This story is connected to my other story "Sarutobi and Uzumaki" as it's part of the same world and same timeline. Both stories are based on another story I wrote "A Different Take on Naruto", that story has all kinds of crack pairings as the main characters. I decided to split up the story into several ones, with the focus being on just one pairing in each story, even though all stories are part of the same fictional world. A few scenes of that story will be the same as in this one. The main difference is that Uzumaki Naruto and Kurenai Yühi are the main characters this time, with Mitarashi Anko being the most important side character. Anko will have a big role in this story. A fair warning to any Kurenai x Asuma fans or just Asuma fans in general, this story is not for you. Although I plan to give him some redemption in the end as he will have a happy ending.

I won't mention the age of any anyone in the story as I prefer to have my readers use their imagination and decide on that themselves. They can be the same age as they would in the manga at the same timeline or the academy age is raised to 18+ . But for safety, everyone in this story, unless their age is specified to be something else, is 18 or older.

Next I'm going to describe the outfits of the characters that will a big part in this story. As well as introduce a few original characters that may have a part in the story.

Naruto dresses very casually, he is often seen wearing a pair of blue pants and a white t-shirt with the Uzumaki swirl on it. When he eventually graduates he will wear an outfit similar to Minato's, without the jounin jacket and hokage jacket. His clothes is a darker blue than Minato's.

Kurenai wears a few different outfits, sometimes she wears red pants and a red shirt under a green jounin vest but most of the time she wears her standard white and red outfit with a black pattern on the white dress. Both outfits can be seen in this picture: images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2 dot wixmp dot com /i/a969e494-a6a9-4e2e-b7b4-81479c752316/dddp5px-de81a955-8f17-42de-b7d7-4d5802698de9 dot png

Anko pretty much always wears her most common outfit as well, a tan trench coat, orange miniskirt and a transparent body armor that doesn't leave much to the imagination.

Konohamaru wears his part one outfit. A gray hat, blue scarf, yellow t-shirt and gray shorts.

Kushina always wears her green dress and white blouse unless specified otherwise. Other normal outfits for her would be an orange t-shirt, blue pants and a gray apron and lastly a tan dress and a light blue blouse similar to her first outfit.

Sakura dresses up the same was she does in part one of Naruto as well, a red dress and dark green, skin tight, biker shorts.

Hanabi wears and looks the same she does in the movie "Road to Ninja". She is also older than in the manga. She is just one year younger than Hinata in this story. i dot pinimg dot com /originals/08/fa/de/08fade96c118212cd3119907dba8ef31 dot png

Hinata dresses the same way as part one of Naruto but has the same hairstyle as she would later on in Shippuuden. A hime hair cut but much longer hair.

Uchiha Satsuki is an original character. A one year younger sister to Sasuke. She dresses in dark Uchiha styled clothing and she looks like a younger version of her mother, Uchiha Mikoto.

Uchiha Sara is also an original character and an elder sister to Sasuke, one year older. She also dresses in dark Uchiha styled clothing, although slightly more revealing clothing than her younger sister. She is very popular and good looking with a body frame that most women dream of. She also looks like a younger version of Mikoto.

Yamanaka Butao is Ino's mom. In the anime she is only shown in filler episodes and isn't given a name. In the anime she is shown as an old looking gray haired woman: vignette dot wikia dot nocookie dot net /naruto/images/f/f2/Inos_mother dot png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/300?cb=20120927231337

I also decided to change her appearance completely, basically making her an original character. This is how she looks in this story instead: cdn-eu dot anidb dot net/images/main/207698 dot jpg

Yui is the name I have given Moegi's mom, another original character. She has orange hair just like her daughter, although she has much longer her hair than her and a different hairstyle. She is a widow after her husband and Moegi's father passed away on a mission six years ago. She is currently single but is a very attractive and sought after MILF. She looks very similar to Inoue Orihime in Bleach: anime-planet dot com /images/characters/orihime-inoue-101 dot jpg _space_ ?t=1606368783

Akane and Maho are two more original characters, they are Udon's older sisters. Akane is the oldest of the two. Both have long brown hair, the same brown as Udon. They are known for being very slutty.

Everyone else wears their standard outfits during part one of the Naruto anime or whenever they were introduced in the manga, unless otherwise specified.

For my other story, A Different Take on Naruto (on adult fanfiction), which is basically this story but with more main characters, I made a map to give you guys an idea of where things are located in this version of Konoha. imgur dot com /trI5Qfu

Sometimes I may post a link to an image of an outfit that a character is wearing. This is due to me being horrible at describing clothing and female clothing in particular. Lastly, this is fiction and should not be treated as, or confused with reality.


Chapter 1

In this story both of Naruto's parents are alive as they survived the nine tailed fox's attack, the day of his birth. That was mainly due to the fact that both Jiraiya and Tsunade were in the village at the time. With the two sannins presence, they along with other powerful ninja of Konoha were able to fight off the masked ninja until he escaped, without too many causalities. Minato and Kushina survived thanks to those two being in the village. With both of his parents raising and training him, Naruto's childhood is much happier than in canon and he gets a head start in his ninja career.

He is far above his peers in strength, as he could've probably given chuunins a pretty good fight before he even started the academy. His skills, lineage and his looks have also made him very popular with the ladies in the village. Very popular is a bit of an understatement as you would sooner find talking trees in the village before you could find a girl or woman who doesn't find him attractive. Even his friends mothers, the girls in the classes above his, strong jounin and chuunin are into him. Naruto himself is completely oblivious to that fact.

The story begins the summer before Naruto starts his third year of the ninja academy. He still has to spend three more years in the academy before he can graduate. Due to being trained by his father, the hokage Namikaze Minato, before even starting the academy, Naruto was strong enough to graduate before he even started his first year of school. At first that is what he wanted to do, but his parents convinced him not to as they wanted him to go to school like a regular ninja, and hopefully make a few good friends while doing so. That proved to be a good decision which Naruto did not regret, as he became very good friends with some of his classmates. Shikamaru, Choji and Kiba are the guys from his class that he gets along the best with.

Naruto has been friends with Ino long before he even started the academy, as their families often got together for various occasions. Sakura and Hinata are two other girls in his class that he has gotten to know pretty well, mainly through knowing Ino. All three of them has a crush on Naruto, a fact that Naruto is completely oblivious to. In Ino's case, it's pretty well known by everyone who knows them that she is in love with Naruto.

Outside of school he has another female friend, an older one who he has known his whole life, since she is a very good family friend. Her name is Mitarashi Anko. Anko is something of a big sister figure to Naruto, at least that's what his parents and their friends sees their relationship as. That's not exactly how Naruto sees it as Anko is someone who Naruto is very attracted to, unlike the girls his own age who he finds to be lacking compared to women like Anko, Kurenai or even his mom. Unknowingly to Naruto, Anko just like the rest of the girls in the village, is attracted to him as well. She even shows that constantly by throwing herself at him and teasing him in a very suggestive manner every chance she gets. All of Anko's friends knows that Anko has a thing for Naruto, just like Ino. As already mentioned, Naruto is completely oblivious to that fact, he is of the opinion that he has no chance with Anko.

Even though Naruto is very oblivious when it comes to girls and their attraction to him, he is oozing self confidence and isn't shy at all around girls. The only exceptions would be Anko and Kushina who has made him blush with their teasing and closeness. In Anko's case it's the constant teasing which has already been mentioned. In his mothers case it's similar, except she isn't teasing, she is just very touchy and cuddly with him. She sometimes even sits in his lap and hugs in front of their friends and family. She is also extremely protective of him, especially when other women tries anything with him, which they do often, to be fair.

Naruto doesn't mind Kushina's behavior, even though she is his mom, because quite frankly she is one of the hottest women around in his opinion. Although he is wondering sometimes if what she is doing is normal, if his friends mothers do that to them as well. Considering what his friends mom's sometimes try do with him, he has no reason to believe that it is not normal. The other girls and women who see it don't like it one bit. They think Kushina is just doing it to "mark her territory" or to get them jealous.

While Naruto has many other female friends, those mentioned are the ones he knows the best. Outside of school he mostly hangs out with either Konohamaru or "Ero-sennin", also known as Jiraiya. That is whenever he is not training alone at the edge of his parents huge backyard, which is something he does most of the time. Before that, he had trained with his father for a few years. When Minato thought he had taught Naruto what he needed to know, which included his signature techniques "Rasengan" and the "Flying Thunder God Technique", Naruto started training with his mom.

Kushina started training Naruto around the same time that Naruto started his first year in the academy. She finished her training with him earlier this summer, meaning at the end of his second year in the academy. Kushina had thought that she would need to train him for all the five years that he would attend the ninja academy, to be able to teach him everything she wanted. She was very wrong about that as Naruto mastered everything she taught him about half a year ago. The months after that, their training has basically only been sparring since Kushina used that as a way to prolong her training with him, since she didn't really want to stop training him. Last month she finally let him go as Jiraiya offered to train Naruto whenever he had free time.

Naruto then started training with Jiraiya at least one day per week, usually that was on Sundays. After Naruto started training with Jiraiya, or by himself which he does most often, Kushina found herself to be bored out of her mind. Kushina who is mischievous by nature and a notorious prankster, just like Naruto, started pranking Naruto, Jiraiya and sometimes even Naruto's friends, mostly Konohamaru, to cure her boredom. Naruto didn't take that without retaliating and neither did Konohamaru, as the two of them would often team up to get her back. Jiraiya on the other hand always got the worst pranks aimed at him and he didn't have any interest in retaliating, unless giving Kushina inappropriate compliments counted as that. But he did that to any good looking woman anyway.


Today Naruto was out training at his usual training spot, at the edge of his parents backyard. He was shirtless as he did push ups on the grassy ground, while thinking on how he could get his mom back for yesterdays prank. She had gone too far yesterday with her prank. Kushina had brought Ramen from Ichiraku's for her and Naruto to eat for lunch. The problem was that Naruto's ramen had no ramen noodles in it, instead it was only rice in his soup.

"It's the Ichiraku's new bestseller, I thought you wanted to try it!" Kushina had said while laughing as Naruto stared in horror at his ramen bowl.

"Nobody messes with my ramen!" Naruto thought in anger as he glared at Kushina, vowing to get her back. This was even worse than the time that Kushina woke him up by throwing garden snakes into his bed, saying "Here I thought you would like this since you like having snakes in your bed so much ttebane!".

That was Kushina referring to Naruto having Anko over a lot, watching movies or playing games in his room. This prank wasn't that bad though, as Kushina had bought him 9 more regular bowls of ramen as well, but that did not save her. She had already committed the crime and now she needed to pay for it. That was what on Naruto's mind as he did his push-ups, when he sensed someone coming towards him. He was expecting Konohamaru since he had asked him to come meet him here in the morning. He stood up then turned around and said "Took your time, you little shit". "Little shit" was something of a pet name Naruto had for Konohamaru.

"Ara ara?" Kurenai Yühi said as she appeared from behind a tree "That's the first time I have ever been called that"

Naruto's eyes widened in shock. He had just insulted the woman he considers to be the best looking in the whole village, even hotter than the likes of Tsunade, Butao, Mikoto and the Uchiha sisters.

"Sorry, I thought it was my friend" Naruto said scratching the back of his head while laughing nervously.

Kurenai smiled at him "Don't worry Naruto-kun, I figured as much" she then walked up to a large stone and sat on it, cross legged. She then grabbed a book from her pocket and started reading it, without saying another word. Naruto took his opportunity to check her out a bit. The way she sat, he got a good view of her fantastic legs.

"Now that's a real woman" Naruto thought with a perverted smile, a smile that Kurenai didn't notice, luckily for him. A few seconds later, Konohamaru came running up to Naruto while waving at him "Good morning boss! Sorry for being late kore!" he yelled excitedly.

"Ah, there you are you little shit!" Naruto said walking up to Konohamaru as Kurenai chuckled at their interaction. Naruto and Konohamaru then walked away, leaving Kurenai alone at the spot where Naruto usually trains. That meant that Kurenai would be leaving as well since the only reason she headed out here was to watch Naruto train, and maybe talk to him a bit. This was something Kurenai had been wanting to do for months. The reason for that being, she is in love with Naruto just like the rest of pretty much the whole female population of Konoha. The difference being, Kurenai is not going to lose Naruto to any of them under any circumstances and she has even been scheming up an evil plan to get her way.

Kurenai has never had any attraction towards any human being, until a few years ago when she visited the Uzumaki/Namikaze home with Anko and saw Naruto spar against his father, Minato. While the spar had been impressive for someone that hadn't even started the academy yet, it was his handsome smile that made her heart pound faster. She has been in love with him ever since then and would have already made an effort to maker him hers if it weren't for all the obstacles in her way. The first obstacle is that, well she is a skilled chuunin who is about to make jounin and Naruto is about to start his third year at the academy. Another obstacle is Kushina, Naruto's overly protective mom, who is probably the biggest obstacle.

Anko and Ino are also obstacles in her way. Anko has even told Kurenai that she is in love with Naruto, something that everyone already knew, but Anko made a big deal out of it as if she had just told her some very important secret. Anko is Kurenai's best friend who she has known since the academy days. If she found out that Kurenai was gunning for Naruto as well, she feared that it could destroy her friendship with Anko, since Naruto is so important to Anko. Ino is someone Kurenai wouldn't mind walking over to get Naruto though. She is a problem because of some rumors, and how people see her and Naruto. Most people seem to think that Naruto and Ino are already a couple. A rumor that Ino certainly doesn't mind and it also shows just how close friends those two are. Naruto on the other hand does not like those rumors and would outright deny them if anyone asked him. While he thinks Ino is the cutest of the girls in his class, he has no interest to be anything other than friends with her. We have already went through the type of women he is into, and none of those are members of his class.

After thinking over her dilemma, mostly the part about her and Anko liking the same guy, she came to the conclusion that she can live the fact that Anko, or anyone else for that matter, will hate her, as long as she gets Naruto in the end. She also has something else that annoys her very much that she is going to take care of with this evil plan that she has cooked up. All her friends, Anko included, always tells her that she should start dating, suggesting guys left and right to her. As already mentioned, Kurenai has no interest in any guys that isn't Naruto, so she finds that very annoying. Not to mention all the guys that are constantly asking her out or trying to get inside her pants whenever she heads into the village for a walk or a drink.

Luckily she always have Asuma following her around, something he has done like a love struck school girl, for over a decade. Asuma is someone that used to be one of Kurenai and Anko's classmates in the academy. He is the one that her friends usually tells Kurenai to go out with. The problem is that Kurenai doesn't even consider Asuma a friend, the only reason she lets him follow her around sometimes is because she can use him to get rid of the Casanovas that are trying to ask her out. She will either just point towards Asuma or she will order Asuma to just chase the guy away. Asuma does it without questioning it, since he would do pretty much anything for her. That's the only reason Kurenai allows Asuma to follow her around sometimes, like some kind of guard dog. She has no interest in him at all, in fact she kinda dislikes him.

The mere thought of being together with him disgusts her. The way he blushes and gets all fidgety just by Kurenai staring at him or talking to him, annoys her more than anything. Unfortunately for Asuma, Kurenai's evil plan involves her using him even more and humiliating him even. She is going to ask him to be his boyfriend, knowing full well that he is going to say yes. She has no intentions of letting him have any benefits that a boyfriend usually would though. She would merely just bring him to dinners with family and friends, parties and maybe walk with him hand in hand in public on occasions. All just to sell the picture of the two of them being together. Holding hands is the only thing Kurenai is going to allow, even the thought of that makers her shiver in disgust. She will only allow it in public as well, since there is no point to if no one else can see them.

Kurenai knows that Asuma is not going to complain, nor will he try to take it any further, since he simply doesn't have the balls for it. And even if he does try anything, Kurenai will play her part as the shy little princess who isn't ready for such things. If everything goes according to Kurenai's plan, she can use this fake relationship to get closer to her true interest, Naruto. She figures that no one will suspect her of going after Naruto after just getting into a relationship with Asuma. At least she hopes so, knowing that even married women has flirted with Naruto after a glass of wine or two, having a partner didn't really put you out of suspicion completely. Especially with all the adultery that is going in this village, according to the village gossiper, Ayame, and her rumors anyway.

She does not plan on breaking up with Asuma if she were to get together with Naruto. Anything they will do behind Asuma's back will just be a fun bonus for Kurenai. It will be payback for all the hand holding she will have to withstand, and the embarrassment of living with the fact hat people thinks that she is dating him. That pretty much sums up her evil plan. She will set it in motion a few days before Naruto's birthday, then she will show up with Asuma as her date to his birthday celebration. After that all of her friends will know about their relationship. Since it's August now and Naruto's birthday isn't until October 10th, she will have a couple of months to plan out her plan better. She is also going to use this time to get to know Naruto better by spending time with him out at that training spot of his. Even if Kushina, Anko or someone else finds out about that, they hopefully won't suspect her of trying anything with Naruto after she shows up with Asuma on that birthday party.


Kurenai wore an evil smile, thinking over her master plan to get Naruto, while Naruto walked towards Jiraiya's house together with Konohamaru. Jiraiya's house is located in the middle of his parents huge backyard, about a ten minute walk away from his training spot. That's how big his parents backyard is. Naruto had called Konohamaru over today to "introduce him" to the pervert. Jiraiya and Konohamaru already know each other, but this introduction is more to get Konohamaru to join Jiraiya and Naruto in their training and research missions. Only a true pervert would be allowed to go on those missions.

That's why he has to pass Jiraiya's test before he becomes a part of their league of perverts. The only members so far are Jiraiya and Naruto, since Jiraiya doesn't let closet perverts or "posers" as he calls them into the club. The posers are the ones that pretend to be gentlemen but at the mere sight of a half naked woman, fly backwards with a nosebleed in true anime fashion. Kakashi, Minato and even the ramen chef Teuchi, would all fit into that category. A true pervert would just grin and compliment the woman on her fine assets or make a lewd invitation. Jiraiya has a keen eye to find people of his kind and now Naruto was bringing Konohamaru to put him to the test.

After arriving at Jiraiya's house, they find him sitting in the grass outside of the building, scribbling down on a notebook of his.

"Hihihi, yes this is brilliant!" Jiraiya giggled perversely as he scribbled down furiously.

Naruto walked up behind Jiraiya and aimed a round house kick to his head, which Jiraiya easily blocked with his hand.

"What do you want, brat?" Jiraiya asked in a a casual tone, not at all bothered that Naruto had just tried to kick him in the head.

Naruto pulled back his leg and said "I think Konohamaru has what it takes to join us on those research missions, Ero-sennin!"

Jiraiya turned to glance at Konohamaru for a second before returning to his notebook "Another brat? I don't think so"

"Who are you calling brat, you old pervert!" Konohamaru yelled, glaring at the legendary sannin "I'll kick you in the nuts kore!"

Jiraiya frowned as he turned to Naruto "See?" he said before returning to the notebook again.

Naruto sighed "Well I vouched for him, if you won't at least give him the test, then I will stop going on those research missions with you"

"Fine!" Jiraiya said with twitching eyebrows as he pocketed his notebook then stood up and walked towards Konohamaru. He leaned down and stared Konohamaru up and down "So you think you have what it takes to be one of us, huh brat?"

"Yeah, I'll pass any test you throw at me kore!" Konohamaru replied confidently. He didn't even know what he was signing up for, he just went with it since he wants to hang out with Naruto since he looks up to him.

Jiraiya hummed as he turned to Naruto "Use that transformation which you always use on the posers to knock them out"

"Nah Ero-sennin, I have a better idea!" Naruto said with a mischievous grin.

"Oho?" Jiraiya responded with a wide smile.

The three of them then started walking towards Naruto's parents house. As they were getting close and could see the house, and a very bored looking Kushina cleaning inside it, Jiraiya asked "Is the brat doing his test here?"

"Yeah" Naruto said with a smirk as he turned his head towards Konohamaru while pointing towards Kushina who was inside the living room cleaning "Go lift the skirt of my moms dress and tell her that she has nice panties".

"What!?" Konohamaru yelled with a slight blush "No way, I'm not doing that, are you crazy?!"

"Yeah brat, that's too much. I can't protect him from an angry Kushina, no one can" Jiraiya said, gawking at Naruto.

"It's just a prank, and it's a perfect test for you as well to see if you have what it takes to be one of us" Naruto said as he narrowed his eyes as he stared at his mom "Besides, she's got it coming. It's time we get some payback for all the pranks she has done to us"

"Yeah but, can't we like just throw water and slime and stuff on her again?" Konohamaru asked with a gulp "Please, I don't want to die, big bro!

"I have to side with Konohamaru here, what you are asking is insane Naruto. Besides, why do you even want someone to do that to your mom? You usually get upset by guys even staring at her" Jiraiya said, referring to how protective Naruto is of his mom. He has even beat some guys up after he thought they leered at his mom perversely, after he and her walked passed them. That is a regular occurrence since Kushina is a very attractive woman, to say the least. She is also very prudish and doesn't like those stares, she doesn't even give them a reason to stare either since she always dresses very conservatively, such as in her green housewife dress. Due to that, she doesn't mind when Naruto gives those perverts a piece of his mind. Now Jiraiya is pretty much exempt from that because he is a lost cause. There is no point in trying to beat him to get him to stop his perverted antics, since he won't stop no matter what. The Uzumaki/Namikaze family doesn't really mind though, they love him just the way he is.

"Yeah boss? Why don't you do it yourself kore!" Konohamaru tried.

"It would be weird if I did it because she is my mom" Naruto said with a frown "This is your test, take it or leave it"

"It's weird if I do it too! I have known her forever and she is your mom, boss!" Konohamaru said said with a frown, staring at the ground.

"You don't have to do it if you don't want to, but you will fail the test" Naruto said.

"Damn it!" Konohamaru said through gritted teeth as he stared at the red head woman through the window. She waved at them before she went back to mopping the floor.

"Okay I'll do it kore!" Konohamaru said as he took a step forward. Jiraiya placed his hand on his shoulder, stopping him "Wait brat, I think I may have a body armor from the war days that might fit you. I think it's best you use it or you might actually die"

Konohamaru gulped as Naruto chuckled "Don't listen to the old pervert, you will be fine Kon".

"Okay here I go, boss!" Konohamaru said as he slowly creeped his way towards the backdoor of the house.

"This is insane Naruto" Jiraiya said staring at him "If this somehow ends up with her blaming me for this, then I'll kick your ass for real".

"Relax Ero-sennin, she won't be mad at anyone except me, trust me on that" Naruto said with an evil grin. Then they watched as Konohamaru entered the house, leaving the backdoor open which would allow them to hear Konohamaru. He sneaked up on Kushina and lifted her skirt quickly, then yelled "Nice white panties, Naruto's mom!", including the color of her panties so that the two outside would know that he actually did it. Kushina shrieked loudly in response "Kyaaaa!" in a very uncharacteristic way. Konohamaru didn't linger around to see if she was going to kill him as he ran out as fast he could. Thankfully neither Jiraiya or Naruto was able to see her undergarments as Kushina was facing them when Konohamaru lifted the skirt of her dress.

Red faced, Kushina glared towards Konohamaru before following suit "I'll kill you, you little pervert!" she yelled as her hair rose above her head, taking the shape of the nine tailed fox's nine tails.

"Good job Konohamaru!" Naruto yelled while laughing, before pointing at his mom "Serves you right mom, that's what you get for ruining my ramen!"

Kushina stopped before she reached the veranda outside the door, staring at Naruto with wide eyes "Did you put him up to this?"

Meanwhile, Konohamaru was running past Naruto and Jiraiya with his hands up, wailing "WAAAAH, save me!"

"Of course I did, Konohamaru is my subordinate. He does what I tell him to do dattebayo!" Naruto said with a bratty smirk.

Kushina pointed a finger at him angrily "If he or anyone else does that again, then I'm beating you all up" she then grabbed the door handle, closing the door half way before saying in a very threatening tone, "And if you think that ramen prank was bad, just you wait what I'm going to do you next ttebane!". That had Naruto gulp as he feared what kind of pranks she would torture him with this time. She then closed the door, staring at them with an evil smile.

"Crap" Naruto said as Jiraiya laughed while waving towards Kushina "I had nothing to do with this Kushina!" he yelled as he and Naruto chased after the terrified Konohamaru. Needless to say, Konohamaru passed his test. Not only did he not fly backwards in a bloody nosebleed mess, he did something that actually impressed the both of them. It took balls to do that to Kushina of all people. The main reason Naruto had picked Konohamaru to do this, was because he knew that out of all Naruto's friends, Konohamaru is the one that Kushina would go the easiest on. Aside from Ino and Konohamaru, Kushina is always complaining about how annoying or rude his friends are. She is telling him things like, Shikamaru is too lazy to even greet people properly, Kiba is too loud and smells like a dog, Choji eats too much and so on. When it comes to Konohamaru and Ino on the other hand, she always encourages him to invite them over or to just hang out with them. So it was pretty easy to figure out that she favored those two over his other friends.


This day, what would be known as the pervert trio, was formed. From this day onward, Konohamaru would join them every Sunday for "research missions" and sometimes regular ninja training.

The following weeks until school started, Naruto's days were spent pretty much the same way. Every day, except Sundays, he would train his ass off out at his training spot in the back yard. He did not find Kurenai there again during those weeks. On Sunday's he and the rest of the pervert trio got up to no good and also trained a bit. The highlight of those Sunday's had to be when he was out alone "gathering research material" for Jiraiya. He found the Uchiha sisters and their mother bathing at one of those outdoor bathhouses. He got to see Mikoto topless which was great, but unfortunately for him the two sisters had their chests covered by a towel. It's for moments like that, that Naruto even does these research missions. And who can blame him?.

After Naruto's first day back in school, his daily routine changed a bit, other than school being part of it. In the afternoon after school, he went straight to his backyard to train. That's when he saw that Kurenai was there again, sitting on that same rock while reading, her legs crossed the same way as last time.

"Hello" Naruto said with a raised eyebrow. Kurenai lowered her book from her face and said "Hi" in a bored tone, before covering her face with the book again.

"I usually train out here, I hope you don't mind" Naruto said, while scratching the back of his head.

Kurenai lowered the book again as she stared at him with a smile "I know, don't mind me"

"Okay.." Naruto said glancing at her in confusion as she covered her face again with that damn book. He was wondering what he should do now, usually he starts out with boring strength and stamina training. Naruto wondered if he should just perform a few of his most flashy techniques, maybe that would impress her or something. Naruto smirked as he thought of something.

He created a rasengan in each hand, then spun the powerful technique around his index fingers, pointing his arms upwards "Hey, ever seen a guy with balls like these?"

Kurenai put down her book as she chuckled "Yeah, your dad" she said casually.

Naruto laughed "I don't know what my mom would say about that"

Kurenai shook her head at Naruto's antics "Shouldn't you be training?"

Naruto cleared his throat as the rasengans disappeared from his hands "Yeah, sorry" he said before turning around, then getting down on the ground to do some push ups. Kurenai giggled while the book covered her face which had one of Naruto's eyebrows twitch in annoyance. Kurenai spent the whole day there, reading or watching Naruto as he trained. Her favorite part was when he removed his shirt again, she didn't read anymore after that. Naruto didn't really mind her company, even though he didn't really understand why she had to read here of all places. Kurenai is after all one of the only women Naruto would say that he has a crush on. The other one being his very mischievous big sister figure, Anko.

This would continue for almost two months, except that Kurenai would start to give him some pointers in genjutsu (illusion) training. Namely ways to detect and dispel genjutsu, since Naruto had no interest in actual genjutsu, but didn't want to be stuck in one. Most of the time she just sat on that rock and read or checked him out though. As Naruto's birthday neared, he was considering if he should ask her out for lunch or a dinner at Ichiraku ramen or something. Since she has helped him so much with his anti-genjutsu training, treating her to ramen would be the least he could do. He also wanted to get to know her better due to his attraction to her. Those thoughts changed as Kurenai came to Naruto's birthday party with her date, Sarutobi Asuma...