"Normal speech"

'Normal thoughts'

"Demon/Summon speech"

'Demon/Inner Sakura/Summon thoughts'

"Jutsu name"

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flashback/memory

~locations and transitions~

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12Ookami12: glad I wrote it in such a manner as I have read fics where the pacing was either too fast or too long. Glad you think it's the middle ground despite some chapters having problems. To answer your Asa question. I really doubt it as for some reason I like the fact that Anko is raising her on her own. She MIGHT get a father figure but as it is right now she won't be getting one.

Pyrogaming: smelly

Otakumode: glad I brightened your day. It all lead to this. We all knew that she would end up living with him in his compound and now she is.

Absolom Hellgate: it just made sense to have it explained by ino

ZyiareHellsing: at the moment he is just a bit smaller than Shippuden Akamaru. And it essence I believe that is how Bijuu generally gain in size

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Dragon Man 180: nah didn't feel the need to go that way since the episode with the three trying to see what was underneath was good enough. My favorite filler out of all of them

GT Porter: sorry but a second chapter is made more for entertaining rights. There is a sort of explanation in this chapter for the Sarutob clan thing

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Chapter 62: The challenge part 2

~Tuesday, 5:20 AM~

"Asa! Where are you!?" Anko was running around the compound looking for her daughter in a panic. She had just woken up and the first thing she noticed was that Asa was not snuggled into her. Although they have their own beds now, Asa has continued to sleep in the same bed as her, so waking up not feeling the little girl in bed kicked her newly acquired motherly instincts to go haywire. She ran all over the compound looking for her. The playground, the newly made tea room, the kitchen, the bathhouse, the 7 bathrooms, the garden, she even checked the areas Asa was not allowed in such as the sparring field, the underground training area, the many training rooms, the seals room, and the seals testing room. After all that she ran back to the living area and burst through Naruto's bedroom door "NARUTO!"

The shout woke up both Ino and Hinata as the two were still sleeping in Naruto's bed.

Hinata looked at who entered and saw that it was Anko "what's wrong Anko-san?"

Anko, seeing that Naruto wasn't there, decided to ask the two girls instead "Have either of you seen Asa this morning? I can't find her!"

Ino rubbed her eye as she was still trying to wake up "*yawn* I think she is with Naruto. He said he was going to 'steal' her for a few hours."

Anko saw red at those words "HE WHAT?!" she gripped the doorframe so hard that it was starting to moan under the pressure "why didn't he say anything to me!?"

Ino, although the shout caused her to wince, fell back onto the pillows since it was still too early and she was tired from training. "He said that he left you a note saying what he was doing."

Hinata was just as tired as Ino as she had been training with Ino and Naruto and it was exhausting. She laid down as well and closed her eyes as she said "he told us that he left the note on your door so you could see it."

In a split second, Anko bolted back to her room and looked to find the note taped to the inside of the door. She pulled it off and read it

"Stole Asa this morning. Taking her to see the 'flute lady' in the park. Be back in a few hours."

Anko crumpled the paper before she began to take deep calming breaths. "She is ok. She is ok. She is ok. She's with Naruto and he won't let anything bad happen to her. He would protect her from anyone. She is safe." taking one last deep breath to calm down "it's just a playdate with her woofy." she finally calmed down and went into the kitchen to get some breakfast. "I'm going to kill him when he gets back."


~afternoon, Hiruzen~

Hiruzen was sitting on his couch as he grumpily stared at the wall ahead of him. He chewed on the pipe he had in his mouth as he grumbled to himself.

This was how Asuma saw his father when he arrived to speak to the older Sarutobi. After thinking about what could be wrong with his father, he figured that Naruto had taken something from the old man. 'Kid has some good stealth skills if he could get one over dad.' walking closer to Hiruzen he spoke "I'm guessing that the kid had taken something from you."

Hiruzen grunted before he answered "I'm retired. I should be allowed to enjoy some o my vices now. But even after I took off the hat and do not see the boy as often, he still won't let me enjoy a smoke."

Asuma looked at Hiruzen quizzically as he eyed the pipe that Hiruzen was chewing on "uh, dad. I know you are coming on into your age but I didn't think you would go senile just yet."

Hiruzen grumbled a bit more as he grabbed the end of his pipe with one hand to hold it in place. Suddenly bubbles came out and began to fill the room.

Asuma could not help but laugh, now knowing that Naruto had stolen the old man's favorite pipe and replaced it with a toy that looks just like it. As he was laughing, a bubble landed in his mouth and he paused as he gained a confused look. He decided to check it out as he poked one bubble and then tasted the liquid on his finger. "Cotton candy?" after realizing this he laughed again.

Hiurzen grumbled again as he crossed his arms. 'Why can't he let this old man enjoy his free time.'


~Yugao~

Anbu Neko was doing her patrols throughout the village as it was her turn making sure that everything was in order and if there was anything that needed to be reported to the Hokage. However, she was on full alert as she knew that she was being followed by, who she assumed to be, Naruto. She may be grateful to the boy, it was thanks to the information he passed on that saved her boyfriend's life but she would not make this challenge easy for him. At the moment she was in one of the forests in the village and her eyes kept darting around as she witnessed random pieces of objects moved.

A leaf

A pebble

A bush

Twigs

'He is extremely proficient in stealth. If I had not known it was him, I would have assumed that one of our Anbu infiltrators was after me. And at his age….commendable.' she moved her hand to the hilt of the sword on her back as both to keep it with her and to be ready to strike at a moment's notice.

The sword was a gift from Hayate and was what she valued the most, at least in material possessions.

She paused her walking as she felt that she was surrounded. 'Must be using shadow clones to surround me.' she was proven right when a group of clones charged at her. She did not hesitate to begin striking them down and causing them all to poof away. This continued or ten constant minutes and she was impressed at the speed and attempts the boy had been using to grab hold of the sword. Once she finished the last clone, she spread out her sense to sense that only one was left but it was odd. If her senses were right, it should be right on top of her. She may not be a sensor but she has trained it to the point, she can at least sense chakra about two dozen feet away. She turned around to see if she could catch sight of the last clone. It wasn't until the smoke cleared that she noticed that she was alone and based on what she knew, the boy did not know any earth jutsu. She stood there or several minutes and her sense had told her that the boy had not moved either. She moved, slowly in one direction but it wasn't until she made a few more steps that she noticed that he had moved at the same pace. It wasn't until she looked at her katana that she came to a sudden realization. She swung the sword, hitting the side against a tree only to see that it too poofed away. "When did he …?" she could only shake her head in amusement that she was bested by a boy. "I hope he returns that sword to me when this is done. Though I doubt he would really keep all of these items once this is all over." she continued her patrol, wondering how the other Anbu would handle the boy.


~Shinobi Academy~

"SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP" was Iruka's first act as a teacher for the day and it made him smile to see that the students listened to him. "Ok class, today we will be going over the basics of the chakra network, starting with the tenketsu points. He couldn't help but smile as he heard the groans of his students. Contrary to what many believe, Iruka knows that his lessons are boring, but it is the way the lesson is and he isn't going to change it. He turned around and grabbed a piece of chalk before he began to draw a generic image of the human body and pot dots on the forehead, heart, and hands. Once that was done he turned back to the class and continued "ok, I will be calling you one by one and you are to put two tenketsu points on this image. They can be side by side points or they can be individual points on random points." before he could call someone he threw his arm to the side

"Argh!" *poof*

The students were confused about what happened, with Konohamaru raising his hand and asking "what was that Iruka-sensei?"

Iruka smiled as he answered "just an unexpected visitor." he then grabbed a pencil eraser and threw it upwards.

"Ow!" *poof*

Before anyone else could say anything, Iruka grabbed his hitai-ate and tossed it to his right….hard.

The hitai-ate hit the plant that decorated the corner and both went up in smoke. Falling from the smoke that was the plant, his hitai-ate fell to the ground.

Iruka went over and picked it up before tying it back on his forehead. "This is going to be a long day."

And so it was. Throughout the rest of the day, Iruka had to continuously stop his lesson to dispel a clone that hid somewhere nearby.

This went on for days but Iruka had yet to have something stolen from him.

As far as he knew


~Wednesday, T&I department~

Ibiki was sitting in his office going over some confessions from some shinobi that were captured during a few recent missions. He had been sitting here for a while and was just finishing the last report. He scratched his head as he finished up before he leaned back in his chair and began untying his Hitai-ate/bandana. Once it was off he looked it over. Once he was finished examining it, he placed it on his desk and crossed his arms "did you really have to steal it?"

His hitai-ate went up in smoke before revealing Naruto sitting crossed legged on top of his desk. He had his arms behind his head as he had a cheeky grin on his face "yep. You don't really have anything in value so I figured that I would take something that you almost always have with you."

Ibiki figured that overall the boy did steal something from him and that in itself was praiseworthy. "How long have you been henged?"

Naruto crossed his arms as he looked up in thought "what time is it?"

Ibiki looked to his left at the clock on the wall "6:45."

"Four hours and twenty-two minutes."

Ibiki gave a whistle, "impressive to maintain a henge for that long."

Naruto smiled cheekily "I practiced that jutsu a LOT."

"I bet you have." Ibiki then opened up a draw in his desk and pulled a regular bandana before tying it around his head. "I expect it returned when this is all over."

Naruto laughed as he got up "well duh. What am I gonna do with all that stuff even if I keep it. Besides, a lot of people read Ero-sennin's books that I had to start writing down who I took them from." and with his piece said he poofed away, leaving an amused Ibiki

"Kid has a lot of potential."


~Ebisu~

The civilians were all looking at Ebisu in a bit of confusion and apprehension as the man was stumbling around.

"Where are you, you brat!? How dare you do this to an elite shinobi such as me!" he was interrupted when he bumped into the wall. "Oh I'm terribly sorry." he moved to keep walking but he bumped into a pole "forgive me." he continued to bump into things until he tripped over a garbage can.

The reason he continued to do this was because he was covering his eyes with one of his hands while using the other one to feel out in front of him.

Getting back to his feet he shouted out in the air "you shall return my glasses immediately! I will not tolerate this humiliation!" he continued to feel out in front of him as he did not want to bump into something again. This continued on until his hand ran into something. He was unfamiliar with what it was as he had never felt this before.

Unbeknownst to him, his hand had actually landed on a woman's breast with said woman blushing heavily as she stood there in shock

*squish squish*

He gave it a few examining squeezes to see if he could figure out what it was "hmm soft."

The woman then screamed "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ECHI!"

*SLAP*


~Friday 7 PM~

Tsunade was looking out of the window onto the village with the biggest smile on her face.

Shizune looked at her sensei with a bit of curiosity as she held Tonton in her arms "Lady Tsunade? Why are you in such a good mood? Isn't the challenge ending in a few hours?"

Tsunade's smile grew cocky as she looked at Shizune "exactly Shizune. And from the reports that I got, he has not succeeded. Iruka had been able to keep his possession from Naruto's hands throughout the entire week. In a few hours, Naruto will have no choice but to admit defeat and I win the bet."

Iruka had turned out to be the only one that was able to foil Naruto's attempts. Not even the Anbu were able to stop him as most of them had their masks stolen as it was sometimes a symbol of pride for them at making it to the Anbu ranks. Oddly enough Naruto had placed paper bags in their place with badly drawn animal faces. The Anbu were so embarrassed that they had not shown themselves since they could not remove the bags as the boy had placed a seal on them so they would not come off.

Tenzo had never felt so mortified in his life to be humiliated as an Anbu

Shizune sweatdropped as she could see the money signs that took her eyes. Granted that she was thankful that Naruto was soon to fail the challenge so he could remain in the village in relative safety.

"Not only did he fail to steal Iruka's possession, he had not stolen anything from us, and based on the terms, he failed."

"Was that your loophole? That even if he stole something from the rest of the shinobi forces, he would still fail because he had not taken anything from us?" seeing Tsunade nod she could only shake her head in disapproval. "He wouldn't have needed to steal something from you as you are part of a clan Lady Tsunade."

Tsunade turned her chair to face Shizune "one person does not make a clan Shizune. One person just holds the name of a clan that could be brought but, much like the Uzumaki clan…." 'and the Uchiha clan, if those two ever come back and find someone to be with. ' Tsunade sighed as she continued "... as much as it pains me to say it but the Senju clan will die with me as I am far past the age of conceiving a child and even if I could, I have no intention of finding anyone to be with. The time we live in is too dangerous for me to ever want to bring life into the world."

Shizune felt sad for her sensei at this as she could not refute what she had said about the death of her clan. Before she could say anything there was a knock at the door. Pushing the conversation for later she looked to the door "come in."

The door opened to reveal Iruka with a confused look on his face "you asked to see me Lady Hokage?"

Tsunade nodded "yes I called you here to make sure that you are kept in sight so that Naruto would to have any more chances to steal your most valuable possession." she then gained an idea as she felt the need to celebrate. "In fact, since you're here, we should celebrate his loss now."

Iruka sweatdropped at this "uh Lady Hokage, shouldn't you hold off until the actual challenge had ended?"

Tsunade acted as if she didn't hear the question as she moved to a wall and removed a picture to show a safe in the wall. "I've been saving this for such a time and now I have the chance to drink it." she put in the combination, excited to drink the rare sake that was imported from Taki. she opened up the safe and her smile had dropped as she screamed in outrage.

Shizune ran up to Tsunade as she grew worried "Lady Tsunade what is it?"

"He dares steal from me!?"

The sake bottle she had in the safe was gone and to add insult to injury all that was in the safe was a note that said

"I O U" with a little chibi naruto giving a peace sign

Shizune sighed at this as she watched Tsuande fume and rip the note to shreds. She didn't get a chance to say anything as she heard Tonton oinking out laughs "Tonton?"

"Oink, Oink, Oink, Oink, Oink, woof, woof, meow, meow, chirp, chirp!"

Shizune dropped Tonton in shock as the little piglet began making different animal noises.

Everyone watch Tonton continue to make different animal noises until

*Poof* "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Tonton turned out to be Naruto henged into her. He was right now rolling on the ground as it was starting to hurt his sides

Unfortunately for him, Tsunade was not amused. She grabbed the back of his jacket and brought him up to her eye level "where is my Sake?!"

Naruto shrugged as his smile did not drop "who knows. But when I win, I might give it back to you."

Shizune though was more concerned with where Tonton was "Naruto, where is Tonton?"

Naruto looked at her as he continued to dangle in Tsunade's grasp "she is at my compound. She's been there since Tuesday."

Both Tsunade and Shizune looked at him in shock as Tsunade spoke up "are you telling me that you were hiding Tonton for most of the week?"

"Yep." he gave his foxy smile as he looked at Iruka "and just to let you guys know. I already stole Iruka's possession."

"WHAT?!"

Naruto winced as the three shouted right next to his ear. Rubbing them to ease the pain he answered "yep I stole it from right under his nose and no one even realized it."

Iruka tilted his head as he asked "what did you steal from me?"

"Your time in the classroom."

"...huh?"

"Think about it Iruka-sensei. When was the last time you gave a full lecture and not trying to stop me throughout the day."

Iruka thought about the question and came to a realization. Naruto had kept his attention the entire day throughout the week as he kept disrupting the class with random pop-ups and him stopping the boy many times throughout the week. In fact the entire week, he had not given an actual lecture. He had barely even said a paragraph of the lesson before he had to deal with Naruto. He was played and didn't even know it. He chuckled as he had finally lost one with his former student. "Nicely done Naruto but next time please let me go about my lessons."

Naruto gave another foxy grin "no promises." he was then brought back up to stare into the angry eyes of Tsunade

"Tell me. Where. IS. MY. SAKE!"

Naruto did not drop his smile "that would be telling and from what I can tell…..I won the bet with a few hours to spare…...I'll let boss know you announced him the winner."

*poof*

Tsunade gaped at the smoke that was once a Shadow clone. She felt her blood boil as she realized that she had not only lost but she had been played

"NNNNAAAARRRRUUUUUTTTTTOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"


Naruto looked behind him as he heard the scream "looks like I win Baa-chan." he smiled before looking back at what was in front if him "now I have to find a way to give all this stuff back

A large pile of random things were sitting there with several storage scrolls that held larger or multiple Icha Icha books

"I better start getting ready."


End of chapter

Well there it is the end of the challenge. Not much to say about this so hope you enjoyed it

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