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Chapter 20

A/N: Sorry it took so long, but I was kept busy with Life. But's here's a new chapter!

thor94: Ah...sorry to say you got it wrong.

Mr. Crimson: The answer is within the previous chapters.

"No."

"Yes."

"Hell. No." Naruto stated gritting through each syllable.

"Hell. Yes!" Kurama replied, slatted eyes cackling with madness and glee.

"…You want me to get killed, don't you?" He asked seriously turning towards the seriously deranged fox.

"Oh stop being a pussy and fight the damn thing!" Kurama continued cackling insanely.

"Then why don't you fight it!" He shot back. "Why is that thing even here to begin with!?" Naruto exclaimed with a tad of fear creeping into his voice.

Rewarding him with a look of mild irritation, Kurama grunted. "Don't know, don't care," He replied bluntly. "But what I do know is that I'm fucking hungry, so just kill it and give me my food!" He demanded as if he was an irritated King ordering his meager Chef to give him his damn steak…which is exactly what he's asking for.

"And you speak as if I gave a damn!" Pointing towards the foul beast that sent shivers up his spine where Torazuki failed, he hissed, "That thing will kill me with the limitations you put on me!"

"Just fight the damn thing already or I'm stuffing you in a bag as naked as the day you were born before tossing you in the nearest Kunoichi only Hot-fucking-spring you stupid blonde fishcake!"

Blinking, he simply glared at the leering fox with the utmost loathing. "You're a perverted little coat, aren't you?" He muttered with a scowl before snorting. "And no offense, but Ashe'll turn you into a coat if you tried that." He stated bluntly.

Snorting in response, Kurama simply retorted in response. "Please, all I gotta do is trick her into the Shinobi section and she'd be putty." He scoffed dismissively. "Besides, at least you'd get a small glimpse of heaven before dropping straight down into hell."

Staring blankly, he twitched. "You are one fucked up fox, dattebayo." He didn't even bother feeling embarrassed that his verbal tick is returning. He only felt exasperated. "Why would it be heaven to you anyway? You're a fox!"

Said fox stared at him with an unimpressed expression. "And, your point," He asked bluntly. "There is one universal truth. And that truth is that all Kunoichi's are HOT!" Kurama stated loudly. "I dare you to name ONE ugly Kunoichi. I dare you!"

Blinking, Naruto was about to make a scathing retort only to blink. Thinking about the question for a bit, he recalled all the Kunoichi's he's met and…and in truth, he couldn't really call any of them ugly. Even the Haruno, if it wasn't for her violent tendencies, would be considered pretty to him. "Can't come up with an answer, can you brat!" Eye's twitching at the smugness in Kurama's voice; he hummed in extreme annoyance before shooting a glare at the snickering fox. "I restate; you are one fucked up fox." He stated bluntly.

Shrugging, not really caring about a human's opinion of him, Kurama simply kept on grinning. "Oh please, you know I'm right gaki." He said. "Your sister's female classmates would all turn into lookers in the future if they live long enough. Heck, just look at the last generation!" Oh he wished he could muzzle this fox. "I ain't a mutt runt, and even you admit that they're hot. You even called that red headed devil you call a Mother beautiful, and crazy as she was being my last container and all, even I admit that she was hot!" He's really considering neutering this Ero-kitsune. "Try it and it'll be the last thing you think." Damn mind reading foxes. "Just get to killing the thing and I'll shut up. My hunger is overpowering my overwhelming need to annoy the fuck out of you."

Eye's twitching, Naruto simply hummed in silent irritation before turning to the 'thing' at hand. Their outburst's drawn its bloody red beady eyes that seemed to stare into your very soul. Its bone white fur streaked with the blood of its recent victim, all of which happened to be a bloody smear scattered around the clearing like dried puddles. Its long ear's twitching at the slightest sound made, as if it was able to hear the flapping of a flies wings for miles on—"Just kill the damn rabbit already!" Kurama shouted interrupting his train of thought.

And despite the fox's interruption, his opponent would indeed be a fluffy white rabbit. A rabbit whose nose twitches as it tilted its head to the side in curiosity. A rabbit whose fur was streaked in blood, smelled like blood, and was surrounded by small craters big enough for his head to fit in. Said craters were also filled with blood…and the occasional eyeball if you want more detail. A rabbit whose single bucked tooth was currently nibbling on what was to be a charred black carcass. Of what, he didn't want to know, but can kinda guess despite that.

And the only reason why the demonic little rat wasn't tearing into his throat was because of the seals that stretched around the clearing separating the forest from it. 'Like a cage, now that I think about it.' A very strong and transparent cage too.

Turning to glare at the clearly asinine fox, he simply hummed in annoyance before turning back to face the rabbit. He already had suspicions that the book was connected to the Lost Chapter, or the era that Ashe was born into. And the only creatures shown in said book would be a Basilisk, Gremlins, Shadow Creatures, Chimaera's, Undead, Homunculi, Mr. and Ms. Frankenstein, Medusa, Necromancer's, Fae, King's, Mystic Dire Wolves. There were plenty of supernatural creatures, and one of them he recalled in passing would be some sort of combat rabbit.

Staring at it, Naruto frowned. "So…what were the restrictions again?" He asked.

"Ah…so you're going to fight."

"…just give me the damn information." He retorted dryly.

Staring blankly, eyes blazing yet cold, Kurama chuckled. "No Wind and Water Magic," He stated with a yawn. "This lesson is not meant to be taken as a human, but an animal. A beast, carnivore," Slitted gaze drifting over to the rabbit, he grinned ferally. "A Demon…that is what you're meant to act like in this test. Killing it with but your own two hands and feet, ripping it to shreds, dismembering it, maiming it, and most importantly, surviving." Ear's twitching, he flexed his claws. "You got that." His tone stated that he wasn't going to repeat it, so Naruto simply nodded with a grimace.

"I'm putting ten pounds of laxative in your next meal." He said bluntly. Before he made any motion of crossing into the barrier however, the rabbit sensed his intentions, and acted. And just on time, the rabbit began to twitch for a couple moments as its eyes bulged dangerously out of its tiny skull. The sound of cracks and snapping of bones echoing in the clearing as the rabbit in front of him began to snort streams of fire from its nose. Its red eyes getting a small pitch black slit at its center as its form began to grow dangerously in size.

Taking a couple steps back, flinching inwardly every time a crack of bones sounded, he watched as two bulges began to push against the inside of the rabbits furry skin right below its forepaws. Speaking of paws, they started to split into five separate strips of flesh like fingers only for the tips to be pointed like a clause. Taking a couple more steps back, he watched as its torso began to grow in size bulging in several places as it stood on its hind legs. After a couple more minutes, Naruto stared passively while gapping inwardly at the 'rabbits' transformation.

Right in front of him was a monster that stood at a full seven foot height while standing on its hind legs. Its torso being disturbingly human shaped with equally disturbing muscles on its human shaped arms with claw tipped fingers. Its head was larger, but it was basically the same besides the slitted pupils in its red eyes and the streams of fire and smoke emanated from its red nose. He noted its bucktooth being split in two with the tip being sharpened to a dagger like serrated tip, its other teeth being equally as sharp but much more numerous in numbers. Whatever skin he saw before had now been replaced with onyx scales that glinted ominously in the sunlight. Black veins popping out from under the scales like an intricate network of borders considering the small red stream of blood flowing through them. Its ears were sharper and its feet were much longer with claws jutting out of each toe.

"Kurama…" Naruto started.

"What, gaki?" Why can't the brat just kill the damn thing already? So it got a tiny bit bigger, it's not like it isn't that cute little rat from before that would soon be swimming pleasantly down his throat. He guessed that the brat was frightened of the overgrown rat, and he was just about to call him out on it when the fishcake opened his mouth.

"I'm keeping it." And with those words, the rabbit opened its maw, strips of flames flickering between its jagged teeth, and let out an earth shattering roar the shook the ground around them. His hair whipping back from the force of the wind that had been blown away just like the cracks splintering along the ground around its clawed toes, "…I'm defiantly keeping it now."

(With Team 7—Thirty Minutes Later)

Wincing lightly at the sound of the roar, Sakura turned towards her female teammate with a look of disbelief, a bit of fear shining in her bright emerald eyes. "Just what the hell is your brother doing?" She asked looking into the woods. Something that Sasuke was curious about as well, but wouldn't admit.

Staring blankly, Natsumi shrugged. "Honestly, no clue." She stated bluntly. "As I said, I hardly even know what the hell he does now a days. But I know where he's going to be." Natsumi muttered darkly, thoughts on the photo from before still fresh in her mind.

"Hn," The friendly neighborhood Uchiha grunted. "Natsumi, if I were to challenge the dope," Sasuke started slowly, once again asking the same question, only to a different person. "…Who would win?"

"Naruto," She replied bluntly without a hint of hesitation. In fact, she wasn't even paying attention, preferring to use her time in trying to find her brother and strangling out all of the blackmail photos out of his scrawny little neck. "Offense intended Uchiha, but Naruto is most likely if not far stronger than me." She explained sensing that Sakura was about to explode in denial. "Probably because he was spending most if not all of his time training by himself with access to our families Justu Archive…" Stopping for a moment, she blinked. "Which is not something I believe Naruto even used now that I think about it."

Glare lightening at Natsumi's quick explanation, Sakura blinked. "Wait…so your brother's self-taught?" She asked confusion lacing her tone.

This caught the Uchiha's attention, as well as a bit of his ire. He, who does the exact same thing his teammate, is saying, yet the very same teammate bluntly announced that he would lose despite that. What's the difference between the both of them? He didn't know. But if the dope is truly stronger than him, then he has just found himself a new sparring partner.

"I don't think that's it Sakura." Kakashi finally interjected from his spot walking behind them.

"What do you mean Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura asked curiously.

Blinking, Sasuke stopped for a moment before grunting. "Does it have anything to do with the Cecilia woman the dope mentioned a while back?" He asked.

Eye-smiling, Kakashi nodded even as his eyes never left his book. "Yep," He chirped. "While it's just a guess, this Cecilia woman was probably the one who taught Naruto how to fight." Turning back to his book, he simply flipped the page.

"What the scarecrow said," Natsumi continued with a nod. "While we had to go to the Academy, Naruto was possibly being trained by this Cecilia he's so fond of." Call her petty, but the thought of another woman taking Naruto's time away when he's supposed to be with his family irritated her. She completely disregarded the fact said family basically ignored Naruto for the majority of his life. "And I have no clue at what age he started, so it'd only be natural that he'd be stronger since he had a single teacher to focus on him as well as the free time since he didn't go attend the Academy with us."

"Ah~, sounds like someone's jel—"Jerking his head to the right, a hard slick reached his ears. Staring blandly at the absent minded girl who wasn't even paying attention, he huffed in irritation while completely ignoring the golden bladed chain stabbed into the tree right next to his head. "…I don't know whether to be upset as your sensei, or worried that you weren't even paying attention when you did that." He drawled lazily. "I'll just go with both!" He chirped after a moments silence before returning to his book.

Blinking, Natsumi simply turned her apathetic gaze towards her sensei with a confused tilt of her head. "Ah...you say something?" Sakura simply gaped along with Kakashi at how Natsumi was acting, though begrudgingly enough, Sasuke interest was piqued.

Before he could express it in his usual Uchiha way, another roar split the air around them. Shaking the trees and splintering chips of wood clattering on the dirt path. For no sooner after that, a familiar streak of orange caught their attention. "I guess that explains where Naruto is." Kakashi noted voicing out their thoughts.

And with that thought in mind, Natsumi shot ahead with a flat expression on her face. The other's simply followed behind without hesitation, only to slowly come to a stop at the sight they were seeing. Halting completely right next to Natsumi behind the tree's as a bizarre sight took place.

Kakashi nearly dropped his book. Sakura simply fainted. Sasuke stared at the sight before him with utmost concentration and outright disbelief. And Natsumi simply watched in slight awe as her brother continued to weave around a giant bipedal mutated rabbits fists.

With sweat gleaming down his pores, Naruto jumped high into the air dodging the rabbit's incoming fist. Only to slam the palm of his hands on its knuckles before twisting his waist around slamming his feet up the rabbit's jaw jerking its head back an inch, but quickly recovered to grab him with its free hand. Laying his body flat against the creatures arm at the last second, the clawed hand swiped nothing but air.

Clicking his tongue, he wrapped his legs around its arm and slid off his spot dodging the palm that slammed down on his previous spot. And like a spider monkey, he spun around regaining his foothold on the creatures arms by holding onto the hairline cracks in its scales when he slammed the bottom of his arm onto the ground making his teeth shake. Before a moment passed though, he shot forward and slammed his knees into the rabbits face before grabbing its sharp ears and pulling himself over its head. Bending his knees, he twisted his waist around in the air before slamming his knee's right in the center of its back making it lurch back for but a second. And in that moment, Naruto snapped open his legs and slammed his feet into its lower back while pulling its ears back making it shriek in pain as its body bent to a hundred degree angle from the force of the attack. Something that quickly changed when Naruto let go of its ears and bent back slamming his hands roughly onto the ground with enough force to make it crack. At that moment, he kicked his feet against the rabbits back forcing it off the ground and into the air a couple of feet off the ground.

Muscles screaming at him to stop, even though he was pretty much hyped up on adrenaline, he twisted his waist around to land in a crouch on the balls of his feet before shooting up into the air in a spin. His legs once again slamming right into the rabbits back sending it even higher into the air. And with a single flip, he landed on a crouch and once again launched himself into the air, but twisted his waist around to swerve right around the rabbit's body before snapping out his right leg crashing it into its abdomen halting its course before rotating again to slam it back towards the ground with his left.

With gravity taking its course, the rabbit crashed into the earth below splintering and forming hairline cracks under its back. Just as Naruto was about to let gravity takes its course on him as well, he caught a glimpse of red at the corner of his eye's and turned to see his Aka-hime staring at the sighed along with Ero-Emo and Ero-Inu. This caused him to miss the trickle of embers that puffed out of the rabbit's nose moments after its crash, and when he finally did, a column of flames erupted from its jaw and into the sky. Engulfing Naruto in a brilliant inferno of blazing orange, the surrounding heat from the blast seared away the grass all around with it into ash.

That by it-self seemed to knock the Konoha Shinobi out of their stupor enough for them to realize what had just happened. And Kakashi was grateful and mortified all at the same time. Grateful that Sakura was passed out because the death of a child via scorching flames was not a very good sight to a sheltered girl, and mortified because he had just stood by and watched as his sensei's son and annoying little brother figure had just been killed by an overgrown rat.

Sasuke, he simply had flashbacks of the night his family died where Uchiha's young and old alike were slaughtered one after another. One of which involved kid's dying via the very own flames that his clan specialized in. And Natsumi, she simply stared in minor annoyance at what happened right now. "Naruto…finish this right now or I'll do more than just whoop your ass little brother." She ordered darkly with a sharp edge to her tone.

Her teammates simply looked at her as if she was insane, but instead of replying, jerked her head towards the scene with a scowl. And when they did just that, begrudgingly in Sasuke's case, they watched as the flames seemed to shift and turn. "I AIN'T YOUR LITTLE BROTHER!" Naruto shouted as his form erupted out of the flames, his legs twisting and spinning around in mid-air as the orange flames trailed behind it in a whirlwind of fire. "I'M THE OLDER ONE DATTEBAYO!" And with that statement finished, he slammed his flaming kick right down into the rabbits form with enough force to crater the ground under its back, dust exploding into the air.

A couple coughs and moments later, the dust cloud slowly died down to reveal a panting Naruto drenched to the bone in his own sweat. Dark purple bruises visible around his form here and there with cuts splitting his skin and lips. Dropping down on his behind, his limbs shook in absolute exhaustion at what he just went through. His bones and muscles screaming and protesting the abuse they had just went through in the last half-hour.

So he wasn't all that surprised when his Aka-hime's golden Chakra Chains erupted out of the woods coiling around his body like a snake. Tightening in several small, yet strong layers before jerking him off the rabbits unconscious —oh he hoped—form and dropping unceremoniously on his back with his eyes staring right into his Aka-hime's who stared down at him from above, as if waiting for him to say something. And so he did. "You should have gone with orange Aka-hime, while I personally love red myself, orange panties are so much—"And with a crash, Natsumi slammed her heel into Naruto's face burying him into the ground beneath, cheeks blazing a furious red a similar shade to her hair.

"I'm wearing pants, Baka-Naruto!" She exclaimed.

Instead of replying, Naruto's arm simply shot up and started tickling her sides making her fall back in a sudden fit of giggles. "And that's supposed to matter because?" Naruto retorted dryly with a smirk on his face, the chains that had previously stolen his freedom lying motionlessly by his side. "If you want I could check right now?" He received another kick to the face for his troubles. "You're lucky I'm exhausted right now Aka-hime." Naruto stated wryly, his finger's coiling around his sister's foot before pushing it to the side. "What are you doing here anyway?"

"We're here on a mission Naruto!" Natsumi snapped back, still more than annoyed with the photo. "But that doesn't explain why you're here."

Blinking one, twice, and trice times, Naruto simply hummed in soft bemusement. "Ah~, I'm hurt Aka-hime!" He pouted with a whine at the end. "I came all the way out here because I was worried about you. You disappeared all of a sudden, so I took myself to reliable informants who stated that you were taking a C-Rank mission of all things without telling me too!"

"You're not a Shinobi Naruto. You didn't go to the Academy." Natsumi deadpanned. "So I have no obligation to tell you when and where I'm going.

Getting back to his feet, Naruto leaped back onto the rabbits still form with a grin. "And lookie here." He stated pointing to the rabbit under him. "There was such a dangerous creature lurking around the area. The economy Nami no Kuni looks like it's going to collapse at any second. This village has been overrun by bandits under the control of a corrupt business midget. And said business midget has two A-Rank Shinobi working under his employ as well." Closing his eyes into slits, Naruto simply continued to smile. "This is by far not a C-Rank mission…am I right Ero-Inu." It was more of a statement than a question, but the way Naruto said it and turned the attention towards Kakashi meant he more or less demanded an answer from him.

The Hatake found that adorable. So he simply replied with an eye-smile. "Maa, Maa Naru-chan," He chuckled in a bemused tone, something that no doubt earned a twitch from said boy's brow. "I think there's something wrong with your rabbit." And indeed there was, for when everyone's attention turned back to said…rabbit, they found cracks littering its form like one would see on glass just moments away from shattering.

"Ah…" And with a tilt of his head, the sudden shift in weight within his disposition, no matter how minor, proved to be the rabbit's breaking point as it shattered into hundreds upon thousands of polygon shaped fragments of glass. Naruto's own person dropping to the ground with a rough thud as he landed on his but surprised, and irritated as his defeated opponent that he literally took half an hour pounding into paste—in his mind at least—vanished into thin air. "…Now that's just not fair." He muttered weakly.

"Life ain't fair gaki," Lone eye narrowing discreetly, Kakashi turned to the voice to stare at Kurama who just started to make his presence known in his human form. "You should very well know that."

"And you might be?" The Hatake asked bluntly.

"And more importantly," The fox turned human started slowly, completely disregarding if not outright ignoring the walking scarecrow. "You let my lunch get away!" Yep…this was going to take a good while to get used to.

"OI, who the hell are you!?" His lone competent female student shouted. "What does a suspicious hobo like you know Naruto, dattebane!?"

"WHO THE HELL YOU CALLIN' HOBO YA ROTTEN TOMATO!" Kurama reared around in indignation at Natsumi whose eyes flared a demonic red at the forbidden word.

Hair splitting into nine different tails like sections as they hovered ominously in the air, her eye's nearing the shade of a bloody ruby as her cheeks flushed in absolute rage. "Tomato…times to kiss the ground Porcupine, for you'll be living in it dattebane!" Yep, its times like this he wondered if he should have stayed in ANBU.

(Nami no Kuni—Tazuna's Home)

"…So, you're the mysterious sensei that's been teaching Minato-sensei's wayward son." The Hatake asked, silently ignoring the pointed glare from said teen. He's seen better on Tora. "And your name is…Kurama?" Kakashi asked skeptically.

"Do I need to wave a bone in front of you to get it memorized?" Blinking away the weary tears, he laid down perfectly comfortable on a tall branch meters from the ground with his back against the trunk of the tree. Crimson eyes turning to the silver haired Cyclops, Kurama simply snorted before closing his eyes. "And I ain't teaching no one's son." He clarified gruffly much to their confusion. "I'm teaching Naru-gaki, a pocky obsessed idiot who has way too much time on his hands."

Nodding resolutely at that from his spot on the porch, Naruto turned back to glare at the chicken haired Uchiha glaring at him. "Ero-Sensei's right. My names Uzumaki Naruto, nothing more nothing less…and I can be busy." He muttered that last bit.

"Reading does not count as being busy." Opening one eye, Kurama turned to stare at the Chibi-Habanero who was oh so pitifully glaring at him. He simply snorted when she turned away in favor of staring at her brother. 'If the brat likes reading so much, I wonder if I'll be able to make a killing off of documenting his life.' On that note…maybe he should put some of his own adventures into books as well. It's always good when these lower life forms look at him in awe and worship. After all, they'll know there place…at least until some random idiot decides to be an annoyance at try to usurp him. 'The last time that happened was at that funny place in the ocean. What was it called again…Atlas…Amantis?' Ah…it was Atlantis. The prince was a nice disciple too. Pity his father's advisor decided to be a bitch which then led to him destroying the place with a swing of his might tails.

Snorting inwardly, he closed his eyes and sighed. 'Ah~ memories…'

With Naruto, he simply ignored the pointed stares from Team 7 by swaying back and forth on his bottom like a Daruma. Ugly things, but fun to do it yourself; it's annoying though when one has an audience, "Why aren't you three training?" He asked bluntly turning towards the Hatake. "And why are you reading porn when you should be training them?"

Blinking, Kakashi shrugged. "I'd say that we're all more than a tad curious as to why you're here." He wasn't even going to deny it? "And I'm deciding whether or not I should send a message to Minato-sensei informing him of your whereabouts."

Staring blankly, Naruto turned towards the three Genin with a tilt of his head. Sakura seemed to be taking a mixture of either sending glares at him to eyeing the Uchiha with hearts in her eyes. Aka-hime was obviously admiring him using eyes that practically screamed rage as a cover. And the Uchiha was apparently sizing him up. All in all, "You had them for a couple months and you barely started them on the Tree Walking Exercise?" He asked not taking his eyes off of them.

"What would you know?" Flipping the page of his book, Kakashi giggled as he continued on reading, not all that surprised by Sakura's outburst. She was a prideful little thing…not that she had anything to back it up.

As for Naruto, he simply raised one brow at the talking bubblegum before rolling his arm around to get the crick out of his bones. "It's pronounced the Tree Walking Exercise Bubblegum, what else would it mean?" He asked earning an embarrassed flush from the girl…though she might have just been angry. "And if I recall, I recall a friend of mine stating that it's usually taught around the first month of having a Genin Team." Now instead of him being the center of attention, they're all glaring at the oblivious Ero-Inu pointingly ignoring them…again.

"Maa, Maa," Kakashi chuckled. "There's no use in training them if they're intent on killing each other." He pointed out thoughtfully. "So building up their teamwork is more important at the moment the teaching them powerful Jutsu they could and would use to maim each other with." This is his first team, and he'd rather not have them shoot around elemental dragons at each other just because one stole the other's tomato.

Staring, Naruto simply blinked. "Good point." He admitted with a silent hum before blinking once again as a shadow blocked out his sun. Looking up, he met the glaring eyes of his Aka-hime. "Whatever it was you think I did, I didn't do it!" He exclaimed loudly spooking them for a moment. "It was the Hatake's fault that the Uchiha ended up in the Female Side of the Konohagakure Hot Springs!"

Silence permeated the backyard as they all stared at him in bewilderment, before turning to the lone Uchiha they all know. Only for them to see his face flushed a deep scarlet, whether it was from rage or embarrassment no one would ever know. But they all knew that he was using Uchiha Patented Glare Number Thirty-Seven, with additional piercing effect! And for a moment there, if you had paid close attention, you might have seen a flicker of red in the Uchiha's eyes.

But Kakashi happily ignored all this, and instead asked the awaiting question to the person that they all—except Naruto—are curious to know about. "How'd you meet Naruto Porcupine?" But it seems like someone's beaten him to it. 'And this was a good chance to try and look cool in front of my darling students too.' The Hatake pouted inwardly.

"I'm no spiked rat ya walkin Tomato!" He snapped at the girl irritably before huffing. "And I don't give a damn enough to tell you how I met the gaki to begin with." He stated glaring at her.

Natsumi simply responded by glaring harder. Sasuke simply Hn'd before turning back to glare at the tree, hoping that it'll burst into flames for daring to make a fool out of an Uchiha…and slightly wondering how the Dope did that move with the fire on the ugly rabbit thing. In his mind, the Uchiha who are considered the best when it came to Fire Manipulation in the village should know about something like that! And Sakura was split between curiosity and turning to stare as her 'beloved' Sasuke-kun. Kakashi…he just stopped caring all together and went back to his book.

And Naruto…he simply continued to stare at Natsumi while she continued glaring at his Ero-sensei. He may not look it at the moment, but he was just as pissed as she was if not more so. After all, for good reason to considering that she basically just upped and left without saying goodbye on a potentially deadly mission that actually turned even deadlier. What's more? She actually continued on with it! And what's even more than that was that he found something psychotically dangerous Rabbit Berserker that could put up a good fight against any Jounin level opponent with ease!

Only reason he wasn't slaughtered, handicapped as he was, was due to the fact that there was hardly any space for the overgrown rat pumped up with steroids to move! Especially considering the fact that there were actual runes keeping the thing in that particular clearing! So he was extremely lucky when fighting that thing landscape wise. So safe to say that he was extremely pissed at their current circumstances.

"Dope, fight me." Ah...and he just found a good stress reliever!

A/N: Ah...sorry if the chapter was a bit shorter than the rest. Especially since it's been quite a while since i updated...but I hope you like it none the less. Because thing's will pick up later, and you'll get a full on fight with Naruto that you probably been waiting for...if not...eh. Review your thoughts.