of being out in the warm sun when it was a cold day. His chakra felt like the warm sun when he used it and it was a calm and almost swishing noise in the back of her head and she liked it.

Naruto had never felt this way about anyone before. Sure he liked Sakura but it was a more family oriented way and Hinata… Well she was his friend and a very sweet girl and fought for what she believed in, he did like her but this girl right here in his arms had brought him into his light path again and stolen his heart from the first time he saw her. He remembered why he attacked her when he first saw her, she looked too much like his mother and thought someone was playing a sick joke on him and then she broke Gaara out of the Tsukuyomi. Her voice, her chakra and her whole self screamed for him, cried for him and his friends, it was pure and she broke through his shell and brought the old Naruto back. Her scent was like the wind itself, clean, pure and untampered with but with something dark from her past laying underneath.

"Wow this brings back memories." Kakashi mused from above their heads, leaning over and looking down at them.

"Told you a date would distract her." Sasuke mused from their one o'clock. Skylar sighed as she sat up and Naruto opened his eyes to glare at Sasuke.

"I thought you just left?" Skylar asked as she yawned and stretched.

"That was four days ago… Did Naruto only pull you out of your work today?" Kakashi asked with a bit of anger and his visible eye twitching at Naruto who had also sat up now. Naruto grinned sheepishly and rubbed that back of his head.

"Guess I better run, I'll clean this up later." Naruto called as he got up and ran with Kakashi close behind and Skylar watched with confusion as Sasuke came to sit where Naruto was.

"How'd the trip go?" Skylar asked to make conversation as she turned to face Sasuke.

"It went fine… We restricted Ino though for you." Sasuke said as he examined his katana, Kusanagi. A few seconds later they heard Kakashi use a thousand years of pain and Naruto scream in horror and Skylar laughed while Sasuke smirked.

"You know, I really want to know what that technique feels like but by the sound of it, it's something I should go through my whole life without knowing." Skylar said as she smiled towards the sound and Sasuke smirked with a Hn.

"Oh. Hell. No." Was all you heard Skylar say when she looked in the mirror with a grinning Sakura and Ino behind her with Anko grinning in the corner and Hinata quietly sitting on the bed.

"Ino, what did I say about annoying flappy bits?" Skylar asked, plucking at them. Ino smacked her hand and smiled back at Skylar in the mirror. Skylar was now wearing a black sports bra like top, showing her breasts off quite well with security in each cup from the sweet heart neck line and came down to just above her naval, fitting tightly with tight black shorts that went half way down her thigh, just past the strappings for her shuriken holsters and a little maroon apron like skirt that sat over her bum and stopped where her shorts stopped and sat far enough back so it didn't get caught when she reached for her shurikens and knee high shinobi sandals like Sakura's and replaced her strappings on her shins, she also was now wearing black strappings on her hands from the first knuckles on her fingers up to her elbows. They also got her maroon holsters and pouches, packed with new weapons and such. They even went so far as to tie her hair back into a plat but loose at the top and they deemed her ready. Skylar sighed, it was bad leaving your style in Ino's hands and she gave in, making the girls clap for Skylar who felt very naked compared to what she had been wearing for almost half a year now.

"Ino, you're forgetting the last addition to her outfit." Hinata said with an apologetic smile to Skylar. Ino perked up at this and rummaged through the bag and shouted 'ah ha' when she found it and tied it around Skylar's head and turned her back to the mirror and Skylar finally smiled. It was a hitai-ate on maroon material to match the rest of her outfit and had the kanji for 'shinobi' on it like during the war. She untied it though and tied it around her neck like Hinata wore hers, untied her hair and found her outfit to be complete. Luckily the other clothes she asked for weren't as… 'revealing' as Skylar would put it. It was the one side to the world of dance she had always hated but never thought about, the revealing costumes but there were always a good purpose to them being like that and she knew and accepted it. Skylar stood still enough to enter sage mode and check it out with the black coat she got with the dragons on it and they all went surprisingly well with each other so she decided to be a bit easier on Ino and let sage mode go again.

"Come on, we have to show everyone else." Ino and Sakura said as they grabbed each of her arms and pulled her towards the chilling room with Hinata and Anko who was smirking behind. "Now presenting the new Skylar." They announced happily and pulled Skylar to the front of the room and left her there for the guys to look at and she blushed and heard a thump and looked towards the noise. She saw Naruto with a hard blush on his face, sitting on the floor and rubbing his lower back but he couldn't take his eyes off of her. Skylar smirked and leaned on one leg with her hand on her hip.

"Decided to attack the floor backwards huh?" She asked with a smirk and Naruto laughed nervously and quickly scrambled out of the room. Anko was laughing and so was Ino, Skylar looked at them then looked back to the room in front of her and felt like she wanted to run. Damn hormone crazed and sex deprived ninja, she felt like a piece of meet in front of their eyes and she stood up with square shoulders and looked them straight on, daring them to try something and they all backed down once they saw her hair whipping around a little and Skylar smirked with accomplishment.

"I would have hated to see what Ino would have made our little Skylar wear if it wasn't for our restrictions." Kakashi mused from one corner of the room reading his porn like usual. He flipped the book closed and shoved it into his pouch and stood up and walked up to Skylar and slung an arm over her shoulder. "How do you like the hitai-ate?" He asked down to her with an eye smile and she smiled back up at him.

"I feel honoured to receive it yet alone actually wear it. Thanks to everyone for making me feel like part of the family." Skylar said to Kakashi then the rest of the group who gave some sort of acknowledgment and Kakashi steered her out and down the halls. "Hey, Naruto agreed to teach me rasengan and rasen-shuriken but he wants you to help out, would you mind? I found that in my last fight with Tobi I was a bit short on ninjutsu and kind of screwed." Skylar said with a frown as she kept her eyes on the floor. "Also, I thought of something disturbing while you were away on the supply trip…" Skylar looked up into Kakashi's one visible eye with concern and Kakashi nodded and Skylar began to explain and she could feel his hand tighten on her arm as they proceeded to the training hall.

"We'll definitely need to check out Kumo and send some recon in. First of all, we need to know Madara and Tobi's plans and then find Orochimaru. It is a plausible idea that you thought of but we need evidence first before we can create a plan of action against it." Kakashi said to her with a reassuring tone but stress hidden underneath.

"It's Kumo so a hawk wouldn't stick out badly to send that type of summons. Toads, tortoises, snakes or dogs will be to easy to spot in such a climate, your ninken are too recognisable unfortunately. Though, Katsuyu might be of help but we'll have to be careful as she's also recognisable and…" Skylar began to over think before Kakashi put a hand over her mouth with an eye smile. Skylar noticed she was rambling again and gave Kakashi an eye smile of her own as he removed his hand from her mouth.

"Right, now that we've finished with that… I decided you need more training first. You rely too much on your sensing ability and sight so we're going to work on your smell and hearing." Kakashi began to explain as he dug in his pouch and brought out the familiar black blindfold and tied it around her eyes and Skylar instantly felt herself rely on her sensing abilities.

"I can still sense you so how is this going to work?" She asked. But then she smelt a new scent enter the room and heard the swishing of air before something hit her chest and knocked her back flying and she slid across the ground until she stopped and groaned. She pushed herself up onto her elbows and moved the blindfold up to see Lee standing next to Kakashi and she rolled her eyes. She let the blindfold fall back over her eyes and stood up and waited for another attack. She listened and waited and turned her head as she heard the wind as Lee moved and tried to keep herself calm as she followed his movements and ducked as she heard a swish over her head and swung her leg out but it connected with nothing.

"You're still a bit off and you'll have to be faster to catch Lee." Kakashi called, standing calm and still in the same place so he didn't put Skylar off. She stood up defensively again and waited. Her gut and sounds told her to block right and jab left just off to her right and she did it and knocked Lee's fist away and actually connected this time but he was gone in a flash again.

After a long time, Skylar was sore and tired as well as frustrated which caused her to loose focus as she was sent flying again, the wind being knocked out of her. She hit the ground and rolled quite a bit before stopping on her hands and knees, muscles shaking from exhaustion and anger. She stood up and stumbled and she wiped at her mouth and she was angry and felt her chakra flare with rage as the wind started to whip around and it told her where Lee was. It was almost like a radar, like when Gaara used his sand to locate the giant clam during the war and the wind continued to rage and she moved in a flash to in front of Lee and began an onslaught of her own and followed him wherever he would go.

Kakashi knew she had reached her limit and nearly called the training off when he felt the familiar wind pick up and Skylar was attacking Lee as if she could see and sense him and decided to join in the fun as he charged a Chidori and charged in. Skylar felt Kakashi's chakra flare in the back of her head, his chakra felt like his lightning blade sounded then she realised he had a Chidori and heading straight for her. Quickly dodging an attack from Lee, she twisted and knocked Lee away for his own safety and used the wind to tell her Kakashi's position as she charged straight for him. As he was about to hit her chest and discharge his attack, she grabbed the inside of his wrist and pushed it out to the side and ducked to give him a good upper hook punch in his stomach, making him double over and loose his Chidori.

Sasuke and Naruto had walked in on the training and watched as Lee beat her around and Sasuke was making sure Naruto didn't get involved when the wind picked up and she started an onslaught of her own, making both of them smirk. They noticed Kakashi pull his hitai-ate up and charge a Chidori and Naruto tensed while Sasuke activated his sharingan to see what she would do. She knocked Lee away easily and charged in for Kakashi but in a flash, the Chidori was knocked away and Kakashi was doubled over on her punch and stood like that for a few seconds before Kakashi fell to his knees and gasped for air and the two guys rushed in to check them.

Skylar felt his knees buckle and his chest desperately try to suck in air around her fist as she dislodged it and helped him to kneel and pull of her blindfold with worried eyes. She pushed him to sit up straight and patted his back hard once so he sucked in a much-needed breath and coughed a little with some pants.

"Kaka-sensei, are you alright?" Naruto and Lee asked as they rushed over with Sasuke walking calmly behind them with a smirk.

"Amazing… Yes, I'm fine." Kakashi breathed out as he tried to breath properly again.

"I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to hit you so hard Kakashi." Skylar said, rubbing his back.

"It's fine, I was willing to accept the hits to test something… You might be able to learn the Chidori as well if you're good at sensing like this and with the wind's help, it will be like you have the sharingan… I'm sure Sasuke won't mind teaching you his modified Chidori's either." Kakashi said with an eye smile and Sasuke just hn'ed. Skylar smacked him hard across the arm with a stubborn pout.

"Don't you ever do that to me ever again… I felt so helpless and I thought I had seriously hurt you." Skylar said with anger and command.

"Do you need me for anything else Kaka-sensei?" Lee asked. Kakashi shook his head and Lee headed out to train with Guy in the prisoner arena. Skylar felt frustrated as she stood up and walked away while running a hand through her hair and took a deep breath to calm down. She turned back to them, using her frustration that had turned to anger to keep training.

"Let's start with the rasengan and swap between Chidori and rasengan as I get through each stage." Skylar said determinedly and Naruto grinned and tossed her a water balloon and she began.