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Author Note: For basic world information I refer you to (pokegirls dot org) and (www dot angelfire dot com / mn3 / pokegirls / main dot html). There is a specific World Map if you do an search for (Pokegirl world map) it should be the first one. It will refer to France as Noir. I have also crafted a few of my own Pokegirl entries which we will see in this story, even though I originally designed them for a Harry Potter Pokegirl story that never got off the ground.
Another Author Note: I have a poll to see which five to seven Naruto girls get added to the harem. Considering how Naruto and Hinata arrive they can be girls from any era, even Boruto. You'll note I put exactly one "male" but only because only God and the Kamis know if they were telling the truth. If other male Naruto/Boruto characters appear they will be AU with their own harem that Naruto will interact with.
Another Author Note: If you have a special request for a pokegirl breed or created one of your own, please PM me. It might see use.
Another Author Note: While I would love to be able to commission art for this story for Naruto and each of his girls, I am disabled and ALL my funds go to keeping me alive, fed, and able to post on the internet. If any artist out there wants to draw Tamer Naruto or any of his Pokegirls, just please PM me with the links to your work, I will gladly add links to your sites.
Another Author Note: Anyone who can guess what Pokegirl Breed I chose for Hinata before I reveal it will have a Tamer named after them later in the story. All guesses must be in reviews along with what you'd like for your alpha pokegirl if you are right.
"Speech" 'Thought' {Bijuu Speak} (Power or Jutsu) [Telepathy]
Okay, now that all that is done, on to the story
Arrival
Steam rose from the surface of the blue water of the massive hot spring surrounded by red sand beaches that gave way to barren ground. The nearest trees to the water's edge were nearly a mile away. It was an isolated spot that would have gotten few visitors simply by how remote it was. In a typical year maybe ten people visited, believing that because the pool was twenty miles outside the official borders of Jusenkyo that, it wasn't cursed. They couldn't have been more wrong.
"Ooof!" Naruto Uzumaki, sixteen year old genin of Konoha and container of the Kyuubi no Kitsune, had the wind knocked from his lungs and he performed an impromptu belly-flop from thirty feet in the air.
Why had he done such a thing? Well, it was the consequence of being knocked into Hyuuga Hinata when the girl was making her first attempt at summoning. When she had asked him to teach her how to summon, Naruto had been flattered. Of course he hadn't remembered what Jiraiya had told him about trying to summon without a contract, so he wasn't exactly the best teacher. To be fair it wasn't actually common knowledge what would happen to a summoner without a contract. As for why Naruto had collided with Hinata. That blame lay solely with Sai saying something inappropriate to Sakura. She had decked the socially awkward boy who was launched into him and caused him to be launched in turn toward Hinata and completely destabilize her summoning. It might not have ended too badly, if Naruto and Hinata's chakra hadn't been freakishly compatible and he somehow supercharged both Hinata and the summoning.
Hinata Hyuuga had been much luckier with her landing. She saw the oncoming pool of water and acted fast enough to tuck herself into a cannon ball type dive. It wasn't ideal, but it was better than nothing. She had plunged deep into the hot spring briefly touching the bottom of the large pool. Since she had time to prepare, she merely used some of the excess chakra in her system to literally leap out of the hot, but not scalding water. In less than two minutes she was standing on the surface of the onsen and walking to where she saw Naruto trying to catch his breath. She was so focused on her crush that she didn't notice the electric tingle that was running through her body. Using a chakra technique that Hana Inuzuka had taught her, she shed the water from her hair and clothes leaving them as dry as if she had never plunged into the water.
"Naruto-kun, are you alright?" Hinata was proud of herself for not stuttering. Aside from the incident when they had been first reunited after his training trip, she had avoided fainting around her crush and her stutter had been lessening. She was still soft spoken and shy, but it wasn't as crippling around Naruto as it had been. She was ever so thankful to Kurenai for asking her friends to help round out her training. Though, she probably could have lived without her senseis discovering one of the clan secrets of the Hyuuga, even if it had greatly amused them. "Is anything broken?" She could have used a diagnostic jutsu, but she had learned that her crush was very good at correctly assessing his injuries. Conserving chakra was always a good thing.
"I'm alright, Hinata-chan." Naruto got out as his breathing was beginning to return to normal. Despite landing on hard packed ground, he'd suffered no real injury. Sitting up he began to look around. "Well, we aren't in Konoha anymore and we aren't on Mount Myoboku. Pretty sure this isn't the Snake cave or the Slug realm either, because they would have confronted us by now."
Activating her Byakugan, Hinata frowned for a moment. She was well accustomed to seeing the patterns of natural chakra in the world, as was every Hyuuga. Watching nature chakra flow was actually comforting to every Byakugan wielder, however the chakra of the hot spring was chaotic and disturbing, more so than the chakra of the Bijuu. Instead of the ebbs and flows of natural energy through the land, it was scarred as if something had created a great scar in the world. This was reinforced by the fact that she could find no signs of animal life in the spring, the ground, or in the first mile of forest in every direction.
"Ano… Naruto-kun, it is… unnatural here." Hinata shivered as she deactivated her dojutsu, a slight frown forming on her lips as she felt a pleasant tingle in her eyes and the blood vessels surrounding them. 'That's unusual.'
"Yeah… it just doesn't feel right here, dattebayo" Naruto nodded to himself. "Let's put some distance between us and this spring before I try summoning a toad to tell us where we are."
"I think that might be for the best, Naruto-kun." Hinata nodded in agreement.
The pair of ninja were able to cover the mile of barren ground in less than two minutes, and then they were leaping through the trees at similarly impressive speeds. While the pair noted the trees were mutated and malformed, they seemed to be healthy and strong. As they drew further away from the hot spring the foliage began to appear to be more normal. Soon enough there were signs that there were birds, rodents, snakes, reptiles, amphibians and small marsupials living in the forest, but nothing larger than an opossum was spotted by either of them. Roughly ten miles away the pair stopped in a new clearing, this one only a hundred yards across.
"This should do," Naruto said as he landed in the grass covered ground. The fact that it was only ankle high made it clear it was early in the growing season. Biting his thumb to draw blood, Naruto flashed through the hand signs and slammed his hand to the ground channeling a good chunk of karma. "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"
"Yo!" Gamakichi called out as the smoke dissipated revealing the rather large orange toad. He had grown quite a bit since the last time he'd been summoned and now was larger than the average moose. "Hey Boss, what are you doing in this world? This isn't your home, not by a long shot."
"What do you mean Gamakichi? Are we in one of the summon's realms?" Naruto asked even as he was fishing out a sweet to give the toad. He might not be as obsessed with them as his brother, but Naruto was always careful to have something to give a summons. Tossing the orange toad a large jawbreaker he relaxed and waited for the explanation.
"Pfft, you aren't in any of the summons realms, Bro." Gamakichi said as he unwrapped the jawbreaker and popped it in his mouth. To a human it would have been almost too big to enjoy, but for him it was small enough to easily talk around. "Somehow you and Pretty Eyes here wound up in a completely different world. How'd you manage that, Bro?"
"Oh Kami, I forgot to introduce you. Hinata Hyuuga, this is Gamakichi, eldest son of Gamabunta and my personal summons. Gamakichi, this is Hinata Hyuuga, the heiress to the Hyuuga clan and kickass Kunoichi." Naruto's manner needed a bit of refinement, mostly as he never was taught more than the very basics and even that was haphazardly.
"It is an honor to meet you, Gamakichi-dono." Hinata bowed deeply to the toad showing a great deal of respect. The reason why was simple, as self important as the Hyuuga were, they held all summons in great esteem. "I am afraid I am partially responsible for our arrival here. Naruto-kun was teaching me how to Summon and it appears I made a grave error."
"Hey, it wasn't your fault. I'm the one that got knocked into you by Sai," Naruto corrected the bluenette. "Besides, I think I made a mistake in teaching you the summoning jutsu. I forgot to have you sign a contract first."
"Yeah, that would do it, Bro." Gamakichi sighed in exasperation at his summoner forgetting something so fundamental. "Hinata-san was probably going to be reverse summoned to one of the realms, but when you crashed into her your chakra messed that up."
"Well, this is a simple fix. We just go to Mount Myoboku then you tell Ero-Sennin to summon us back to Konoha." Naruto might not have been as educated as well as he should be, but he wasn't stupid and there were times he developed rather simple but ingenious to problems. "We'll be back home in no time, Dattebayo!"
"That is a relief, Naruto-kun," Hinata smiled as her crush detailed what she thought was a rather easy plan. "I have a duel with Hanabi-chan tomorrow that I can't be late for."
"Ah… that's not gonna be possible, Bro." Gamakichi nervously kicked the ground a bit as he rather reluctantly corrected Naruto. "This world isn't connected to home as well as your world. You can summon us, but we can't bring you back with us or reverse summon you. We can't even carry anything from here out… at all. We can't bring people from your world here either. You're stuck here until you find a way out and no, Hinata-san can't try summoning again unless she signs a contract."
"Nani!" both teenage humans cried out at once.
"What do you mean you can't bring them back!?" Tsunade Senju roared out her question loud enough that it was entirely possible that Daimyo Koyuki heard it in her fortress. The busty blonde Hokage had managed not to break her desk, but only just barely. "Just where are they?!"
"Another Realm that is at the very edge of how far we can be summoned," Gamakichi was unperturbed by Tsunade's outburst. He knew very well as mad as she got he was only in physical danger if he made some comment on her breasts again. "The only reason we can reach there at all is that Bro has enough chakra to summon us the distance. I doubt even the Hachibi's Jinchuuriki has enough Chakra to pull that off."
Tsunade sat down with a huff. She was angry, but it wasn't to the point she wanted to destroy her office…yet. Naruto had only been back a few months from his training trip. 'I haven't banked enough Naru-kun time for him to be gone long term again!' While part of her hated that he was gone again, there was the part that was celebrating the fact that he was safe from the Akatsuki. "Can we send anyone to him?"
"No, the Summons can survive the trip without issue as we are used to such travel, but you humans can't. Pops was surprised Bro survived, let alone managed to arrive intact." Gamakichi replied bluntly. He wasn't trying to be insulting. He knew how powerful and durable many ninja were, but this something they just couldn't survive normally. "As for how Pretty Eyes survived, we chalk that up to their chakra resonance. Never seen two humans so compatible chakra wise. Whatever Bro used to protect himself, he managed to protect her, too."
Tsunade started massaging her temples in order to ward off the migraine that was settling in. "Has he set up a schedule for summoning you so messages can be relayed?"
"Yeah, Pretty Eyes recommended that. In eight hours Bro will summon me." Gamakichi responded. "In case you're wondering we can take stuff to him when he summons us, but bringing things back even a scroll is a no go."
"Well at least that is a spot of good news. I bet he's asked for cup ramen." Tsunade's demeanor changed from distressed to relieved and a little amused when Gamakichi nodded. "I will send one of the slugs with some storage seals with supplies and a letter." Tsunade began writing a list of supplies and materials she needed to send to support her wayward Ninja. "And I want to know the Toads figure out a way to send someone before they can retrieve Naruto and Hinata."
"You got it, Tsunade-sama." Gamakichi nodded. "I'll tell Pops to expect Katsyu-sama soon."
Hinata Hyuuga for once in her life was absolutely furious with Naruto Uzumaki. She didn't hate him or anything like that. However if the pair of them weren't already getting the thrashing of a lifetime she would gladly beat him worse than Sakura ever did. Oh she'd heal him afterwards and apologize for getting violent, but she would still deliver the beating. Just because she loved the knucklehead didn't mean she didn't get aggravated with him at times. This was one of those times.
A few minutes prior:
"I think this cave has a bear in it." Hinata stated after she deactivated her Byakugan. After Naruto had dismissed Gamakichi, they continued east until they found the river and followed it downstream thinking it would eventually lead to civilization or a coast. That's when it began to rain and they decided to look for a cave. "We should look for another one."
"It's just one bear?" Naruto asked as he was formulating a plan. He'd hunted bears before he even finished the academy. They provided good meat and their furs sold for a lot of money. When Hinata confirmed it was just one, he'd smiled and drew a kunai. "Nah, we're gonna take this cave and have some bear meat for dinner."
The huddled figure in the cave had not been a simple bear. When they stood up on two legs they were nine feet tall and very obviously female with the pair of massive breasts. She was covered in brown fur, massively muscled, her hands and feet sported wicked looking claws. Her face was human-like with a slight bear like muzzle and bear ears atop her head. She had also been incredibly angry with Naruto for stabbing his kunai in her skull.
Now:
"(Crushing Punch!)" The Bear Woman yelled out as swung her massive paw at Naruto's head who attempted to block with his arms. There was the sickening sound of bones cracking and then the pop of the Shadow Clone exploding. "Grizzlar?"
"Wolf Pack tactics and don't let up." The real Naruto shouted as he formed his signature attack jutsu in one hand. The orb of blue energy making a shrill sound as it formed. Thrusting it towards the unprotected flank of the Bear Woman he managed to make contact with her lower back. "(RASENGAN!)"
The rotating ball of chakra ground through the thick fur of the Bear Woman, then into the dense flesh over her kidneys. Unfortunately the long arms of the beast allowed her to backhand Naruto before he could drill much further into her. The blonde ninja tumbled ass over teakettle for a dozen feet before getting back to his feet.
Despite the pain in her stomach from where the Bear Woman's claws had ripped through her jacket and mesh armor before leaving four long furrows in her skin, Hinata leapt into position. She had a clear shot at the Bear who had whipped around to roar at Naruto.
"You are in range of my Divination." Hinata intoned in an eerie voice channeling all her anger at Naruto into her upcoming attack. The Eight Trigrams symbol appeared beneath Hinata as she took her modified jyuuken stance. "(Eight Trigrams Thirty Two Palms!)" Hinata called out as she rushed forward under the guard of the Bear Woman. "Two palms! Four palms! Eight palms! Sixteen palms! Thirty-two palms!"
"Grizzlar?" she groaned out before falling backwards unconscious as none of the energy in her body was functioning properly.
"YATTA!" Naruto called out as he rushed to Hinata and tried to hug her. Only to find himself on the floor after being rabbit punched in the throat hard enough to paralyze his vocal chords. When he looked up at Hinata, he saw an expression he'd only ever seen when Choji made the mistake of grabbing one of her cinnamon buns. Now Naruto normally isn't afraid of much, but at this moment he'd definitely say he was afraid of Hinata. Immediately he started to say he was sorry, but all that would come out was squeaks.
"I am very angry with you, Naruto-kun." Despite her anger, Hinata's voice still held the fondness she always had for Naruto. "You rushed in to confront a Bear without even asking me my opinion. If you had waited I would have told you there was another cave that was not three hundred yards away. We could have rested and then made spears for your hunt. As it is, we are both injured and we have a prisoner who is heavily injured as well. I have enough chakra to heal two of us, but not a third. This would be somewhat acceptable if the bear had been a real bear instead of something that looks like it comes from Orochimaru's labs."
Naruto paused as he heard that and then looked down at the floor of the cave in shame. He had rushed in before asking Hinata what she wanted to do. Of course he'd intended to have the bear killed in a single strike. It hadn't worked out that way, and he was secretly glad as he didn't like killing humans. Hinata was the one person his age he had never angered before and now he wondered if she would start treating him like Sakura did. The worst part was he would not blame her if she did, despite how much it would hurt him.
"You heal yourself, I'll be fine." He tried to say, but again all that came out was squeaks and croaks. He then bowed his head again and prepared for an actual punishment from the Kunoichi.
"I have some of my special ointment. After I heal myself and make sure the Bear Woman is stabilized, I will treat your wounds, Naruto-kun." Hinata's anger with the blonde was fading in the face of his contrition and apology. 'Well, at least he apologizes much faster than Kiba does. Hopefully he'll learn the lesson faster as well.' In her more normal tone of voice Hinata decided it was time for her minor apology. "I am sorry I struck you, Naruto-kun. I should not have done that."
"It's not a problem, dattebayo." Naruto's voice was muted a bit as he was beginning to recover. "I deserved it."
"No, you did not." Hinata said firmly. "I am always angry with Sakura-san because she continuously pummels you for no good reason. My reason was only slightly better and even then I should not have done so. Now, I am going to stabilize the Bear Woman, do you have any ninja wire to restrain her?"
"Uh… no… but I have quarter inch Steel-Silk rope," Naruto offered as he triggered one of the seals Jiraiya had put on his thigh holster. "And I know shibari because of one of Ero-Sannin's little pranks."
Hinata couldn't help but raise an immaculately trimmed eyebrow at this revelation. What were the odds she'd know two people who knew shibari. Though, she much preferred learning that interesting fact by being told, rather than how she learned that Tenten practiced the art as well. Luckily she had convinced Ino to remove the images from her brain but still allowed her the abstract knowledge. New images popped into her head, but were thankfully composed of Naruto tying her up before making use of her as he saw fit. That in turn created an epic blush on her cheeks. 'My family are such perverts and I am one of the worst.'
"Well… then… why don't you tie her up while I work on her wounds?" Hinata was ever so proud she didn't stutter.
Lady Tsunade had indulged in a little sake in order to calm her nerves and temper enough to deal with anything. She wasn't anywhere near drunk, just slightly buzzed. This allowed her to realize she wasn't mad at anyone in particular, just the situation. Of course the situation meant she had to summon Team Kakashi and Team Kurenai as well as Jiraiya, Iruka, and Hiashi Hyuuga to inform them of what happened. She had just finished explaining what happened and was waiting for responses.
"Well, it'll be practically paradise for Hinata-chan." Kiba Inuzuka chuckled as he scratched behind Akamaru's ears. The feral looking shinobi was obviously pleased for his teammate. "Alone with Naruto and nobody to interrupt them, it's half her dreams come true."
"I concur. Hinata-chan's distress from being separated from her hive will be lessened considerably with Naruto-san there." Shino Aburame spoke up, making a few people jump as they took notice of him. "We should still attempt to retrieve them before Hinata-chan decides to form a new hive."
"She has that much of a crush on Naruto-kun?" Sakura Haruno was a bit surprised. Everyone but Naruto knew of Hinata's crush on the boy. Sakura herself hadn't said anything to Naruto as she was concerned it would only be temporary and her brother in all but blood did not need another girl breaking his heart. She'd done enough damage herself.
"A crush?" Hiashi Hyuuga shook his head. "No, my daughter does not suffer from a crush. While the bulk of my daughter's personality is from Hitomi, in this aspect she is like me. I was in love with Hitomi from a young age. Other women just did not interest me at all. That was a source of friction between Tsume-san and myself for years." As he spoke, Kiba's jaw nearly hit the floor and the others were not much better. "I am glad that Hinata did not suffer the same problems with you, Kiba-san."
"Pfft, I never had a crush on Hinata. I mean she is gorgeous and all, but I kinda liked Sakura better." Kiba scratched the back of his neck. "Hinata-chan is like another sister to me. And honestly I can't help but find the way she chases after the clueless baka funny and annoying. I mean I want those two to start dating already."
"Wait! You had a crush on me?" Sakura Haruno tried to process that concept. "Why? I treated you as badly as I did Naruto-kun."
"Let's just say that Inuzuka and Nara men have similar tastes in women." Kakashi Hatake stated with an eye smile. "Back to the topic at hand, what we can do for my cute Genin and the lovely Hinata-chan."
"Yes, let's focus on that." Tsunade shook herself out of gossip mode. "I have a few genin teams gathering the supplies for a long term mission. Shizune is requisitioning medical supplies. What I need from Kiba, Shino and Sakura is to gather Hinata and Naruto's clothing, some personal effects, and some creature comforts for them. Hiashi you will supply Hinata with copies of any Jyuuken and Clan techniques she can learn from scrolls, if your Elder council attempts to stop you, I will declare them traitors to the Leaf." Everyone was surprised to see Hiashi merely nod in response. "Iruka I want copies of the current Academy textbooks as well as scrolls on at least three Taijutsu styles. Kakashi, I want as many ninjutsu scrolls as you can produce. Jiraiya I want every book and scroll about the basics of sealing we can spare."
"The last is hardly needed," Jiraiya chuckled, "That kid is a Fuinjutsu sponge. He's got his parents' knack for it. Things that took me years to understand he gets in weeks. A few years practice and he'll surpass me, even without clones."
"Then assemble the materials so my daughter will learn." Hiashi interjected. "Do that and I will allow you to do your research at the Hyuuga Onsen every Thursday."
"Your will be done, Hiashi-sama!"
"Thank Kami the rain lightened up enough to let me summon Gamakichi without soaking the packs." Naruto chuckled as he set the two shinobi backpacks down. One was marked with Hyuuga clan symbol of a yellow sun and a scarlet spiral teardrop. The other had the Scarlet Uzumaki Spiral of the royal line.
"Ano… the standard ninja pack is waterproof, Naruto-kun." Hinata had considered not telling Naruto that and letting him believe that the Villagers hadn't been completely screwing him over, but decided against it. It was time he learned the truth, aside from a few handfuls of people, Konoha simply saw him as a menace. They were wrong, of course, but it did not change how he was viewed. However there was something she did want to remind him of, that some people loved him more than anything. "Even if it wasn't, Tsunade-sama would only get the best for you."
Naruto had actually physically deflated when Hinata told him about the standard ninja pack. He wanted to refute her. To tell her he had to shell out three times the normal price for a waterproof pack, but it died on his lips. Hinata never lied to him… ever. She didn't even try to bluff him when they played poker. If he hadn't witnessed her lie to others he would have said it was impossible for her to do at all. So he was faced with the reality that not only was he largely ignored by most of Konoha, but they went out of their way to cheat him out of money.
"Yeah, you're right, Baa-chan would get me the best money could buy." Naruto cheered himself up with that thought. "Let's see what they sent us."
"She's not the only one." Hinata whispered as she opened her pack. As she suspected it was her standard pack with several storage scrolls and were conveniently labeled. As she was examining each one, she was making a mental checklist of what they contained. However two of them caught her completely off guard. "Fuinjutsu materials? Hyuuga clan techniques? How did she get Father to agree to send me these?"
"Hey, these aren't my clothes!" Naruto exclaimed, thankfully keeping his voice below a dull roar. True enough he was not holding up one of his orange jumpsuits. The dark gray ANBU style pants had dark burnt orange blood-stripes down the outside of each leg and then orange flames from the hem of the pant leg to mid calf. The shirt was sleeveless style preferred by ANBU, again dark grey with burnt orange blood-stripes that would align with the pants. "I bet Sakura-chan is responsible. She tried to get me into an outfit like this just last week. When we get back I am pranking her so hard."
"Sakura-san chose that outfit?" Hinata's eyes narrowed as she heard that. She'd been assured by the pinkette that she had no interest in Naruto that way.
"Yeah, she said something about how my secret admirer would like it," Naruto rolled his eyes. "As if I, of all people, would have a secret admirer in Konoha. Ah well, I always kinda liked the ANBU look and this at least has some orange." Naruto shrugged, "Well, since this suit is trashed, I am going to change on the other side of that boulder."
"O-okay." Hinata cursed her slight stutter as she imagined her crush naked. Shaking it off she decided to take the moment to change as well, giving her jacket and shirt were absolutely shredded. "I'll tell you when I am done changing."
"Sounds like a plan." Naruto nodded before he stepped around the boulder.
Hinata quickly shucked her ruined clothing into a pile. It wasn't until she was unbinding her breasts that she noticed something was wrong. Hyuuga were notorious for being early bloomers and being quite well endowed. At sixteen she had a bust that made her Senseis slightly jealous. It wasn't just that they were large, but that they were firm but soft as well as perfectly formed and refused to sag even a quarter inch. Anko had bemoaned that it just wasn't fair that a perfect set of tits was on a girl who wouldn't show them off. She knew from bra shopping that she was borderline the way to E cups and well more than a handful. Except right now she wasn't nearly as large at that. Somehow, they had shrunk so she was comparatively flat-chested. Oh she was bigger than Sakura, but not by the degree she had been. In fact she probably matched what Ino had a year ago, large B-cups. 'What the hell happened to my tits?'
After her little freak out over the physical changes in her body, Hinata had dressed as best she could given a lot of her tops no longer fit correctly. She lucked out in that she had kept a few of her old suits of Mesh Armor and the only alterations it had needed was removing the feet so it would fit. She had wrapped her breasts, but not binding them as much as she had to. Unlike Anko she definitely wore panties, though she was so going to punish Kiba and Shino for only packing her lacey orange ones. Over that she world a pair of short that came to mid thigh, a pair of stockings that came to just above her knee, her shinobi sandals, a sleeveless lavender sweater, and a wide purple obi to give the sweater shape. Finally, she wore her Hitai-ate around her neck as usual.
"Alright, Naruto-kun you can come out, I am dressed." Hinata called out as she started creating a stone fire pit near the entrance to the cave. Placing her ruined clothes in the pit, then made the tiger seal before muttering "Katon: Fiery Stream."She then let out a long breath that quickly became a three foot long tongue of blue flame that quickly ignited the clothes. "Not the most idea fuel source, but it will drive off some of the chill, as long as we don't add Naruto-kun's jumpsuit."
"Why wouldn't we want to burn what's left of my jumpsuit?" Naruto asked as he approached the fireside with said jumpsuit in hand. Like Hinata he wore a mesh armor body suits over which he wore the ANBU pants and shirt with the burnt orange blood-stripe and a black leather weapons harness that sported crimson Uzumaki swirl belt buckle. He was wearing his usual shinobi sandals and a pair of armored forearm protectors. As always he had his Hitai-ate on his forehead.
"My clothes are cotton and won't be poisonous when it burns." Hinata explains. "Your jumpsuit has a lot of polyester and that would not be good for our lungs."
"Ah, alright. I'll just toss them outside so we don't have to smell them all night," Naruto shrugged as he filed away what Hinata had told him. "By the way, you look really cute in that outfit. If we were back in Konoha, all the guys would be flirting with you."
"T-thank you, Naruto-kun," Hinata blushed prettily from the compliment. 'Naruto-kun thinks I am cute.' Pausing for a moment, "Would you f-flirt with me?"
"Hmmm, yeah, but I really suck at it according to Ero-sannin." Naruto shrugged, "And you are WAY out of my league. I mean you could have any guy you wanted, even the teme."
"I would not want Sasuke-san if he were the last man alive." Hinata stated evenly as she tried to hide the bit of rancor in her voice. Once upon a time she might have tolerated Sasuke enough to hold a civil conversation. Since the day he had driven his hand through Naruto's chest, Hinata could honestly say she loathed the boy almost as much as she did the Raikage. If left alone in a room with either one, she would try to kill them. "As for me being out of your league, that is not the case at all, Naruto-kun."
'Wait a minute? Why did I say that? How did I say that without fainting?' Hinata's mind was reeling. She was never this forward even in her wildest dreams.
Naruto had been in the middle of unsealing a pair of MREs when what Hinata said penetrated his mind. If she had said that very thing before he went on the training trip, he'd have just thought she was being gloomy. After all, Hinata was literally one of the two living Princesses of Konoha. She was right beside Tsunade Senju when it came to pedigree, intelligence, talent, and looks. He would have assumed she just didn't know what she was worth. However, Jiraiya had taught him to put together the smaller details until he got a glimpse of the larger picture. All the stuttering, blushing and fainting that he once considered just Hinata being sick suddenly had a new meaning.
"Hinata-chan, are you saying that you would like to be with me?" Despite the new deductive skills he possessed, Naruto was still obscenely blunt. He really had no tact, which some people found incredibly endearing. Seeing her nod enthusiastically had nearly knocked the breath out me. "Before I ask you out, I need to tell you about something…"
"If you are about to tell me you are the Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi no Kitsune, I already know." Hinata decided to interrupt him. "I pieced it together when you were away with Jiraiya-sama. When I confronted Tsunade-sama with what I knew, she told me the story. That the Yondaime sealed the Kyuubi in you and that you keep the village safe from it. It makes no difference to me. Naruto-kun is Naruto-kun."
Omake
"There is an issue with the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki." Zetsu spoke up causing everyone at the meeting to instantly fall silent. This was an odd occurrence as invariably it took either Pain or Itachi to silence everyone. "According to the Toads, the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki is in another dimension far removed from this one."
"Well, that's a really simple fucking fix. Pain-sama can summon one of the fucking Toads and demand they fucking take one of us there." Hidan, the semi-psychotic worshiper of Jashin spoke up. His vocabulary as crude as it was, had been cleaned up quite a bit when he became a member. "We already fucking sealed the Ichibi and the fucking Nibi. And I am still fucking pissed I couldn't sacrifice that slut to Jashin."
"Hidan-san, I spoke to you several times about you insulting women." Konan's voice would have made the most powerful Hyoton user envious with it's coldness. "Do you want to find out what a thousand paper cuts will do to certain parts of your anatomy?"
"Fuck no." Hidan shook his head rapidly. "I'm fucking sorry, alright?"
"You are forgiven… this time." Konan said after a tense moment.
"It is not as easy as that Hidan-san," Pain spoke up. "I cannot command the Toads, Slug, or Snakes with the Rinnegan. If I could then assigning a team to capture the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki would have been unnecessary once he signed the contract. Of greater concern is the fact that while we can hold the Ichibi and Nibi forever, anything more powerful than the Yonbi will be able to escape the Gedo Statue given enough time. As such we will be ceasing operations to retrieve the Gobi, Rokubi, Nanabi and Hachibi until we can secure a method to retrieve the kyuubi. Effective immediately we are back to fundraising operations for our research."
"Ooooh, Itachi and I will handle the Kissing booths again!" Kisame spoke up sounding entirely too eager.
"I might as well," Itachi shrugged as he pulled out a stick of pocky.
"I wanted to do the fucking Kissing Booth this time. Jashin Dammit!" Hidan muttered darkly. "Stitches and I will do the magic shows… again. Fucking hell, I hate getting sawed in half."
"What did I say about calling me Stitches?" Kakuzu gave the evil eye to his undying partner.
"Deidara and I will handle the bake sales." Sasori spoke up. "But no more firecrackers in the birthday cakes."
"Aw come on, Art is a Blast." Deidara laughed. "And the look on Ay's face when the cake blew up was funny."
"You do realize I was speaking of mercenary work and collecting bounties," Pain said after massaging his temples to ward off the headaches caused by the other members. "What kind of missing nin are all of you?"
"The ones who want world peace but our best talents are in mayhem and destruction." Itachi replied to the rhetorical question.
"Oh… right." Pain sighed in defeat.