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The clatter of plates and pans could be heard resounding throughout the small apartment.
Naruto was standing at the stove trying to cook eggs. He was so used to only eating instant ramen that he had forgotten how much he actually enjoyed cooking.
'Cooking's fun and all but nothing beats ramen and on top of tha-' Naruto was brought out of his thoughts by a scream coming from the bedroom.
"NOOOO!!"
'That sounds like Chō-chan!'
Naruto dropped what he was holding and ran to the bedroom. Naruto quickly threw the door open and stepped inside.
He could see her sitting up in bed with her hand over her heart. When she heard the sound of the door hit the wall her head snapped up.
She could only see a figure standing in the doorway. A look of dread spread across her face as the figure began to walk closer.
Naruto approched her slowly and asked "are you okay?"
Chō began to crawl away until her back hit the wall, she felt trapped. There was no where to run, she could only attack.
"Stay away!" Chō screamed as she threw a kunai she had formed of diamond.
The kunai sliced into Naruto's cheek and the stuck itself halfway in the wall. Naruto winced and brought a hand up to the cut.
"What the hells the matter with you?!" He exclaimed.
'Wait' Chō thought 'I know that voice' Her vision became more clear as her eyes adjusted her surroundings. She could see much better, now she could see golden hair and blue eyes.
"Naruto?" She asked.
"Who else would it be!? I live here!"
She jumped out of the bed and ran up to Naruto."Oh kami I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to do that!"
Naruto let go of his anger and waved it off. "It's fine, just forget it." He said as he began to walk away.
"You're not going to clean it or bandage it?" Chō asked.
"No, I never had to before so why start now. I've always healed super fast anyway."
"Are you sure? I can do it for you." Chō said.
"It's fine Chō... So do you want breakfast or what?" Naruto asked.
Chō looked up and stifled a laugh.
"So I cut you and in response you treat me to breakfast?"
Naruto blinked and said "...yes"
"I hope you don't treat you're enemies like that."
Naruto laughed. "Everyone needs breakfast once in a while."
Chō rolled her eyes and took a seat at the table. Naruto quickly placed the plates of food down and sat across from her.
She looked down at her plate of food and just stared at it. She couldn't remember the last time she actually tasted something.
Naruto could see her just staring at her plate and asked "You okay?"
Chō snapped out of her thoughts and said "Yeah I'm fine" and she began to eat.
After going so long without knowing the taste of food this was the best breakfast she's ever had.
After a moment of eating Naruto broke the silence "So... do you wanna talk about last night?"
Chō sighed and said "What is there to talk about."
"You cried yourself to sleep... I think there's a lot to talk about, and there's also this cut you just gave me." He responded.
She looked at his cheek guiltily and said "I'm sorry about that... but I'm fine Naruto, really"
"Chō-chan people don't cry like that when they're fine."
She didn't miss the -chan he added to her name, but still she remained silent.
Deciding it was best to drop it Naruto asked "so what are we doing today then?"
"You'll see when we get to the training grounds"
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Once again our beloved characters find themselves at the training grounds.
"Ok. Now that I've taught you how to protect yourself I need to make sure you can use it effectively."
"What do you mean?" Naruto asked.
"I mean, what good is knowing how to make armor if you're too slow to create it before the attack lands?"
Chō took out a kunai and held up for Naruto to see. She said "I'm going to throw this up in the air and I want you to cover half your body before it hits the ground."
"You ready?" She asked.
Naruto nodded and Chō let the kunai fly. From this point on Naruto was on the clock. He quickly created his starting gem on the back of his hand.
He had realized early on that creating a small crystal first and building off of that makes things go faster and smoother.
He began to spread the Crystal around his fist and up his arm simultaneously as quick as possible but after a few seconds he heard a thud.
He looked to see the kunai halfway in the ground and sighed when he saw what little progress he made. Chō came over to inspect his work and shook her head.
"You only managed to reach your elbow and in your haste you neglected the quality of the diamond itself." Chō quickly glanced around and picked up a sturdy looking stick.
She swung down hard on Naruto's arm and the diamond cracked. With a second swing she all but broke the armor.
"The diamond is supposed to break the stick not the other way around. I thought you'd do better than this." Chō stated
She picked up the kunai and tossed it to Naruto. "Here you need more practice."
Naruto frowned and asked "Where are you going?"
"I need to run some errands." She said as she turned her back to him.
Chō gave him a sideways glance and said "Dont stop practicing till I get back"
Naruto stared at her as she shrunk into the distance. He glanced to the kunai she had tossed to him.
Chō's words rang through his mind.
I thought you'd do better than this.
"I'll show her. Dont ever underestimate Naruto Uzumaki!" With that said Naruto once again threw the kunai up to the sky and got to work.
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Chōshinsei was never one for deep thought or contemplation but it seemed at the moment she was enraptured by the mysteries of her mind.
As she left Naruto to train on his own, naturally she begain to think of him while heading to her destination.
She came to realize that he had sparked something when they'd first trained together. It was something she'd never felt before but it wasn't unwelcome.
Her thoughts drifted towards the other emotions this boy elicited. She began to think of last night and the more she thought about it, the less sense it made.
As an angel she had always been able to feel and express emotions but never with such intensity. She thought of how she had been paralyzed by sorrow and how her body shook with grief, she suspected that the ferocity of these emotions could be attributed to her new physical form or simply a result of her being in the mortal plane.
As her mind recalled the events of that night she remembered how Naruto held her in his arms to comfort her. The longer she thought of this the more heat she could feel rising to her cheeks.
Smack!
Chō fell back and grasped her nose in pain.
So consumed was she, by the myriad of thoughts that swirled through her mind, that this wall went unseen.
"That's embarrassing" She mumbled.
Looking up she could see that the wall she had run into was actually the wall of her destination, the konoha library.
Picking herself up she waltzed into the building with her mind set on finding a good book on chemistry. She could see an elderly man behind the desk antending to some books that were out of place.
Approching him she asked "Where is the science section here?"
The librarian glanced down to see Chō staring at him inquisitively.
"Science section? Well there hasn't been one of those in a long time. You see, It's a dying practice." The man stated.
"Do you have anything at all?"
The wrinkled man leaned forward and asked "ain't you a little young for books like that?"
"I'm smarter than I look" She said smiling.
He chuckled softly. "Well, I can get you everything we have right here." He stepped up onto a ladder, grabbed a couple books from a shelf and placed them on the desk.
The stack was about four books high but each of them were indeed science books. Some on chemistry and one, interestingly enough, on bio chemistry.
"This is all there is?" Chō asked in confusion. She had heard before that konoha had one of the best collections of knowledge in the elemental nations. This did not reflect that.
"Well I suppose there could be a few more books scattered around the library if you're willing to look for 'em. Once science started to die out we never took the time to gather the books together and organize 'em into a section." The elderly man stated.
"I'll make sure to have a look around. Thank you." Chō grabbed her stack of books and decided to look around for a bit before heading back to show her findings to Naruto.
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The sound of a kunai hitting the ground could be heard as well as a string of curses shortly after.
Naruto once again brought up his free hand to smack the diamond plating, and again he sent a pulse of chakra to shatter the bonds, and again the crystals fell to the ground.
Chō had been gone for so long that the sun was now setting and Naruto still could not do as he was asked. He had managed to exponentially increase the rate at which his diamonds formed by creating two extra starting gems along his body.
This of course increased the required level of focus but he was getting the hang of it.
Naruto took a deep breath and tossed the kunai into the air once more. He closed his eyes to focus. He created his starting gems, one of the back of his fist, another on the right side of his midsection, and the last on his knee.
With these placements the crystals can grow out from each location and meet eachother half way.
He continued to grow the crystals out from each point at an equal pace. He could feel as the three different blotches of diamond grew ever closer to one another, and suddenly they met.
For the first time all three points where connected and the kunai still hadn't hit the ground.
He opened his eyes to the sound of a kunai hitting the ground. He had done it, but there was still one glaring problem... he couldn't move half of his body.
He would ask Chō how to do it but she obviously wasn't around. So he got to thinking.
It would be extremely easy to just create joints where the armor could move and rotate but that would leave openings where he would be vulnerable.
If he could find a way to make the armor move more freely while maintaining it's strength he would be nearly invincible. Perhaps there was a way to make it less like a solid and more like a liquid, that way he could move unimpeded.
snap snap snap
"Hello?! anybody home?"
Chō was waving her hand in front of his face to get his attention. Naruto was quickly brought out of his thoughts and smiled brightly at his new friend and teacher.
"You see I told you I could do it!" Naruto said ecstatically.
"I never said you couldn't Naruto-kun" She said giggling.
"Now come out of there I have something to show you!"
Naruto broke off his crystalline armor and asked "Really? What is it? Is it something really cool like a... a super explosion?!"
Chō laughed before shoving the books she had gotten out in front of him and saying "Nope! But it's time to study!"
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