Hyuuga Hisashis eyes bulged obscenely.
"Hyuuga Hinatas" jaw dropped.
"Uzimkai Naruto" blushed notably.
And the 5th Hokage grinned in triumph.
"Wha, what the hell does betrothal mean and how can I accept it if I don't say anything oba-chan?" "Hinata" blurted.
"Naruto" blushed deeper.
"I mean what the hell just happened" Naruto looked wildly around at the people around him, something had happened but he'd missed most of it all he knew was it was serious and nothing would stop him until he got to the bottom of it.
"Naruto, hear's some money go take Hinata and get her some ramen, she…erm…you look starved" Tsunade chuckled as she tossed a small coin purse to the young genin.
Detective work was immediately banished from Narutos mind as the promise of his favourite kind of ramen appeared, free ramen.
"Yah, Hinata, RAMEN! Lets go" seizing his own body by the hand Naruto dragged an unresisting Hinata from the Hokages office.
Leaving the clan head and the Hokage alone.
Hisashis jaw tightened.
"You think you've won and this is over? The clan can overturn this with a unanimous decision and more to the point what was the point of that? You clearly know more about the situation than me so ignorance can't explain your actions WHAT WAS THE POINT?" Hiashi finished with a roar.
Tsunade raised one eyebrow.
"The point was in part due to your lack of respect for me, and as a further warning raise your voice to me again and the illustrious Hyuuga clan will spend the next few days fishing pieces of you out of the surrounding trees to fill a respectable coffin. You are a strong clan head and powerful ninja but I am a Sennin, were I Jiraiya you would already be food for his toads and I know Orochimaru always makes it a point to outdo the Hermit."
She paused for a moment to see if Hisashi was suitably chastised, if not that he seemed to have regained control of his emotions.
"As to the point, call it the "foolish" whim of an old lady and that is all it is at the moment, a whim. However tread lightly, or it will become an interest of mine and then a goal and then up to the point of assigning missions to see that this engagement succeeds. So consider that when next you flaunt my authority."
Hisashi grimaced "Well Hokage, if that is all, I will return to my estate and make certain I have not "Flaunted your will" in thought or deed" he turned to go.
"Hisashi, this shouldn't be about winning or losing she's your daughter and he's a good boy, for the love of the village, he was your wife's team-mate and your best friends so…"
Hisashi rounded on Tsunade, his face distorted in rage.
"She'd not my daughter, she's a FAILURE and a disgrace to her mother and that THING isn't his son, it's just something that wears him as a skin!" with that he stalked out.
Tsunade hung her head in sorrow, God he still blamed them both.
Sakura stood meekly outside the office of the only person in Konoha who could help her.
A nervous young genin exited the office eyes fixed upon her hair in stark terror.
"The sensei will see you now"
Aburame Shino sat otside his familys hive and waited.
He was scared, strike that he was terrified an unusual sensation for the usually aloof and controlled genin. He felt like a newly blinded person, bereft of his beloved insects and all the sensory input they provided him he felt lost and alone, here in the Aburame stronghold.
His ears detected an approaching person and his eyes confirmed it was his father. He laughed bitterly to himself, when was the last time he'd had to rely on those senses, with his bugs he could detect even his father from a hundred metres in any condtion.
"How is…she" he asked.
His father sat down beside him "Fine now, we sedated her and installed a trainer queen, it will handle the running of the hive until you return to your body."
"And if I don't?"
"We'll face that if it comes to you son no matter what you are Aburame Shino our clans prodigy you will always have a place here."
He again regarded his sons' current form.
"And at worst your physiology is now female, in this form you can become a mighty queen and birth many strong broods"
Shino brightened noticeably.
"That is a comforting thought! To breed my own bugs to my own designs. I hope Tenten would understand"
His father smiled "She would have to; she could not leave our clan with THAT body"
"What about her paralysing irrational fear of insects?"
"Ah she'll learn to live with that."
"…Father isn't the point of an irrational fear is you don't just get over it?"
"You worry too much my son."
Sakura approached the great mans'desk with hesitation.
"Great master, I know this form is unfamiliar but I beg of you, this…this hair requires a service only you can supply, it needs the SASUKE!"
"Fu fu fu!" The chair whirled slowly to reveal Konoha's Master of the Linked Scissors, The Coiffured Whirl, the Ninja Hairstylist; Hoshi Masote.
Barely under six foot, in his late 20s but possessed of style and verve that only Sasuke-kun could he sat straighter in his seat and let loose his infamous grin that had troubled a hundred kunoichi.
"The student of my greatest enemy arrives, with the greatest challenge possible. To tame and shape the hair of THAT bloodline, the bloodline that resists and endangers Konoha at every turn. What can I do but accept"
He stood failing to note and odd creaking noise from behind him as if someone had just opened the window to his office.
"We shall begin at once, this will require my every ounce of ability but I assure you" He paused for a moment his beautiful face distorting in puzzlement.
"Did someone just open that…"
"DYNAMIC ENTRY!"
With that the Blue Beast of Konoha, Maito Gai, launched himself into the room and blasted Hoshi Masote through a bookcase.
"LEEEEEEE!!! How can you endanger your training and unique look and power with this preening fools ways. I can only assume this is the influence of that lavender tressed minx. Well I the great Maito Gai know the cure for lovesickness, the extreme training that will unlock your hidden Power of Youth and for which you need every inch of your hair, come now!"
With that Gai bundled a Sakura in deep and total shock under his arm and leaped out of the open window.
Hoshi Masote dragged himself from under the bookcase he had been unceremoniously driven into.
"Maito Gai, my great rival, your insanity has endangered this village for the last time."
Ino twisted uncomfortably in her seat. This body was so-so slow and bulky, she thought everyone was staring at her andworse yet it was STILL hungry, after a half a salad AND two grapefruit. However her attention snapped back as the Hokage addressed her again.
"So how long do you think this jutsu could last?" Tsunade asked in an urgent tone.
"Well" Ino hesitated "If it had been just my charka to power it, a day or less, but I think that Sound Nin's charka got caught up aswell and he was a chunin so…maybe three, four days?" She finished quietly.
Tsunade relaxed, this wouldn't be so bad the situation would resolve itself and she'd have her twelve genin back in action and ready for the C rank missions that were piling up in no time.
"Except wait, Naruto's charka got caught up in it aswell and he's a bit of a stamina freak so that might add another few days…I guess"
Tsunade had stiffened.
"Ino…to make this jutsu permanent what would you have to do?"
Ino laughed nervously "There are seals, but I hadn't used any of them but with just the jutsu? On twelve people? Hokage-sama you'd need more charka than a Hokage, maybe three Hokages charka. No human has that much power."
Exactly thought Tsundae, no human.
She forced herself to smile.
"You can go Cho…er Ino"
"Thank you Tsunade-sama and…how…how fat do I look?"
"Oh not too bad at all dear, the stripes help a lot" Tsunade lied smoothly.
As soon as Ino had left she whirled on Shizune causing her to jump.
"Find Jiraiya, tell him what has happened and bring him here as fast as possible!"
"But he said he was going on a research trip, you know how hard it is to get him to leave."
Tsundae smiled humourlessly "Trust me it will be no trouble, His favourite student in the body of a girl? Eleven other genin in similarly exchanged bodies? Forbidden engagements? Love? Lust? A situation that seems hopeless. You'd have to beat the old Hermit away with a stick, there is enough material for a whole series here."
Ok a bit quicker this time, thanks to the reviews for motivating me to get off my ass and get some more of this story down so let this be a little Christmas Present to you all.
With a bit of luck I'll get another in before the new year.
I'd also like to ask a quick question, would you like to see the genins in their swapped forms attempt a "C" rank mission each?
And if so should they be in their original teams or modified one?