Having spent the biggest part of the day with the girls and watching as clone after clone ran out of chakra and vanished, Juuri could see the effect that it was having on the real Naruto. He looked nearly ready to pass out. Turning to Sakura she gave her a slightly worried look. "Sakura do you really think that he is going to be okay?"
Nodding as she looked up as a few more clones had it and were gone, Sakura smiled. "He will be just fine. If anyone in this village can handle this sort of training it is Naruto. Don't worry."
"I can't help it though." Looking down as her eyes half closed, Juuri kept a soft smile. "For as long as I can remember, Naruto and Papa are the only ones who have ever shown me any kindness, knowing everything about me. I don't think I will ever be able to not worry about either of them."
Giving her a wink, Tenten laughed. "Yeah but when it comes to training, I don't know if you saw it traveling with him, Naruto tends to get a one track mind."
But before anyone could say anything else, they all looked up with blinking eyes as all the clones were just gone and Naruto stood before Asuma with an odd look. Letting her head fall to the side, Sakura gave him a strange look. "I don't think I have ever seen Naruto with that look before."
With a smile, Juuri nodded. "I have. He got that way at one point while we were traveling when he had a question for Papa about something they were training about. He probably has something that he thought of that could help."
X
His eyes fixed on Asuma, Naruto just looked at him with an odd look. "Hey can I ask you something."
Odd that he was looking at him so odd, and talking so low, Asuma nodded. "Sure what is it?"
Taking a deep breath as he looked at his hand, his eyes half closed. The fatigue of the clones starting to weigh on him now. "You said doing this is the same thing as doing my chakra chains. I just have to picture it. So it is just like using my chakra chains, but forming them with the wind around my chakra and not my chakra?"
Thinking for a moment, remembering the few times that he saw Kushina use them, Asuma crossed his arms. "I never thought of it like that. But yes I think that would work. But you are the only one who can help yourself implement that one Naruto. No one else can tell you how to do that. Seeing as you are the only one alive that we know of that can use them."
Nodding, Naruto felt his eyes start to flutter. "Alright then tomorrow…" Then he just fell forward as Asuma caught him.
With a smile, Kakashi watched as Juuri rushed over to him. "He is fine. Each clone wore themselves out and he is getting that full effect. He will sleep until tomorrow morning and then will be right back at it again I am sure."
Looking up at Kakashi as he sighed, Shikamaru only closed his eyes and put his hands in his pocket. "But with everything else we know going on. I don't think it wise to leave just him and her alone in his place. It would actually make more sense for Tenten to use her scroll of houses and keep everyone here. With me and Sakura sharing the house with him and Juuri."
Nodding, Kakashi turned to go and tell Tenten what they were going to be doing. "That would be a good idea."
Looking up as the one guy laid Naruto down, Juuri knelt next to him as she blinked. "You mean we are not going back to Papa's apartment tonight?"
"No. I think that while he is training, since he is going to be wearing himself out like this, it would be best if everyone stayed together." Shikamaru was glad when she only nodded and then turned worried eyes back down to Naruto. "He will be just as good as new tomorrow morning. Eventually he will build up a stamina to it and everything will be fine."
"Okay." All Juuri was worried about right now was Naruto pushing himself too far. She couldn't loose him. She had to do all she had to do to keep him and her father in her life for as long as she could. She didn't know what she would do if she ever lost them for any reason.
X
Blinking as he watched as they all set up a camp, Sai stood and stuffed his book in his bag as he moved toward them. Looking at Sakura as he went to her, he gave her a strange look. "Is it common for you to stay in the training field like this when training one person?"
"It is for Naruto." Sakura then pointed to the small single home that was on the end of a row. "That one is yours."
Nodding, Sai then noticed that she was headed for the small home that Naruto and the girl were put in. Reaching out to stop her, he gave her a confused look. "If we are all on the same team then shouldn't we all stay in the same place?"
Turning a glare on him, Sakura sighed. "No. Shikamaru is going in there with me to stay with Naruto and Juuri. Ino and Tenten are going to share, Choji gets his own and a few others. You get your own. We only have to stay all in the same place when out on missions."
Seeing and hearing what was said, Shikamaru wasn't going to pull any punches when it came to this guy. He already knew what he was going to have to do as time went on and had how to do it. Walking up to him, he put his hands in his pockets as he sighed. "Sai." When he had his eyes on his, he closed them. "I will be a little more direct than Sakura. Those that prefer to be alone in houses when not on a mission, get their own. Other than that the ones that are put together get along. Yours is, well you get your own because frankly none of us know a thing about you and because of that we don't trust you. When you got here, instead of mingling with everyone but Naruto and getting to know us, you chose to sit far off and draw. That doesn't exactly scream that we can trust you or that you are even making an attempt to be social now does it?"
"I see." When he turned away from him, Sai went into the small home that was going to be his and sighed as he sat down and cracked the door to see everyone sitting around a fire in the middle of it, and the door to where Naruto was wide open. 'This is going to make things really hard for me. I think they all know that I am not here simply to fill in for Sasuke. But how much do they know of what? So long as they keep me at arms length, I am not sure what I can do about the scrolls that they want.'
X
After everyone ate, and then went on to the homes that they were going to stay in, Yamato found himself sitting on the roof of the home where Naruto and Juuri were at. Looking up at the moon he sighed. He could tell by the way the expression on his face changed ever so slightly that Sai was up to something. But he couldn't pinpoint what it was.
Sensing movement he looked down to see Sai walking back toward the woods. His eyes glaring as he moved, Yamato was suddenly there standing before him with crossed arms. "You say you want to work well with Naruto and Sakura as their third team member. Yet you have not done one thing that screams trust. Leaving in the middle of the night like this isn't going to do that either."
Looking up at him, Sai took a deep breath as he closed his eyes. "I am simply going for a walk. I have spent most of my life underground. I just thought I would take the chance while I had it and take a walk under the moonlight."
"You aren't fooling me Sai." When his black eyes opened up to him, Yamato kept his arms crossed as he took his own deep breath and narrowed his own black eyes. "You forget one thing. Kakashi and myself are anbu. But I spent time in the Root as well. I know what you went through and why. I know you were taught to read those that suppressed their emotions. So was I. I can't tell you details, but I know that you have something else going on. Remember that." Then without a word he walked on back toward the homes that were set out.
Turning to look at him for a moment where he sat on Naruto's house, Sai just stood there for a moment. He didn't know what to think about him, or what he said. He had heard that someone was able to be pulled from the Root before training was fully complete and the mark put on them. However, he had heard that his name was Tenzo and not Yamato. Either way this one, the look in his eyes was clear. He wasn't going to make anything easy on him that was for sure.
Turning he did start to just walk around. 'I cannot go and meet with Lord Danzo tonight like I had planned after all. I did not think that someone would have caught on to me so fast.'
x
Watching him, as he stayed in the tree line and just took ten minutes to walk around the tree line, Yamato sighed to see him going back toward the home that was his. 'I just hope that you understand Sai that no one here is going to just trust you and let you know everything that they know. You are going to have to learn how to deal with them. And it is either going to piss Danzo off, or you are going to get pulled off of this mission you are on if you can't.'
Looking at the other homes he sighed as he closed his eyes. 'For your sake Sai, I hope you let them in and see that having emotions is not a bad thing. That the way you were taught by Danzo is wrong and you need to let it go so that you can have an actual life. Especially since Lady Tsunade I am sure could take the mark off of your tongue.'
