Chapter six then off to chapter seven which should be more action orientated.
I don't own Naruto, but one of my friends owns one of those cool headbands (personally I would like one with the village of sounds symbol).
Cerise made her way to the little noodle stand where Naruto sat.
"Hey, Naruto right?"
He turned around, his eyes nearly popped out and his jaw dropped.
"…uh…Cerise?" he muttered in disbelief.
"What? What is it? Naruto is something wrong. Well is there?"
Naruto just starred, Cerise soon noticed at her chest. She looked down and was in sheer shock herself.
"Uh…what the world, I've like grown…a lot. Uh…what in the world?"
The noodle chef looked at the two shaking his head at them.
"I'm like, like expanded or blown up or…or something…uh…huh? Naruto stop looking," she demanded covering her chest with her arms. Her face was a bright red.
"Sorry it's just that they weren't that big two days ago, are they real?" he asked innocently.
"Of course they're real!" she yelled knocking him in the head.
"Ow…gees, man I think you've grown taller, and I think your hips are larger to and your eyes are redder, and…," he said pointing out all the differences.
Cerise was bright red now; she couldn't believe she was letting him get away with these comments. But he did have a point, she felt taller and her pants were grabbing much tighter around her waist.
"Gees what's going on? Naruto how old would you say I look right now?"
"…Like you shot through puberty in two days and skipped over to your twenties," he joked.
Cerise shot him a serious look, but it began to worry her. The Leviathan had always made her look rather younger than what she was, that's why she could easily say she was eleven when she was more like fifteen. But now it seemed the Leviathan was losing control. Thoughts about the last few weeks shot through her mind, the strange dreams, her fight with her father's men, and of course the seals breaking and releasing her family powers.
"…uh, Naruto come with me!" she grabbed him by the arm.
"Wha…?"
"Just come with me! I need your help with something."
"But my ramen!"
"I'll buy you ten more of those if you just come with me!"
Naruto considered it, one lose of ramen for ten more he didn't have to pay for.
"All right!"
Cerise brought him to the same arena where she had just been two days ago. She needed to test her powers. Something was nagging at her about them.
"Right, Naruto I need you send a shuriken at me."
"Wha?"
"Just do it!" Cerise demanded.
Naruto sent out a shuriken much faster than what she thought. She immediately focused her charka to summon her water shield.
"Protezione di acqua!" she shouted trying to bring up water from the earth with her charka, but as the shuriken came closer nothing but steam erupted. She drew out a fin-shaped fan grabbing the shuriken in between the folds just before it reached her. She threw it to the wall were Iruka's shuriken had been thrown.
"What was that?" Naruot asked. He was expecting the same rush of water that had stopped Iruka's shuriken before.
Cerise looked down out her hands, they were burning with a strange heat, in fact her whole body seemed to be inflamed as if she had a fever.
'My other powers…water and…fi…It can't be,' she thought.
"Naruto try again, throw another one," she demanded.
He threw it at her as she focused her charka again. There was some moisture but it quickly became steam she had to move in order to avoid the shuriken.
She focused her charka to her hands hoping to bring out the water in the air through it. She focused hard putting her very being into it. But instead of summoning water she conjured a strange ball of gas. She sighed, her breath hitting the ball and igniting it. She watched in amazement as the ball swirled with different colored flames.
"Whoa, never seen that one," Naruto said in awe.
"Neither have I," Cerise stated, her eyes were wide eyed in shock and fear at the sight. The flame kissed her hand but didn't burn, the heat was tremendous but it didn't bother her. It was the same flame from a dream she had had before. It was a blue luminous flame, one that burned on forever.
"I…I don't know what's going on anymore…I can feel my powers slipping from me and I don't just don't know. I know so much but nothing about what's happening now," she sighed.
"Is it because of the demon inside you? I mean sometimes the Kyuubi takes control over me and I feel really strange," Naruto asked trying to help her.
"Well, I guess you could say that…but…he's not trying to take over in fact he helps with my curse, but I think he might be…dying…"
"Inside you?"
"…I guess so…what about you, can you feel anything with your Kyuubi?"
"Only when he's pissed," he joked.
"Hmmm…well, maybe I should head home," Cerise thought, "Maybe someone there could help…if I could find anyone…"
"Home, you mean with Mitsuki and Ikechi?"
"…uhh…well…no. I mean they finally got to go home, I know it looks like they don't really care about being home, but it means a lot to them."
"But there your teachers."
"Well…not really…it was kind of a…a bit of a scam. I mean not to say I haven't learned anything from them…it's just that…"
"You haven't learned anything from them and have probably saved their skins more than they've saved yours."
"…uh…I'm guessing you've been under similar situations?"
"No, but I've met some people like that," Naruto smiled.
"You're such a dobe," she laughed.
"…Dobe, dobe, I hate that name…" Naruto pouted.
"Don't take it seriously, sheesh," she smiled.
"Humph, I don't think I should be talking to you. I think I'll take that ten ramen now."
"Oh shut up," she smiled, "…Hey Naruto, if you do me a big favor, I'll give you enough money to buy thirty bowls of ramen."
She turned to face him only to find him right in her face with his large grin.
"What's your wish?" he grinned.
"Help me get out of here without Mitsuki and Ikechi finding out."
Naruto thought about this, thirty bowls of free ramen, lying to older ninjas, and helping out a really hot girl, oh the trouble he could rake up.
"All right."
Protezione di acqua- literally it means shield of water but we would say water shield or something along that line.