"Normal speech"
'Normal thoughts'
"Demon/Summon speech"
'Demon/Inner Sakura/Summon thoughts'
"Jutsu name"
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flashback/memory
~locations and transitions~
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Scott the Wanderer: read the authors note at the bottom for the pairing bit. Glad you like Mama Anko as I think it's sweet for her and Asa. I had actually completely forgotten that she enjoyed doing that. I'll add that to a later chapter. The thing about the T&I is that I don't know anything about its workings. A bit of dialogue from the anime said that Ibiki loves working on mind games. And with Anko's personality, she seems the type to be more hands on with her methods. I could be wrong though
Kaiser Thanatos: sorry but Fuu's pairing is already set for another rookie
Kaiser Thanatos: notes on that at the bottom author notes and yeah I really like Asa
Asgeir Skjaldberg: yeah I will fix it soon.
Voltblaze0522: :) in the anime, this is just the massive filler arc but since a lot of those were boring and unneeded, I am creating my own fillers that I hope are entertaining. And yeah your right
R reyes: I doubt Asa would join him on that. I might use it but who knows
Autobot-Wolfsketch: Naruto just got a peak at it. The mark itself will be something of a private thing with him
Bloody Rogue dragon deity king: I might make a chapter of that
Dragon Man 180: I like the soap bit but I doubt Anko would ever let Asa close to Tayuya
DragoonSensei: she might
Bringerofchaosanddestruction: The problem with hKarin and Sasuke is that in the anime Karin is just as big a fangirl as Sakura was when she was younger. I want to avoid fangirl love since it just doesn't work in my eyes. And it was irritating
Helloworld: sorry but that's a no go. Sakura and him are already paired up with someone
Guest 1: thank you or the genin suggestion since I think it came out better than I originally had it. As for the bijuu I do have a plan for it but you're just going to have to wait for it. Cause me telling would be spoilers
Firestar001: maybe
Kristinalprime23: thanks
TempestHawke: glad you like it so much
Otakumode: glad it brightened your day
Narudevilfan: pairing not set in stone yet but that would be funny
Chapter 56: An odd day for Naruto
Another morning at Naruto's compound which means that Naruto was grumpy. Naruto really enjoyed sleeping under the Sakura tree but the main issue was that the sun would hit his eyes sooner than it would in a room with curtains. "I'll destroy you one day sun. one day." he got up and went over to the bathroom to get cleaned up and take a shower. He would have used the bathhouse but it was too far away for him to groggily walk to.
He thought back to when Asa and Anko spent the night and the older woman had brought something up with him. Or at least….unintentionally.
~Flashback~
Naruto woke up when he felt the older of his two houseguests begin to wake up. He, however, chose to keep his eyes closed so he could try and get a bit more rest
Anko woke up and slowly got up from her sitting position, making sure that she didn't wake Asa. She removed the tail on top of her and stretched her limbs to get the kinks out "I am never going to sleep against a bijuu again." She looked back to see that Asa was sleeping comfortably on top of one of Naruto's tails while she held onto his center tail which she could tell since it had the black line that went from his head to the tip of that tail. She slowly made her way out of the garden and toward the direction of the kitchen. Once she made it, she began to look around to see if she could find a coffee maker or instant coffee. Fortunately, she found the former in a cupboard with all she needed. She gave a heavy sigh in relief at this "oh thank you, gaki." She set up the coffee maker and began to make herself a pot. If it were up to her, she would have had a cup of tea instead of coffee but after waking up with a sore body and a tired mind from the stress of yesterday, she needed something stronger to start the day. She leaned against the counter as she waited for it to finish. As she waited she looked around the kitchen and into the living room that was just past an open wall. She couldn't help but marvel at the massive size of Naruto's new home. She remembered when he used to live in that crappy apartment that would have been somewhat decent if it weren't for the fact that it was constantly broken into and trashed. Now the boy had his own compound, one that was probably the biggest in the village. She thought back to her own apartment and how it was too cramped for her and Asa. "I should ask the gaki how he got this place and if he could help me find a place for Asa and I. She deserves a better place than what we are living in now."
Unknown to Anko, Naruto had listened in on what she was saying with his super hearing. He thought about what she had said before looking at the little girl that was sleeping on his tail. He remembered how much fun he had with her around and the smile she had when she was on the swing. 'A better place huh…'
Once Asa had woken up, he made a clone and sent it with the little girl to get cleaned up while he went to the kitchen to talk to Anko. He walked into the kitchen and saw Anko pouring in alarge amount of sugar in her cup of coffee. So much so that he figured she might as well just put her coffee in his sugar container. He couldnt help but joke "Do you want some coffee with your sugar?"
Anko looked up from what she was doing and stopped. "Oh shush. I need to sweeten it cause coffee is way too bitter for me."
Naruto shrugged as he walked closer "Yeah, coffee is too bitter for my tastes too."
"Then why do you have a coffee maker?"
Naruto sat down a few feet away from Anko "it's just one of those things that I randomly bought. It just seemed like the thing that every house has so I got one."
Anko shook her head as she took a sip of her coffee sugar.
Naruto tried to think of a way to bring up his idea and he only came up with one way. His way. "Why don't you two move in here?" sheer bluntness
*SPIT* Anko spat out her coffee in shock at the spontaneous proposal and stared dumbly at the fox…...that was now covered in sugar coffee
Naruto was lucky enough to have his eyes closed but he could feel his fur becoming sticky already. 'I should have moved out of the way.'
"What the hell gaki!" Anko immediately covered her mouth since she didn't want Asa to hear these kinds of words, especially from her.
Naruto licked his lips and couldn't help but think 'yep, it's liquid sugar.' "don't worry. Asa-chan is right now in the bathroom getting freshened up. Anyway, I heard you say that you wanted a better place for you and Asa. so why not move in with me?"
"How did you hear me?"
Naruto pointed to his long ears "these ears aren't for show and my hearing is usually at full strength in the morning since I'm not focusing on lowering how much I can hear. And the kitchen isn't that far from the garden."
Anko sighed as she took another sip of her coffee. "I can't do that gaki."
"Why?"
"I'm not one to accept things without earning it. If I can't get it myself or do something that makes me worthy of accepting it, it just feels like I'm taking charity and I haven't reached that point in my life yet."
Naruto could understand this way of thinking. If you didn't work hard enough to gain something then you don't deserve it. The money he was able to win, he may not have worked hard for it but it was gained through legit means. The compound itself though he worked for it. He didn't ask for help; he worked on it among his clones and it was made with his blood, sweat, and tears. And there were many tears, especially with the many hammer smashed fingers. He shook off his thoughts and got back to the current discussion. "Anko-nee-chan, think of Asa-chan. If she lives here, then she would have plenty of room to play, a garden to relax in, protection from anyone else in the village until she is ready. Heck, there is room in the front courtyard for me to build a full-size playground. You won't have to worry about not having a place to stay and having a roof over your head."
Anko hated the fact that he brought Asa in this, but she couldn't deny the major upgrade from her apartment to a damn clan compound. 'Who else could say that they went from an apartment to a compound…..beside the gaki…...damn it.' "you know I hate charity…."
Naruto moved closer and placed a hand on her shoulder "it's not charity if it's a friend. It's a helping hand."
Anko grumbled at that as she heard footsteps coming into the kitchen. She looked over to see Asa walking in with a fox clone.
Asa saw Anko and ran to her before giving her a hug with her face burying into Anko's hips. "Morning….mommy." Asa mumbled that last word since for some reason she was embarrassed calling Anko her mother. But she couldn't help but see the woman like that. Ever since she started living with her, Anko has stayed with her, played with her, fed her, read stories to her, sang lullabies to her, slept with her, and drove away her nightmares so Asa could not help but think of Anko as her mother now. She just wasn't sure if Anko wanted to be her mother.
What she didn't realize was that she had already called Anko "mommy" last night and the older woman could not help but feel happy about it.
Anko knelt down, picked her up, and kissed her little girl's cheek "good morning sweetie."
Naruto smiled at the scene. Anko looked so happy at the fact that she had a chance at being a mother. For as long as he had known her, Anko had never really brought up the idea of having a family of her own. She said that it wouldn't suit her. But now here she was with a little girl calling her "mommy" and Anko accepting the role with all her heart. The moment was ruined for him when his clone walked up to him and asked
"What happened to you, boss?"
Naruto glared at his clone before dispelling it. He then began to walk away "I'm going to take a shower. We can talk more about this later."
Anko watched Naruto leave with a contemplative look. 'Should I take the gaki up on the offer? Asa does deserve to have a better place to live after all. So it makes sense.' She didn't have to think about it long when she heard
*gurgle*
Anko looked at Asa after hearing th elittle stomach rumble. Asa smiled a little embarrassingly at her "what say we eat some breakfast?"
"yeah!"
~Flashback end~
Anko thought about what was offered and weighed the pros and cons of it. It was no contest on what would be beneficial to her and her little girl, but she didn't want to just accept it without trying to find a place of her own. So she made a compromise. if she could not find a place within a month, she would take him up on the offer and both Asa and her would move in.
Naruto accepted it and told her that he would buy some furniture for their soon to be room.
Anko gave him a deadpan look at the insinuation that she wouldn't be able to find a place for them.
That was a week ago and from what he heard, Anko was having no luck. He also heard that she was fortunate enough to just get paperwork to do. Something she did at home so she could take care of Asa as well as get paid.
After he was cleaned up, he went over to his living room and slumped into his couch. It was his free day again and he didn't have any plans for it. He groaned loudly as he looked around the room until his eyes landed on his TV. "Might as well try it out." He hasn't really used his tv since he usually enjoyed his time gardening, training, hanging out with his friends or going out on missions. He grabbed the remote and turned it on before he started flipping through the channels
{The makers of Azarath and Met-}
*bzzt*
{For the Honor of gr-}
*bzzt*
{I'm going gho-}
*bzzt*
{Moon prism po-}
*bzzt*
{Iron Reaper So-}
*bzzt*
{it's time to Digi-}
*bzzt*
{I'm all fired u-}
*bzzt*
{so what's the sit-}
*bzzt*
{balance breake-}
*bzzt*
{of my contract, my ashi-}
*bzzt*
{Key that hides the po-}
*bzzt*
{Apa! Apa apa apa-}
*bzzt* Naruto turned off the Tv when he couldn't find anything to watch. Some of the things looked entertaining but it just didn't grab his attention. He tossed the remote to the other side of the couch before he got up and stretched his body. "Maybe I can train with the others." he began to leave his mansion and made his way to the compound gate. "I did promise Ino that I would help her train." as he left the main gate of the compound he noticed that there was graffiti on the wall next to the gate. He deadpanned at the writing "go away". He couldn't help but sigh as he turned around and went back into his compound "at least they aren't saying "demon" anymore. But this is getting old." once he got what he was looking for he came back to the wall and stood in front of it as he went through a small stack of seal tags he made. "No….nope…..not this one…..where the hell is it?…...ah here it is." he pulled out a tag and placed it on the graffiti before he did the tiger seal and activated it. The stack he went through were untested seals that he made to be used for everyday use. The tag he placed is meant to remove graffiti from the wall by making it revert back into a liquid and just fall off the wall. Unfortunately….. "Ah Damn it!" it worked a little too well as it also made the paint become a liquid and just ooze to the ground. "Man! Now I have to clean this up and repaint the wall…...maybe I should make a tag that does that for me." he sighed as he made a clone to clean it up. "I'll paint it later." he then began making his way towards Ino's house to see if she would like to train with him
~Yamanaka compound~
'How the hell did I get into this mess?' Naruto was sweating up a storm as he looked into one of the scariest things that he has ever had to deal with. He has faced greedy bandits, mad killers, even Bijuu. But now he was sitting in a chair and looking at the angry eyes of one Inoichi Yamanaka.
Apparently Ino had let slip that they were dating and Inoichi looked like he was about to blow a fuse.
Naruto didn't know why he was so afraid of the man but the look in his eyes just seemed to be judging him for every little thing he did. He was kind of glad that he didn't really need to breathe anymore cause the man may judge him for how he took an intake of breath.
Inoichi was actually just enjoying making the boy sweat. When he heard that Ino was dating Naruto, he wasn't really sure how to feel about it. For one thing, the boy was a regular customer at their shop and from all the interactions he has had with the boy showed that he was a good kid. A kid that was handed a bad hand in life. But from what he heard, the kid was doing well for himself. Sure he hasn't kept up with how the kid was doing ever since the day he entered the boy's mind to see what happened to him, but from how Ino constantly talks about the boy, he knew that he was doing better. On the other hand...actually, there was no other hand. He had nothing against the boy and could see how much happier Ino had become recently. Speaking of which, he figured he made the boy uncomfortable enough. He dropped his angered look and smiled at Naruto "it's ok Naruto-san. I'm just messing with you."
Naruto gave a sigh of relief as he heard this but he winced when he heard someone else
"If you were paying attention, you would have felt that he had no negative emotions."
'I couldn't help it! His look made me nervous.'
"You? A Bijuu….afraid of a Ningen?"
'Hey! Why don't you try getting that look and see how you do!?'
"..."
Naruto could feel the deadpan from his father. 'Shut up!'
Inoichi could see the far off look on the kid's face 'must be talking to the Kyuubi. Speaking of which...' "Hey, Naruto."
Naruto looked up at Inoichi with a questioning look
"Do you mind if I talk to the Kyuubi?"
Naruto fell out of his chair in shock as he never in his short life ever thought that someone would actually ask something like that. Everyone would rather stay away from Kurama but here was someone asking to meet him. "Uh….." what do you say to something like that?
Inoichi laughed at the dumbfounded look on the kid's face "yeah I figured it would sound weird but there is something I want to ask him."
"...uh"
"It's fine"
'...you sure?'
"I doubt he could do anything to me even if he wanted to."
Naruto figured that that was true so he looked at Inoichi "ok."
"Great! now hold still." Inoichi went through the hand signs for his clan jutsu
"Wait wha…..?"
"Mind transference"
~Naruto's mindscape~
Inoichi landed in a field of flowers as he entered the mindscape. He looked around and could not help but feel happy for Naruto "looks like his mental state has improved greatly."
"Did you have to come in here to talk to him?"
Inoichi turned around to see Naruto giving him a glare that he knew was more out of annoyance than anger. He chuckled at the glare "sorry but I also wanted to see how your mental state has been after the last time I was here."
Naruto grunted at this "you could have just asked."
"And if you lied about it? A Jinchuriki's mental state is a little more different from normal people. I just wanted to make sure that it wasn't still a sewer like the last time I came in here."
Naruto sighed as he just got up and began to walk a certain direction "let's go. He doesn't like to leave his napping spot."
As they began making their way to where the Kyuubi was, Inoichi couldn't help but question "you don't seem that surprised that I know about your form. Why?"
"Jiji told me about what you did when I first became a bijuu. So it makes sense that you would know about me being one."
"Makes sense but I am surprised to see that you now have six tails instead of the two I saw you have last time."
"That was years ago and I have gotten stronger since then. Tou-chan says that I might be able to become a nine-tails when I reach his level ….or if I have another mood swing. We don't really know if I will become one since I am the first of my kind. A bijuu outside of the nine."
Inoichi nodded as he saw they were approaching the largest tree in the mental forest. He figured that this was where the Kyuubi would be. He was proven correct when he saw said beast come out of the hollowed-out tree.
"We meet again Ningen."
"Hello again, Kyuubi."
Naruto chose to leave them be and left to another part of the mindscape.
Inoichi waited until Naruto was far enough away so they could talk. He looked up at the fox and couldn't help but feel so small. The last time he had seen the fox it was at least half as big as it was now but, after seeing it again it looked like it was back to its original size. He had mentally prepared himself for this but the size difference unnerved him a bit. Shaking his head he asked the question he wanted to know. "How has he been since the last time I came here?"
Kurama sighed at the question as he still felt bad for the life Naruto had to live. "it hasn't been easy. Since that day….."
~real world~
Ino had slept in and she didn't know if she should feel happy or irritated. Sure she got to have some more sleep but she felt groggy. It was her free day and she knew that if she showed that she didn't have anything to do then her parents would put her to work in the shop. She loved working at the shop but she didn't want all of her free time spent doing that. She walked downstairs thinking of what she could do for the day. She could say that she had a team meeting but if Asuma met up with her father then her parents would know that she had no meeting. As she got to the base of the stairs she walked past the living area and towards her kitchen to get something simple to eat "morning daddy, morning Naruto." she took a few more steps until she froze at the realization of the last thing she said. Quickly whipping her head back she saw that Naruto and her daddy were sitting facing each other. It took her a second before her mind connected the dots at what she was seeing. Her father had used a mind jutsu on Naruto. A tick mark began to throb on her head as she glared at her father before she stomped her way to them. She stood over her father and lifted her fist back.
"...if it weren't for your daughter and the Hyuga girl, he might not have gotten better."
"What do you mean?" the Kyuubi had just finished telling him how Naruto's life was but he could tell that there were things that were left out of the story.
Kurama did not tell Inoichi that Ino knew about Naruto's condition, everything that happened to the boy to become that way or the relation between Hinata, Ino and Naruto. He didn't see the need to bring that up since to him it didn't really matter
The last bit of Kurama's explanation had piqued Inoichi's interest since it involved his daughter.
"His mindscape should tell you everything you need to know."
Inochi thought about what he had seen in Naruto's mindscape and he finally got what the Kyuubi meant. The large field of flowers that he landed in when he entered the mindscape. The flowers there were purple lilies. The flower itself wasn't that rare but he remembered at one time that he himself had considered his daughter as pretty as a purple Lily. It was obvious that the massive size of the field showed how much Ino took in his mind. He even noticed an abundance of them scattered around them which meant that they were most likely in every corner of his mind. But something about what the Kyuubi said still nagged in his mind. "What about Hinata?"
Kurama merely looked up into the sky
Inoichi looked up to see that there was a large circular break in the treetops and he could see the representation of the moon was directly above them. It didn't fully connect until he noticed something. The moon was lavender and clear. He had met many Hyuga before and their eyes were usually white or a very light grey but Hinata had a slightly different tint to her eyes. They were lavender. In fact, the moon almost looked like….. "Both take up so much space in his mind. In fact. The forest could represent how full and abundant his mind has in it, and the fact that the flowers and the moon take up so much means that he cares immensely about them. They have had such an effect on him."
"It is why he has chosen the two to be his mates."
"...wait what!?"
*BANG*
*BANG*
Inochi found himself back in his body and on the floor with a massive headache from a welt that appeared on his head
"What do you think you're doing Daddy!?"
Inoichi slowly got back to his feet as he was holding his head in pain "ow. I was just having a talk with Naruto-san here."
"In his MIND!?"
Inoichi winced at this as he tried to come up with an excuse as to why he would enter Naruto's mind. "Um I…." Ino was always his weakness and she always seemed to make him lose his professional mind so he couldn't think of an excuse. Ino's mother is the same way
Naruto groggily opened his eyes as the jutsu was ended in a rather forceful way so he had some trouble waking up "huh wha…."
Ino in anger grabbed Naruto by the arm and pulled him out of her house before slamming the door shut.
*SLAM*
Inoichi winced at the loud sound of the shutting door. Ino rarely ever got furious but when she does, you will know it for months as she will glare at the person with such intensity and KI that you would think she was a hardened war veteran. Inoichi rubbed his head as he tried to think of what he could do to make it up to her. It wasn't until a few seconds later that he remembered the last thing that the Kyuubi said "HEY WAIT!"
"Ahem!"
Inoichi froze. He mechanically turned around to see the angery reprimanding glare of his wife. "Morning honey."
"Would you like to tell me what you have done to infuriate our daughter…...dear?"
Inoichi knew the way she said that meant that if she didn't like what he said, he would pay for it….dearly.
Ino was dragging a confused Naruto down the street as she tried to get as far away from her father. "How dare he dive into Naruto's mind. Who does he think he is to do that to my boyfriend?"
Naruto had finally gotten out of the dizziness and began to walk at Ino's pace "uh Ino….are you ok?"
"Dandy!" After a few minutes of dragging Naruto through the streets, Ino began to hear whispers coming from around them.
"Can you believe she is touching that thing?"
"Do you think that demon corrupted her?"
"...kidnapping her."
"It shouldn't be allowed anywhere near her."
" We should rescue her from that vile…"
*thunk*
Whatever the woman was about to say was halted when a kunai flew by her head, cutting a few strands of her hair.
Everyone became quiet when they looked to where it came from.
It came from a very irate Ino
"How dare that little tramp.."
*thunk*
The man stopped when a kunai flew in between his legs and left a small cut on his pants. Right where his dick was.
*whisper whisper whisper*
*thunk thunk*
*whisper whisper*
*thunk thunk thunk*
*whis-*
*thunk* *thunkthunkthunkthunkthunkthunkthunkthunkthunk*
Ino was not in a good mood and she was not going to tolerate anything against her or her boyfriend "keep it up and sooner or later my throws will start drawing blood."
Naruto nervously placed a hand on Ino's shoulder "um Ino, maybe you shouldn't threaten…." his words died in his through when Ino turned and glared at him with a look that said: "try and stop me." Naruto shrunk under her gaze and for some reason felt so small.
"You are dozens times stronger than her. You could obliterate her from the very earth, you could leave her in the dust with sheer speed, You could take a hit from her and not even flinch but she gives you a look and you become a whimpering pup…..I like her."
'What about when Inoichi did it?!'
"When he did it, it was a simple Ningen that tried to intimidate you. When she does it, it's a mate showing you her fangs. A strong-willed female who won't take shit from anyone. You got yourself a fine mate."
Naruto couldn't help but blush when his father said that Ino was his mate. 'What about Hinata-chan?'
"A wolf in sheep's clothing doesn't begin to describe that one. A rabbit is what she is but when she fights for what she loves, a lion is released. Both of your mates are strong in their own way."
Naruto's blush became nuclear as it became redder than Kurama's fur 'tou-chan!'
"Hahahahahahaha"
Naruto shook off his blush to see that Ino was glaring at another group of people that looked like they wanted to say something but were afraid of her throwing another kunai. "Um….Ino?"
Ino turned to look at Naruto and saw him flinch a bit. She chose to calm down before she said anything seh might regret. she did not want a repeat of their last fight. After a few more deep breaths she finally calmed down and asked "what is it? Actually before that, what did you need this morning?"
Naruto felt some relief when he felt her anger dying. Regaining his nerve he answered "I actually came over to see if you wanted to train with me today. I promised you that I would help you train and thought that we could start now."
Ino tried to remember that promise until she remembered when Hinata showed immense progress during the retrieval mission. "Oh right. sure, I need to blow off some steam now so we might as well."
Naruto smiled at this and gave her a quick hug. "Great let's go!"
"Where?"
"You'll see."
Both lept away leaving many people frozen in fear as many of them had several kunai just an inch away from something important to the body and one man stuck to the wall with an outline of him made from many kunai. he was too afraid to move lest he cut something...vital
Ino followed Naruto across rooftops and into a heavily forested area. She assumed they were going to one of the training grounds but she noticed that they had passed where they were. "Hey, Naruto! Where are we going?!"
"I found an area that we could use just a bit away from the training grounds. I brought Hinata there when we started training together."
Ino glared at Naruto's back "and why didn't you bring me?"
"...you never asked?" he didn't really have an excuse for why he didn't bring Ino. He just…. didn't think of it. He could feel his back heat up from her glare and hoped she wouldn't do anything to him. "Hey, I'm bringing you now aren't I?"
Ino continued to glare for a bit but relented after a few seconds
They were close by now and they dropped to ground level as they began to walk to it.
Naruto saw it up ahead and saw that they weren't the only ones there "oh hey Hinata-chan!"
Hinata was practicing her taijutsu when she heard Naruto. She dropped her stance and turned around to see Naruto and Ino walking into the training area. She bowed to them in greeting "good morning Naruto-Kun, Ino-chan."
Ino waved at her in greeting as she looked at the so-called training area. It was a moderately sized open field of flat grass. There weren't any boulders or anything that could be tripped on. There was however a small pond in the center. In fact, Hinata was standing on it as she practiced her taijutsu. "Not much, but I can see how you could train here."
Naruto nodded as he watched Hinata walk up to them. "Morning Hinata-chan. Looks like you wanted to get some training in too."
Hinata nodded "yes. I have been practicing with the bands you gave me and they have become easier to use now."
"Really? Should I make them harder to use then?"
Hinata thought about it before she came to a decision "I would like to see how much faster I have become before that. Would you please allow me to practice?"
Naruto nodded his head as he looked to Ino. "Do you mind holding up before I help you with your training? This shouldn't really take long."
Ino put her hands on her hips as she gave him a reprimanding look "you know how you said that sounded very rude to Hinata."
Hinata was the one to speak up for Naruto on this "th-that's not what he meant. What we are going to do is just test my speed on my strikes. It should only last about a few minutes."
Ino looked to Hinata to see if she was lying but could already tell that she was being sincere "alright. If it only takes that long then I can wait."
Naruto and Hinata smiled at this before they got ready.
Hinata removed the bands that were on her wrists and gently placed them on the ground
Naruto just did some stretches meant for his legs and upper body.
Both moved to stand in the middle of the pond and stood only an arm's length away.
Hinata got into her gentle fist stance while Naruto put his hands in his jacket pockets.
Ino sat down to watch and see what was about to happen. She was confused since they were far too close for a spar and Naruto wasn't even in his stance. Although when she thought about it, based on how close they were and how low his stance was, his head would end up in Hinata's breasts or stomach…..maybe lower. She blushed at that last bit before shaking her head and focusing on what they were about to do. Although she was confused about what they did next.
Hinata pushed a palm strike at Naruto's head but it was done at an extremely slow speed as if she was just showing the move to someone who has no training.
Naruto just as slowly moved his head to the side as if showing how someone should dodge the strike.
Pulling her arm back in just as slow a speed she moved her other arm forward at his torso and he shifted his body just as slow.
Ino did not know what to make of what they were doing. This just looked like a demonstration show for kids. But after a few more seconds she realized something. They were speeding up.
The two continued to do slow movements and began to speed up. Soon it became normal arms speed then it became civilian striking speed, then first-year academy sparring speed, then last year. This continued with Hinata throwing strikes and Naruto, nimbly dodging. Faster, faster, faster, and faster until the movements became a blur.
Ino was able to keep up with their movements until now. Now all she could see were the blurring of Hinata's arms and the blurring movement of Naruto's upper body. "How the hell are they this fast!?" she then noticed the bands that Hinata had taken off and reached over to pick them up. She remembered the last time she held them she could barely hold them up. When she tried to pick up one of these, she couldn't even do that. "What the hell!?" She tried to pick up one of Hinata's bands but she soon gave up even when she channeled chakra into her arm. She looked back to the still blurring pair and realized how far ahead they were.
After a few minutes of this, the two began to slow down until they came to a complete stop with Hinata breathing heavily while Naruto didn't even look winded.
Naruto patted Hinata on the shoulder "not bad Hinata-chan. Soon you will be able to get me to take off my bracers."
Although the words seemed a little demeaning, Hinata knew that he was praising her. It only made sense that he would be this fast since he hardly ever takes the bracers or grieves off.
"How much training do you guys do to be that fast?! That was like Lee when he went all out against Gaara!
Both Hinata and Naruto looked at a shocked Ino and couldn't help but laugh a bit at the awestruck face the female blonde had. Both made their way to Ino as Naruto began to speak
"Actually, we aren't that fast just yet. Well, I might be faster if I channel chakra through my body right. If I do that I might be faster than him even if he unlocks the gates like last time but I haven't fought Lee so I don't know. Hinata's strikes are the only thing that we have worked on since her version of the gentle fist style relies on flexibility. If we work on her legs like I am then she loses some of it. I mean, my style also relies on flexibility but not in the same area as Hinata-chan."
Ino was slightly confused about what he means and it was visible on her face
Naruto then moved over to Hinata and began to show Ino. "Hinata-chan's style's flexibility works more on these areas….." Naruto placed his hand on Hinata's shoulder joints, and hip joints, which made the girl blush. "While my style focuses more on my leg joints and torso flexibility. So for Hinata, we worked more on the speed of her gentle strikes."
Ino nodded as she understood his explanation until something nagged at her "what about your arms?"
"It's to keep up with my legs. Remember that I also run on all fours. If my arms don't keep up with my legs, I would trip a lot…..at least that's what Rama-tou-chan tells me and it makes sense."
Ino nodded at that explanation "so...how are you going to help me in my training?"
Naruto thought about it for a minute before looking at Hinata "Hinata-chan can you see how much chakra she has please?"
Hinata nodded and brought up her hand into a tiger seal but paused as she looked at Naruto with a pleading look
Naruto felt embarrassed at this as he forgot about this. He reached into his jacket, pulling out a seal tag and placed it on his chest before activating it
Ino again was confused about what the two did "what's the tag for?"
Naruto chose to explain "since I am a being made of chakra, I tend to be hard to ignore from Hyuga. I used to be able to hide myself from them when I was younger but after I got six tails it became impossible so when a Hyuga activates their eyes while I'm too close, it hurts them. This tag suppresses my chakra and causes me to blend into the background of the Byakugan vision."
"So it makes you invisible to them if they activate their dojutsu?"
"Yep."
Ino was astounded by this as Naruto had a way to basically make the all-seeing eye of the Byakugan useless. She wanted to ask how he got it but remembered that she was about to start her training so she chose to hold her tongue ….for now.
Hinata activated her dojutsu and focused on Ino. After a few seconds of analyzing the female blonde's chakra, she turned off the Byakugan and looked to Naruto "her levels are decent but we should work on it before we give her her own bands. We should also test her reaction speed."
Naruto nodded as he reached into his jacket and pulled out a scroll that was labeled "training". He unrolled it to show several separate storage seals. He looked through each one since they were labeled until he got to the one labeled "reaction".
Ino watched him unseal its contents which brought confusion to her again as it was several pots of what she noticed were different colored paints. "What are those for?"
Naruto pulled out many ink brushes of the same size before laying them down. "We are going to work on your reaction speed before we get to your chakra levels. These pots of paint and brushes are what we are going to use to work on that."
"How."
Naruto gained his pranking smile, which caused Ino to dread what they were about to do. "You're going to dodge."
"...huh?"
Ino felt the need to hurt Naruto.
"Come on Ino. you're getting better but you need to keep it up."
"I hate you right now Naruto."
Ino was standing on the same pond that Hinata and Naruto did their little demonstration but what the female blonde was doing was dodging clone after clone as they came at her from different directions at speeds she could barely see. Also, she was covered in paint marks.
The training in hindsight was simple. She would stand in the middle of the pond and Naruto's clones would all have a paintbrush that was dipped in different colors. They would then come at her from a random direction and as they passed her, they would mark her with the paint. Her job was to avoid it as best she could. The problem was that he was so damn fast that she could barely do anything.
Ino was now covered head to toe in different colors and she still wasn't done. She was however getting better at seeing the clones approach. She began to slowly get the hang of it and would dodge the occasional swipe from one of the clones, however, she would still find another color strip on her. Not only that but she had to maintain her focus so she wouldn't fall into the water. For thirty minutes she had been doing this and already it showed that she was lacking in many areas. Suddenly, the clones all stopped attacking and began to make their way back to the scroll that lay on the ground next to Hinata, who was an observer of the exercise. Ino was panting heavily from the constant dodging but felt some relief at the sudden stop. "what's…*pant* wrong?"
The original landed on the water next to her and handed her a towel so she could wipe off the paint on her face "nothing is wrong. We're just finished with this training for now."
Ino wiped the rainbow colors off her face before she began to wipe her arms "why? I could still keep going."
Naruto nodded as he and Ino began to walk back to the sitting Hinata since the clones had stored the paint and brushes away before dispelling themselves "true but if you are too exhausted then you will have trouble with the next training exercise."
"And what is the next training exercise. It's the one that should help on my chakra levels right?"
Hinata got up from her sitting position and nodded for Naruto. "Yes, as well as greatly improve chakra control."
"Ok. so what do I do?"
~one hour later~
Ino felt sweat dripping all over her body as she focused on the exercise. It was a fairly easy concept to get; focus chakra into a very small point and keep a constant flow of it. Unfortunately, it sounds easier than it really is. Ino's sweat fell off her face and onto the ground as she glared at the kunai her index finger was pressed against. Ino was holding herself upside down by her right index finger against the tip of a kunai blade. The handle of the kunai was jammed into the ground. This wasn't the only thing she had to deal with since her hand was tied behind her back with her ankles tied together. She had to keep herself as straight as possible. She could feel the strain on her muscles and the drain of her chakra. She looked to her left to see her companions in the same position
Hinata and Naruto were doing the same exercise but both of them didn't look tired at all. They merely had a look of determination and focus.
It was clear to Ino that they were used to this training as well especially since they both had their weights on. Ino couldn't help but wonder how long they had been doing this kind of training and decided to ask "since when …..*gulp* have you two been….doing this kind of training?"
Hinata spoke in a calm steady voice, never breaking her focus "since before the Chunin exams."
"Who showed you this kind of exercise?"
Naruto turned his head to look past Hinata at Ino "I made this up. I got the idea from when I was taught the tree walking exercise. Kakashi-sensei told us that by focusing chakra into a point in the body, it helps someone's chakra control and increase their chakra pool. When I heard this I started thinking about what would happen if the size of the focus point was smaller. I then tried this and found that it helps out a lot faster than walking up and down a tree."
Ino slowly nodded and got back to focusing on her chakra exercise.
"There you are!"
Unfortunately or fortunately depending on how she felt, Ino lost focus and collapsed to the ground due to the sudden shout from someone. She was lucky enough to avoid getting cut by the kunai as she fell. She now lay on the ground looking up to the sky and panting heavily since she had spent a massive amount of chakra in that exercise. It was a miracle that she lasted this long with the amount of chakra she overused at the beginning of it. She turned her head to see Karin walking up to them.
Karin was glaring at Naruto as she got closer "do you know how much trouble it was to actually try and find you?"
Naruto lifted his head as he was still doing the exercise and gently shook it "nope. But then again, I never tried to find me so I don't think I would know."
Karin sighed as she stood in front of the upside-down boy "Lady Tsunade was looking for you for a while and when she gave up she came to me to find you. It's my day off and I did not want to spend it following your chakra signature to this out of the way training ground."
"Oh yeah, I forgot you could do that. Wish I had the ability to sense chakra."
This gained a confused look from his fellow Uzumaki "uh you do realize that you do the same thing right?"
"I do?"
Karin facepalmed "oh for the love of…..you told me that when you use the kawarimi on someone you check to see if your chakra is able to overwhelm theirs right?"
Naruto didn't really use those words to describe how he used the Kawarimi but he figured that she was saying what he said in a simpler way since his way was just him rambling a bit. "Yeah."
"Well, what you are doing is using your natural sensor ability to track their chakra so you could use the jutsu."
"Really?"
Karin couldn't help but sigh at this "sometimes you come up with the most unorthodox and amazing jutsu or tactics but then you say or do something stupid."
"Hey, I never really thought about it! It just felt natural to me and it helped me use it."
"Fine fine."
"So how come you said it was natural?"
"Most if not all Uzumaki are sensors. Some have natural sensory abilities that other shinobi train hard to get. And some have sensor abilities with special features. Like mine."
"Cool, so what's your special ability?"
"I can basically tell how a person is based on their chakra. I can tell if the person is a good person or a bad one based on the feeling of their chakra."
"Wow. it's kinda like my negative emotion detector." Naruto lowered his feet to the ground so he could stand up straight "so what did Baa-chan want?"
"She wanted me to tell you that your monthly appointment is coming up and that you are not to ditch out on it like you did last time."
Naruto pouted as he crossed his arms "I'm fine. I don't need them to keep checking me just because I'm a bijuu now."
Hinata lowered herself as well as she moved closer to him "Naruto-Kun, they just want to make sure that you are ok."
Naruto couldn't help but grumble at this "fine. I just think that they are still overreacting about this."
Karin crossed her arms as well as she gave a reprimanding look "well just make sure that you aren't late to it." Karin began to walk away to enjoy her free day
Naruto watched his fellow-clansman walk away until something came to mind "Hey Karin-chan!"
Karin paused and looked back with a quizzical look "yeah?"
"Can you show me how to do that chain thing you can do? It's an Uzumaki thing right?"
Karin now fully turned to face Naruto "you don't know?" she couldn't understand how any Uzumaki would NOT know about the ability they were famous for besides their sealing prowess
Naruto gave her a deadpan expression as it should be obvious that he doesn't know since he didn't have anyone tell him anything about the Uzumaki
It then clicked in Karin's mind that Naruto was an orphan and since their clan was on the border of becoming extinct, it was obvious to her now that Naruto didn't have anyone to tell the boy anything about their clan "oh right… Um, sure."
Naruto's smile grew immensely before he looked at Hinata and Ino "do you girls mind if we take a break from this session?"
Hinata smiled before she nodded her head "of course Naruto-Kun. This is important to you so you should learn about it. it is part of your clan afterall."
Naruto looked at Ino who was still laying on the ground panting a bit
"Go ahead. I'll be right here when you're done." Ino was really happy for this little break since she felt that her chakra level was low. She needed to rest. In fact, she at the moment felt like her teammate.
Naruto looked to Karin and smiled "well let's begin
Karin sat cross-legged in front of Naruto who was in the same position "remember to focus your chakra into that spot. It should be natural to you since you are an Uzumaki."
Naruto closed his eyes as he tried to follow her instruction on how to activate his clan's Kekkei Genkai.
Karin had explained that the best place to release the chains was the back and torso because that is where most of the chakra flows in the body. And that was true even for him.
"Remember we Uzumaki are able to do this because our chakra is far denser than any other shinobi in the world. This is something that you can't train, which is why it is a Kekkei Genkai that is only meant for us. The density of our chakra is also why we have healing abilities and longevity."
Naruto opened his eyes and looked at Karin in confusion "what do you mean?"
"The density of our chakra helps the body's metabolism and causes our wounds to be healed faster than normal. So say you gain a wound that would take a week to heal, for an Uzumaki, it would only take about two to three days. And much like the sensor abilities I told you about, some have the extra abilities such as my ability to heal others by them sucking out my chakra."
"Would I have the same ability?"
"I doubt it. Your chakra has been changed and has hints of that demonic chakra... and I don't need to remind you what happens if someone were to absorb it."
Naruto winced at the memory of those affected by absorbing his chakra. They healed a bit before his demonic chakra began to do the reverse 'Yeah not going to test that out.' he went back to focusing
"The adamantine chains are also called sealing chains. The reason for this is also because of the density of our chakra. Since the chains are made of our chakra, when they wrap around a target, our chakra disrupts the flow of the chakra of whoever it is wrapped around. It is why the chains are extremely dangerous to others, even to the bijuu who are beings made of chakra. It is also said that it does this to the bijuu because the Uzumaki caln are related to the Senju clan, but it was never clear if that was true. It's one of the reasons we were seen as extremely dangerous along with our seals. There is a reason that it's not our most dangerous though. We were known for seals because we could make an abundance of them and they seemed limitless. Our chains however are costly to our chakra levels which is why we don't use them constantly in fights. We did have shinobi that specialized in using the chains only but they trained hard to have chakra levels high enough for it. However, if you train hard enough for it…."
*clink*
Naruto opened his eyes and gasped at the sight in front of him.
Karin could not stop the smile from forming on her face from what she saw "...and you could have a power unrivaled by any other shinobi."
Dangling in front of Naruto's face was a tiny gold chain that had a red glow and was coming from his back. It may be small and barely as thick as his finger but it was a start. Now he knew he could use them.
~1 PM~
Naruto, Ino, Hinata, and Karin were walking down a street after they had finished their morning training.
Naruto had the biggest smile on his face as he felt that he made a lot of progress today.
Hinata had a happy smile as she felt herself improving every time she trained with Naruto
Karin was looking dumbfounded by the stack of tags she was going through. Naruto had brought his "mundane task" tags with him and she was going through them trying to figure what does what. 'This one ...looks like it could be used to polish wood floors… this one looks like it's meant for dust… how the hell did he come up with one for rust!?'
It was something Naruto did during his spare time when he wasn't gardening, training, or napping. He would create seals that any lazy person would love. It was something he did when he wasn't working on his big seal project.
Ino was almost literally dragging her arms and legs. Naruto had placed seals on both her sandals and arm warmers since he didn't have any other items she could use. He hadn't made them too heavy for her so she could still move around but she was using muscles she didn't work out much and channeling a steady flow of chakra into her limbs. She knew she asked for this but a major part of her was regretting it. 'It's to help me get stronger….it's to help me get stronger….'
As the group kept walking Naruto spotted the other rookies that were heading in their direction "hey, guys!"
The other rookies spotted the four and waited for them to get closer. Once the four got closer, they noticed the disheveled look Ino had. Shikamaru was the one to ask "what happened to you?" Ino's clothes were covered in different colored paints, even her long ponytail had splotches of the paint. She didn't look injured, just extremely exhausted. He noticed that it looked like she couldn't lift her arms based on how straight they were.
Ino glared at Shikamaru as she slowly lifted her arm to point at Naruto "I asked him for some help in training and he put me through the wringer."
Shikamaru quirked an eyebrow at Naruto as he asked "what'd you do to her?" it was a little accusatory but he had never seen his teammate so tired before
Naruto brought his hands up in surrender "hey I just gave her a light work out I swear…"
"You call that light?!"
Naruto looked back to see Ino's glare and chuckled nervously "Yeah, kinda. It's what I usually do for training but instead of using paint, my clones use their claws and there's usually a lot more of them."
Lee gained stars in his eyes as he heard that his friends were hard at work training "NARUTO MY FRIEND! YOU HAVE SHOWN ME THAT I MUST TRAIN HARDER IN ORDER TO MAKE MY FLAMES OF YOUTH BURN AS BRIGHTLY AS YOURS."
Tenten sighed at the antics of her teammate while Neji only sweatdropped at it.
Karin, being the usual harsh one of the group knocked Lee on the head which got him to stop. "Your shouting is hurting my ears!"
"Sorry, Karin-chan."
"..." Ino was gawking at Naruto as what he said registered in her head. Not only was he saying that what she went through was light training but that he also did a more dangerous version of it. 'No wonder he is so strong.'
Before anything else could be said someone in the group shouted out
"NARUTO!"
Naruto looked to the other rookies and was soon face to face with an angry Choji.
"It's time we settle the score!"
Naruto immediately got what Choji was implying and he got in the Akimichi's face "think you can beat me? Well, bring it on!"
Shikamaru only shook his head at this "troublesome."
~elsewhere~
The rookies were focused on the two who stared each other down. It looked like they were about to start attacking each other any second now.
Naruto glared into Choji's eyes as the Akimichi did the same to him.
Sparks could be seen as the tension was heavy. No one did anything until someone said
"ready…...START!"
And they were off.
Everyone couldn't help but sigh as they watched the two begin to scarf down the ramen that was in front of them as if it was the first meal they had seen in years.
They were at Ichiraku ramen as Choji had challenged Naruto to a Ramen eating contest. Choji would not stand being outeaten by someone who wasn't an Akimichi. His pride as a chubby type would not stand for it.
As the two continued their match, Sakura looked to Ino "so what did he put you through to get you to not even care about your hair or outfit?"
Ino sighed as she began to tell Sakura about the training she went through in the morning.
Everyone there also listened to what they went through as they were interested in the training routine that Naruto went through.
Lee would have said something but Tenten put a strip of duct tape on his mouth as she spoke instead "I gotta say that I'm impressed with that training method. It helps you if you ever face multiple enemies at once and they attack you in sequence. His chakra control exercise also seems to be leaps and bounds ahead of the tree walking and water walking exercises. Maybe I should try it."
Ino shrugged her shoulders as best she could "go ahead. This is the first time I ever did it so I don't know the results yet."
Haku looked to Sakura as he spoke "his method is somewhat similar to how we train." he noticed that everyone else was looking at him for more clarity on what he said "I use my crystal Ice mirrors with Sakura-chan inside. She does her best to dodge my needles while I go at a somewhat slow speed. Naruto-sans method seems more beneficial though since the person is uninjured and would be able to last longer because of it." he looked back to Sakura "we may have to alter our method a bit so you may have better results in dodging."
Sakura nodded as she agreed that if she could last longer, she would be able to gain more from the training."
Neji thought about this as well "it does sound beneficial for the one training. Though I suppose with the Byakugan, Hinata-sama is able to dodge the 'attacks' in a more efficient manner."
Ino shook her head. "Before we finished our morning training session, she went through the same thing but it was faster than what he did with me and with a few more clones. What I realized as I watched was that she didn't activate her eyes."
This caught them all by surprise as they all assumed that she would use it to make the training easier
"I asked her why she didn't use them but she said to me that if she is able to dodge without using them, then it would become much easier if it was a real attack. She said she wanted to improve herself in more than just her clan's style."
Neji nodded as he understood the reasoning. 'If you can dodge something that you yourself are unable to see then you would be able to dodge it more efficiently with them. It would even allow you to come up with a counter-attack. It might even become useful in making up for the blindspot.' he then noticed something about everyone "by the way, where is ….?"
"FINISHED!/FINISHED!" both Naruto and Choji finished the last bowl they could handle and plopped their heads onto the counter
"We have a winner!" was shouted by Teuchi who counted the bowls.
Everyone could tell that Naruto had eaten a few more bowls than Choji so that would declare him the winner.
Teuchi finished counting and raised his hand in the air "and the winner is…..Hinata Hyuga!"
Every single one of the rookies finally took notice to Hinata sitting next to Naruto's right, as she gently wiped her mouth with a napkin before putting her hand together and bowing her head gently in thanks "thank you for the meal." next the her was a stack of bowls that was higher than Naruto's
Teuchi smiled as he announced "winner by thirty bowls!"
Naruto stared in disbelief 'thirty bowls!? I barely got to 26!...wow.'
'Oh boy. She's a ramen consumer. The damn kit found himself a hell of a match in those two'
Choji slowly raised his hand in the air as he groaned out "I ...will….regain….my title…..!" he then dropped his arm as he admitted defeat….for now.
The other girls, however, had another thing go through their minds
Sakura was staring at the stack of ramen bowls next to the bluenette 'how did she eat all that!?'
Ino was staring at the same stack but with a slightly different thought 'where does all that food go!?'
As if the girls all came to the same conclusion, their eyes shifted to a certain area on the girl locked on to them. A dotted line could be seen going from their eyes to Hinata's breasts.
Sakura and Ino had the same thought as they remembered seeing them when they ran into the shy Hyuga at the public bathhouse and they saw that Hinata's breast size was several times larger than both of theirs 'so that's her secret!'
Karin looked down at her won breast as she thought about this. '...maybe...'
Tenten shook her head and crossed her arms at the obvious thoughts she coud see in the eyes of the other girls 'what would be the point of making them bigger?' she then subtly moved her hand to touch one of her breasts whil making it look like she was just shifted her arms a bit '...maybe a cup size bigger wouldnt hurt...as long as they dont get int the way of training.'
For some reason, Teuchi and Ayame felt a sense of glee as they had a feeling that their profits were soon to go through the roof.
~later~
The group had spent the rest of the day enjoying their free time just being in the company of friends. But soon they began to go their separate ways while all promising that the next time they had a free day, they would all see how far they come in their training.
Now it was only Ino and Naruto and the former had chosen that she needed some new clothes with the latter being her pack-mule.
"Ino don't you think you have enough?"
"Nope and you are going to keep carrying them since you actually have the strength to do so."
Naruto was carrying boxes and bags in his arms as Ino had gone on another shopping spree. He didn't really mind doing this since he knew that Ino was still tired from the training they did and it wasn't the first time that he was forced to do this. "Where are you going to put all this stuff anyway? Your closet should be full at this point with all the shopping you do."
"It's all going into my room so there isn't any problem with it. Either way, we're done for the day."
Naruto looked up at the stack he was carrying "well at least it's not as much as last time." he began to follow Ino as she led the way. As the two continued to walk to their destination, Naruto began to notice something. "Hey Ino, where are we going? This isn't the way to your house."
Ino kept walking without looking at Naruto but the emotion she had was something she couldn't hide from him
Naruto could feel the anger and annoyance coming from her and felt the need to find out what was wrong with her "Ino…. is something
"I just don't want to go home today…."
The sharp tone she had, told him that he shouldn't pry too much. He did however feel the need to make her feel better but at the moment the only thing he could do was carry her stuff. Something did however nag at his mind 'how is she going to take this stuff to her room if we are going to my place?'
After a bit of walking, they arrived at Naruto's compound but by then the sun had long since gone down and the nightlife had started. Both entered the mansion and Naruto was about to put the stuff down in the living room since it was the closest to the entrance but he paused when Ino spoke.
"Come on, Let's drop the stuff off."
Naruto turned his body to see Ino walk off towards the guestrooms. 'Don't tell me….' Once they arrived at the hallway that had the guest rooms, he got his answer when Ino took the first room on the left.
She stood in the center of the room as she turned to the door to see Naruto walking in "I'm claiming this room as mine."
Naruto couldn't help but sigh at her antics "of course you are. I should have figured out what you meant when you said you were going to drop off this stuff in your room and we were heading here." he moved to put the stuff down next to the futon and turned to her "well I kinda figured that some of you guys would at some point claim a room for yourself but I didn't think it would be this soon."
Ino waved her hand as she went to her newly bought stuff and slowly began to look through it. "Oh, I don't plan on moving in," 'at least not yet.' she added that thought to her statement as she did plan on moving in with Naruto at some point in the future "This is just going to be my home away from home. I can also put some of my extra outfits here if the closet at home gets too crowded." before long she looked to Naruto "do you mind if I take off my arm warmers and sandals, please. I know it's for training but I really want to relax for now."
Naruto nodded "sure. You only wear them as long as you can handle them. When you get used to them that you no longer look like your limbs are made of lead, do we increase the weight and restrictive movement."
"Oh thank kami!" she slowly removed her arm warmers first before taking off her sandals. Once that was done she plopped to the ground and relaxed "ah that's so much better."
Naruto chuckled at Ino, who was rubbing her feet to try and remove the discomfort they had "alright, well make yourself at home. I'm going to get cleaned up."
Ino watched Naruto leave her newly claimed room before she looked around and noticed that it was bigger than her room. "Needs a little work but I can make it mine." She felt that she could forgive Naruto a bit for letting her claim the room but she still needed to have some payback. It was then she got an idea. An awful idea. The Yamanaka got a wonderful…. awful….. Idea. "that could work!" She moved to one of her shopping bags before looking for what she needed.
~Compound bathhouse~
Naruto was scrubbing himself clean as he sat at one of the washing areas. "Maybe I should have gone easier on Ino during our training session. She looked like she was about to collapse as we walked through the streets. I gotta think of a way to make it up to her." he put in his special shampoo into his hair as he began to wash it. As he closed his eyes to avoid getting shampoo in them he heard something he never expected to hear. He heard the sliding door open up.
"Wow this place is huge."
"INO!" he was really glad that he had his eyes closed as he wasn't sure if she came in knowing he was here, which meant that she could very well be naked.
"Hey, Naruto. I thought I would join you in here if that's alright with you."
Naruto now knew for certain that Ino was naked and he shut his eyes even harder. "Ino!...I'm...uh ….n-n-n-not decent right now." he squeaked out that last bit as for some reason he was finding it hard to speak with the thought of Ino being naked. He could hear her footsteps coming closer as he grabbed the towel that was on his lap and wrapped it around to at least hide his manhood.
Ino came up from behind Naruto and smiled at the way he was trying to hide his member and not look at her. she knelt down behind him and placed her hands on his back "come on Naruto…" she then leaned in close to his ear and whispered gently "let me wash your back~"
*squeak* "Naruto just couldn't find his voice at the moment and he could help but squeak when he felt her feather touches on his back. His face was red now as he tried to say something, anything, to the girl right behind him. He stiffened when he felt her slowly run her fingers up and down his back. After she ran her hand along his back for several seconds, he felt her begin to use a wash rag to scrub it. He kept his eyes closed for the life of him as he couldn't find the words to tell her that he was fine washing himself.
Ino could see the effect she had on the boy and could not help but feel proud at being able to render the strongest of the genin speechless. 'and he hasn't even looked at me yet.' she lifted his right arm and began to scrub that clean as well.
After Naruto calmed down….a tad, he began to enjoy what she was doing. For some reason having her do this for him felt….nice. But it became panic again when he felt her hands, along with the rag slide up his back, over his shoulders, and began to gently caress his chest. He could feel her breasts pressed against his back as she leaned her head on his right shoulder and rubbed her cheek with his. Not only did she rub her cheek on his weak spot but the sensation of her rubbing his chest was driving him crazy
"Kimochīi? Ai"
That did it for him and he promptly fainted in her arms.
Ino could not help but laugh at the now unconscious boy in her arms "aw and he didn't even get to see my new swimsuit." and she was indeed wearing a two-piece swimsuit that was in her favorite color but with a white flower on her left breast. "Good to know that he respects women enough to keep his eyes closed and not perv out on them." her smile became a little mischievous "oh I'm going to have fun with this." she placed a kiss on his cheek as she said "you're too easy to get back Naruto…..at least for me anyway. I should tell Hinata this. She might try it too." she picked up the unconscious boy and began to make her way back to the main house. It might be cold out but she was in too good a mood to care about it.
~Later~
Naruto was woken up from his sleep by someone tapping on his window. He cracked open his eye to see who it was at his window only to see that it was he Anbu Neko. Neko was the only Anbu that had access to his compound as he had encountered her before and she had been one of the ones to help him when he was younger. He got up and went to his window before opening it to hear what she needed from him.
"Sorry to wake you at this hour but the Hokage needs to speak with you."
Naruto woke up fully as he nodded and got ready to follow her to the Hokage tower but stopped when she brought up a hand.
"Perhaps you should get dressed first."
Naruto looked down to see that he wasn't wearing any clothes. He only had a towel wrapped around his waist. 'What the…..?...Ino! That wasn't a dream!' he shook off the ever-rising blush before he went back inside and got dressed in just his black shirt, pants, and sash. He didn't put on sandals since it didn't really matter and he moved better without them. He tried to be as quiet as possible as to not wake Ino up since he figured she needed her sleep.
Neko waited for him to get dressed outside and when she saw him jump out the window, she placed her hand on his shoulder and they shunsined away
~hokage tower~
Naruto arrived at the tower with Neko at his side and looked to the two that were already there. Tsunade was a given but he was a little surprised to see Jiraiya since he thought that the man would still be out gathering intel or peeping on women. Either or. "What's up Erro-sennin?"
Jiraiya would have reprimanded the young blonde but the news he had was serious "it's about the Akatsuki."
Naruto now knew what this was a very serious matter
~Unknown Orochimaru base~
Sasuke finished his training with the Sanin and was panting heavily. Sharingan blazing, he gritted his teeth as he powered up one more Chidori and charged at the dummy in front of him. After that was finished, his eyes reverted back to their onyx black
"Well done Sasuke, but don't overdo it. If you become too tired to move than it will take longer to recover for the next day's training."
Sasuke took a deep breath and relaxed as best he could before speaking to the snake Sannin "tell me….what are the Akatsuki after and who is in it?" he may have talked to his brother who told him why he joined the group but he wasn't told about what they were after or who was in it apart from the leader being another Uchiha that called himself Madara. Not that he knew who that was.
Orochimaru was surprised to hear this question but saw no harm in answering "well the Akatsuki are a group of S-rank shinobi that came from every village in the elemental nations. Including your brother…"
Sasuke clenched his fist which the Sannin thought was from hatred towards said brother but it was for a different reason 'don't you dare speak about him! You don't have the right!' Sasuke kept his thoughts to himself as he still needed to play his part
"As for what they are after. They are after the nine bijuu that have been sealed into certain individuals. One of which is your old teammate Naruto."
Sasuke's eyes became wide as he heard this and he began to think about what he just learned. 'Is that why he was so strong?...no. I don't remember seeing anything that showed he was using some special power during our fight. maybe …..that fight in the Chunin exam prelims. His chakra seemed to heal that guy before he began to scream in pain and from what I remember, Naruto was trying to stop him from doing it….like he knew that would happen. It's like he doesn't want to use that power and just rely on his own.' he then realized something 'the Akatsuki is after him. That's why Itachi was after Naruto! ….this just got a lot more complicated.' he gritted his teeth as he activated his Sharingan again and did another Chidori
Orochimaru licked his lips as he saw the progress Sasuke was showing
Kabuto was standing behind Orochimaru as he watched the Uchiha as well. One thing that was notable was that some of his rotting flesh had healed ever so slightly. He was fortunate enough to have incredible self-healing capabilities otherwise he would have been a corpse at the moment. But his healing ability was working overtime to keep him alive and in one piece. 'I might need another way to heal myself if I want to be of use to Orochimaru-sama
~Omake 1~
Anko was going over some documents that were given to her by one of her colleagues earlier in the day. She was thankful that she was able to work at home so she didn't leave Asa alone or just bug Naruto every time she went out. She yawned, as not only was doing paperwork boring it was really late in the night. She looked at the clock to see that it was 2 AM in the morning. 'Damn. I should finish this up so I can get some sleep.' she movie to another document and was about to read it when she heard
"...Anko…..?"
Anko looked up in shock to see Asa standing a few feet away holding on to her little stuffed fox that Naruto gave her. It was a tiny little plush fox that looked just like him. Fur pattern and the six tails. Anko got up immediately and walked over to Asa before kneeling down "Asa, you know you should be in bed right now. Did you have a nightmare?"
Asa shook her head as she hugged the chibi fox tighter,
Anko checked Asa over to see if there was a tell on what was wrong "well what is it? Do you need to go to the bathroom or do you need something to drink?"Anko then stood up "come on let's get you something to drink so you can go back to bed." as Anko took a step forward she felt a tug on her pant leg. She looked down to see Asa holding on to her. She turned around and knelt back down to the little girl "Asa tell me what's wrong? It's ok to tell me."
Asa felt really scared at what she wanted to say. What if she said no? She was afraid of what might happen but she wanted to ask. She looked down at the button eyes of her plushie and felt a little braver. She slowly lifted her head to look at the worried eyes of Anko. she gulped a bit and tightened her grip on Anko's pant leg and the plushie as she spoke in a timid voice "Anko?"
"Yes?"
"Can I …..*whimper*...can I call you mommy?"
Anko was a little stunned at the question but she could see the fear of rejection in the little girl's eyes. To Anko, the answer was obvious. She smiled as she sat down and picked the girl up before placing her on her lap. She held the girl in a gentle hug "is that what you were worried about?"
Asa hugged onto Anko's shirt as she buried her face in the woman's breasts
Anko began to rock the girl in her arms as she spoke "Oh sweetie, I would love it if you called me that. In fact, I'm happy that you see me as your mother."
Asa pulled back and looked up at the woman with tears in her eyes
Anko smiled at her daughter as she wiped the tears away before placing a gentle kiss on her forehead "as long as you want I can be your mommy."
Asa was happy. She had the biggest smile on her face as she hugged Anko "mommy! Mommy! Mommy!"
Anko smiled as she hugged her daughter tight "it's ok sweetie, mommy's here." she held onto the crying girl as a few happy tears fell from her face as well. They stayed like that for a few minutes before Anko got up with the little girl still in her arms "now let's get you to bed. You need your sleep." she looked back to the papers on the coffee table before shrugging 'I can finish it up tomorrow.' she then made her way to her bedroom so the two could get some sleep
~Omake 2~
Ino and Hinata were walking through Naruto's compound trying to find the blonde as they were in a rush and needed his help
"Naruto!"
"Naruto-Kun!"
"In here!"
Ino and Hinata went to where they heard the voice and found themselves in a large room that had what looked like empty scrolls and ink bottles. This was the Seals room, a room that Naruto used to practice or make seals. The room itself was reinforced with solid concrete behind the wooden walls in case one of his seals accidentally exploded.
They saw Naruto standing in the center with a massive unrolled scroll in front of him. He looked to be concentrating on the seal that was written on it. The two females walked closer to him and looked at what he was looking at. It was a circle of writing with a smaller simple line circle inside and six lines of writing that connected the two circles, three lines on the lower section, and three at the top.
Hinata asked the boy "Naruto-Kun, what is that?"
Naruto knelt down and grabbed a brush that was laying off the paper and dipped it into the ink bottle next to it. "It's something that I have been working on for a while now. But forget that, did you girls need something?"
Ino nodded. "Yeah Team 8 and 10 are going on a joint mission and we were hoping you had a couple storage scrolls we could use for it."
Naruto nodded as he pointed to his right "sure. There are some storage scrolls of different sizes on the shelves over there."
Ino and Hinata nodded as they moved over to the wall of scrolls. On the lowest shelf were the storage scrolls varying from the size of a hand, normal size, and summon contract sizes for larger loads. Hinata and Ino grabbed a normal size scroll and one of the larger scrolls as they were going to store all of their supplies and deliveries in it and the smaller scroll is to hold the larger one.
Once they were sure they had the ones they needed they moved back to Naruto who was slowly writing on the seal he was working on.
"Ok, now to test it."
The girls got close to Naruto as Ino put the large scroll down and leaned on it as she asked "ok Naruto what exactly is that seal?"
Naruto looked up at Ino and in an honest voice said "I don't know."
Both girls tilted their heads as Hinata repeated "you don't know?"
Ino continued "how can you not know?"
Naruto put the brush down as he looked it over "well Ero-sennin showed this seal to me a while ago and told me that it was part of a jutsu that was unrivaled by any other jutsu."
"Then how can you not know what it is?"
Naruto sighed as he spoke "because when he told me that, he spotted a woman a bit away and ran after her, with the paper that had the drawing of the seal on it. He didn't come back until the end of the day and when he did he told me that he used the paper to wipe his face of the drink that was thrown into his face. The writing was all smudged and unreadable. He just gave me a sheepish smile and said 'oops'. He then told me that even if I saw it completely, it was an incomplete drawing of the original seal."
Ino put her hands on her hips as she couldn't believe what she heard "so he shows you an incomplete seal for an amazing jutsu that he shows for a second before going after some woman and comes back with it ruined?"
"Yep."
"Oh sweet kami."
Naruto brought his finger up "I actually was able to get a good view of it and I have been trying to recreate it as best I could. This is actually the first time I finished it and I'm about to test it to see what it does."
Hinata felt worried about this "Naruto-Kun, are you sure you should be testing it if you don't know what might happen?"
Naruto pointed to the larger circle of script "from what I can see this part here looks like it's part of a summoning circle. So I'm guessing that it might be a summoning of sorts. If I get it wrong that nothing should really happen and if something does happen than the worst would be that it blows up in my face."
Ino shook her head "that doesn't really instill confidence Naruto. Are you sure you want to do this."
"Well like I said, I'm going to test it out to see if I got it right."
Hinata looked to Ino with worry in her eyes "maybe we should stay to make sure that nothing bad happens."
Ino sighed as she looked to a clock on the wall "well we don't need to meet with the others for another hour so we can stay here to make sure he doesn't do anything to get hurt."
Both girls chose to stand right behind Naruto as he prepared to activate the seal
Naruto channeled chakra into his hand and took a deep breath
"I've got a bad feeling about this kit. Be careful."
'Got it Tou-chan.' Naruto lifted his hand and slammed it in the middle of the seal as if he was summoning something.
All three watched as the seal began to brighten in a brilliant blue light. What they didn't expect was the light becoming even brighter. In fact, it became so bright that they used their hands to cover their eyes.
"NARUTO! WHAT'S GOING ON!?"
"I DON'T KNOW!"
"NARUTO-KUN!"
The light became so bright that it was impossible to keep their eyes open. This kept going until
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
The light died down to show that the three were no longer in the room. In fact, there was no trace of them anywhere in the compound
A bright light flashed brightly as the three fell onto the ground in a heap, right on top of the large unrolled scroll
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!"
Ino looked up to see a familiar-looking ceiling "are we back?"
Hinata looked around the room as she said "I think we are."
Naruto lifted his head and smiled "finally! We're back." he looked at his hand and resumed speaking in an excited tone "and we're back to normal!" he then noticed something directly in front of him and immediately turned red. "...and we're naked."
Ino turned her head to the left at what Naruto said and came face to face with what made him male. She went just as red as Naruto but turned her head the other way when she heard and
"EEP!"
Ino saw that Hinata's face was just as red as hers
Hinata blushed because she could feel Naruto's hot breath on her lower lips.
"WHAT'S GOING ON HERE!?"
The three looked to the door of the room to see the rest of Team 8 and 10 along with their sensei's standing theri with surprised looks on their face.
Choji and Shikamaru were blushing while also looking away. Shino was looking upward, but with his ears red, showing that he too was blushing. Kiba had a nosebleed as he stared at the sight in front of him with Akamaru trying to cover his partner's eyes with his paws.
Asuma was standing there looking like he was trying to figure out how they got into this position while Kranai had a look that said "someone is going to die"
Tapping her foot, Kurenai spoke with much anger in her voice "explain NOW!"
Ino being the first to regain her voice asked "w-what are you guys doing here?"
Shikamaru, still not looking, spoke "we had a mission that we were supposed to start about an hour and a half ago. But when you and Hinata didn't show up we came looking for you."
Ino and Hinata gained looks of realization as Ino spoke in a hushed voice "so that's what we were doing before we left."
Hinata whispered back "how long have we been away?"
Naruto answered in his own whisper "too long apparently."
Kurenai did not like the fact that they were whispering to each other and shouted "I SAID EXPLAIN!"
Naruto looked to Hinata and Ino and whispered "we don't tell anyone what we went through, understand?"
Both girls nodded as they tried to think of an excuse to use to get out of the new situation they were in.
End of chapter
First thing I want to bring up is the Omake. I made Omake 2 for one reason. I made it in case I ever want to make a crossover with another anime, I could use this as a way of having it be my Naruto instead of canon Naruto. I also decided that if I do make one I'll have Ino and Hinata along for the ride. It's actually exciting to think about really. If you guys like the idea let me know. also if you have an idea on what crossover the three should end up in then let me know. I might do it. Ps it can be considered separate from the main story since this will not be brought up in later chapters
The Tv bit was done with several different crossover tags that I found entertaining
Well, Naruto now has something new to train with. Yep, he has the adamantine chains now. Hope you guys were ok with how I explained them cause I am not entirely sure if that is how they actually work
Ino has now started to take her training to the next level and is now part of Naruto's training group.
Hinata has made her debut as the queen of gluttony. I may not have watched the Boruto show at all but I do get recommendations on Youtube and saw that. I had to add it as I thought it was funny. It also gave me the chance to put in that bit with Ino and Sakura "figuring out" the secret to Hinata's chest. Throwing them a bone as it were
I figured that in the three-way relationship of Naruto, Ino, and Hinata, Ino would be the more forward about it. The wild one as it were but not too wild. I just felt like giving her that scene since Hinata would not be able to do it
Ok guys I have gotten several new suggestions for who Sasuke ends up with. We have Guren, Tamaki, Karin, and Kurotsuchi. Those have been shot out along with Mei. if you guys have any more suggestions then put them in your review. I will say this though Samui, Temari, and Fuu I already have a pairing for. Fuu being an earlier suggestion by another reviewer
Now an Idea came to me when one of you suggested Kakashi with mei. Now here's the thing, Kakashi I just can't picture with anyone, it just doesn't seem to work in my head but this gave me the idea of why not giving Mei to Iruka. She is always looking for a good man and Iruka is a good guy so I figured that if Mei does not end up with Sasuke, I could make her end up with Iruka.
As for Anko, I kinda like the idea of her remaining single and raising Asa as a single mother. I feel the bond between the two would be more precious if it was that way. But who knows, I might change it
Ok this next bit is for those who think that my version of Naruto is just as "weak" as canon Naruto. if you dont really care than you can skip it
Comparison:
Canon Naruto:
Shadow clones
Rasengan
Simple three academy jutsu
Messy to decent chakra control
Vs Neji -victory because of Kurama
Vs Gaara- Gamabunta was the main factor
Vs Sasuke- lose while using one tail cloak
My version of Naruto:
No hand signs: Shadow clones
Single hand Rasengan: both normal and demonic
Mastery beyond normal use Academy jutsu. Kawarimi mostly
Elemental manipulation jutsu, no handsigns.
Elements known: fire, wind, Water
Adept, intermediate, immensely proficient chakra control.
Water gliding- self made -next level water walking
Seal user
Vs Neji - dominated the entire fight and the only reason he got injured was because the Rotation is a rebound defense. It's like trying to attack Mirror force, and he broke through it. No kyuubi use
Vs Gaara - won using his own demons power NOT Kurama's
Vs Sasuke- dominated the fight and won, only to be blindsided by Kabuto. (I mean if Goku can get taken down by a laser gun when his defense was down in resurrection F, this should not be so unbelievable.)
Chakra chains
Also I would have given Naruto the bijuu dama but he would never have a chance to use it. In all the fights in the first Naruto series, all his fights are close to his friends. If I gave it to him and he used it, he would have killed everyone of his allies.
My Naruto has a different problem than canon Naruto. My Naruto has to show restraint so as to not kill anyone. He is able to kill but that doesn't mean he wants to.
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