Chapter 3

Naruto Uzumaki… 'What have I done today?' That single question resounded in his head for the duration and did nothing to alleviate the boredom that he felt coming up. And if you know Naruto then you know what happens when boredom is up and running…

PRANKS!

Grinning the visualization was already up and running and all inhibitions left safely locked up and not available to dilute the sheer prankness off his pranking ambitions! That was what he had told himself on that day so many years ago back in Hokkaido Konohagakure! (He merged with the persona of one Ryouga Hibiki making him a somewhat fractured person.)

Kasumi wasn't making anymore cookies she had left the cookies on the staircase leading down to where Naruto was at. Hearing him chuckle goodnaturedly she misstook the intent hidden beneath it and left to take a comfortable bath and a 'training session'.

She was infact heading for the furo when she was interrupted by the telltale knocking on the door…

"Hello miss?" Kasumi was responding to the somewhat shorter exotic looking girl that was standing on the porch all wet and indecent. 'Hmm… She looks a bit like Amy down in the dark red quadrant. A selflifting frame! She's got to be more agile than even an olympic class gymnast in bed!' Keeping the statistically induced smile hidden she peered somewhat differently at the pretty thing…

"Uh… Is this the Tendo dojo?" Genma Satome had infact already recognized the dojo for what it was but knowing his esteemed friends bad luck with the remnants of their travels he had to make sure. "Are you Kasumi Tendo?"

Not knowing what could lie beneath this sudden knowledge being put forth she tried for the most positive approach. "Well, yes! Are you here for Amy's behalf? I've got all her S&M gear in the basement though… I can't bother our only non-familial tenant at this hour I am sorry to say, but I can borrow you my gear for an indefinite amount of time!"

Genma Saotome was quite comfortable with perverted women but he still felt a wash of perversion greater than she could tolerate at the moment. 'I am a WOMAN AND DAMN STRAIGTH TOO!' Paling noticably she came across the notion that she was somewhat a man aswell… "Uhh… We aren't here on behalf on any Amy. My name is Genma Saotome and I am a training friend of one Tendo Soun. If he still lives here I'd like to talk to him. Otherwise I'd leave…" Looking suitably formal from what meager experience Genma had of performing in formal events as a female she cowered a bit without loosing what she thought of as female grace? (Let's just say that the curse does things to you… Genma Saotome has been using the curse to earn cash in the mainland China in ways that makes it so that you must adapt.)

A bit surprised and just a bit miffed as well at the sudden prospect of 'education' being lost to her Kasumi Tendo looked suitable dejected and adjusted her stance aswell. "I'm sorry for the inappropriate assumptions made on your behalf. Please step in and make yourself at home. I'll get father to converse with you in a moment." Opening the door letting the guests in she bowed and bid adieu to look for her father… (And perhaps some soul-searching?)

Kasumi had never managed to embarrass herself to the degree that occurred at that moment ever before. She had her task set out for her. Scribbling down a message on a piece of paper she slid it under the door to Nabiki. 'She'll know what to do to the guests!' Smiling a weaker than normal smile she sprinted of to her room and bolted it shut and safe for intruders.

In one motion all the energy that flowed through one Kasumi left her and she fell to her bed exhausted and dead to the world. 'What is going on?' That one thought flashed by her face as the pictures of a silverheaded Vixxen was eating her out on the kitchen table with Mr Panda watching from the sides waving encouragement flags…

(She fell asleep and instantly started dreaming.)

Naruto was piecing together the fragments off his no longer solid mind. Meditating. Somehow it was easier than ever before. Frowning to shake off the unwanted speculation he kept on digging deeper…

"WOOAH! What is this place?" Naruto found himself in his mindscape… Lets say that the sewers looked different than what he had expected!

Gone was the everflowing dank and cold water. It was warmer by a hair and there was a wind there as well. This revelations did little to ease the tension that made one Naruto Hibiki what he was… 'Damn am I mixing things again?' Shaking his head at the stupidness that still followed him he thought back to the Genius moments that defined him. (He was gloating over being the best…)

Having walked around partially flexing and occasionally singing songs praising his bravery and achievements of awesomeness and how he would beat Tsunade to the ground in their next spar and so on and on. He finally stumbled upon something that would make even the ego of one Uzumaki grind to a halt…

"WHERE'S PLUSHY-SAMA!" Lets say that the maturing moments never let their hands onto the vocabulary of one self proclaimed Hokage to be…

There was a hole letting the last remaining vestiges of water flow through them at the end off the cage on its far wall. Naruto eyed the cage that was missing its defining content. There was a note left on the cage bars. A rather big note…

I THE GREATEST OF YOUKAI'S THE GREAT KYUUBI-SAMA NINETAILED RULER OF ALL DEMONS AND STRONGEST BEING IN THE ETERNAL NIGHT OF ALL THAT LIES BEYOND THE AMBITIONS OF LESSER BEINGS BLAH BLAH BLAH!

(His title that he wrote down was the size of his own ego and kept growing in size as Naruto was rifling through it looking for the last sentence.)

Some fiftythree minutes later…

"FINALLY!" Naruto had reached the last bit off the naming part of the paper note.

HAVE MADE A SOUL MATRIX THAT CONTAINS NOTHING OF MYSELF AND THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE. A SYNTHETIC SOUL WORTHY OF NOTHING YET MORE THAN ANY OTHER FLESHBAG ON THE FACE OF THE MORTAL EARTH.

MAY YOU DIE A GRUESOME DEATH…

"Oh so you do love me!" Naruto really is that starved for affection…

Hugging himself and looking like all was good with the world Naruto fell out of the meditative state looking no worse for the wear. Finished with congratulating himself on making the great Kyuubi-otosan happier and prouder he went about redecorating.

"S&M kit?" He never figured out what those were for though…

Genma once more male and in the living room with one Soun Tendo for the last hour or so was rudely interrupted with the advent of one Ranma Saotome also male for the occasion.

"And this is how the curse operates!" Let's say that the few times that Ranma Saotome manages to outsmart his devious father was today…

SPLASH!

Looking at her male son she refrained from lashing out as one Akane Tendo entered the room. "Dad are these the people that we are supposed to meet?"

The remaining Tendo's finally alerted to the presence of the tomboy martial artist of the house set about looking at her in a manner that to anyone more schooled in the social arts than Ranma Saotome would have found obvious… Akane missed it!

"So you wanna spar!" More in a conspiratory no saying anything other than yes tune she swiftly dragged the silverhaired beauty towards the dojo for a sweaty workout…