"Normal speech"

'Normal thoughts'

"Demon/Summon speech"

'Demon/Inner Sakura/Summon thoughts'

"Jutsu name"

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flashback/memory

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Reviews Corner

Knight'sShade: yeah it was. Fixed the error and glad you like the omake. Kinda worried that I didn't do it tastefully

Bloody Rogue dragon deity king: had a tough time coming up with a challenge but I hope the idea was good. Also Kurama would be sleeping like he normally does, if you are referring to Naruto, he only has six tails right now.

Scott the Wanderer: interesting pairing I'll think about it. Also thanks for the idea for Tayuya. I like it.

Otakumode: ecchi! Go sit in your corner and think about what you thought...which sounds redundant. Glad you liked it though.

Innovaquantum: imagine what happened in the scene :). There are a few suggestions forItachi but one caught my eye the most so you're going to have to wait for that. Sasuke is still in the air for who he is paired with but I don't think it would be Karin.

12Ookami12: glad you thought it was more organic compared to others many others thought it was just out of nowhere but it might just be a matter of perspective. Kurama wasn't really being pervy, he just didn't think he needed to say anything about it since it is something that Naruto has to learn. Also, I believe I already responded to your poll question

ZyiareHellsing: glad you liked it since I wasn't sure if people would

Starfire99: I think I subconsciously drew inspiration from that scene. Love that fic by the way and hate that it stopped. One of my favorites.

Ocomhdhain1: Izumi is impossible since she is dead, Konon is an unknown since she is more attached to Pein and Kisame is just no.

Guardian of the Inheritance: keeping it up

Absolom Hellgate: I don't get the joke

SonicBlast4444: why konan? For Sasuke, Karin doubtful but could be, not sure. Fu is already planned for someone else. Glad you liked the songs, took me a while to find some that worked for the mood I wanted

JessicaFridge: glad you love it so much

Chapter 61: the challenge

~Saturday afternoon~

Tsunade stood at the top of the Hokage tower gazing at the crowd that stood below. She had sent out a message to all of her shinobi forces, sans the ones guarding the wall, that they were to gather here so they could hear what she had to say to them. Many citizens have also gathered as they noticed the shinobi forces gathered and wanted to know what it was that their Hokage wanted to say

Shizune stood behind the blonde woman as she nervously asked "Lady Tsunade, are you sure this is wise? This could very well cause problems for both parties."

Tsunade looked over her shoulder with a wide shit-eating grin "either way, I win in this little challenge." looking back to her forces she channeled chakra into her voice so that they could all hear her "I thank you all for coming! I have called you here so that we may all participate in a training exercise!"

This caused them to all look at each other in confusion and began chatting

A random kunoichi shouted out something that came to their minds "Lady Hokage, why are we doing this training exercise!?"

Tsunade looked at the woman before addressing the crowd "this was something that my predecessor Hiruzen had considered doing as it was brought to his attention that some among our ranks have become lenient in their training and have been doing the bare minimum to maintain their rank! This exercise is to see if you should remain within our ranks or be removed until proven strong enough to meet certain standards! Although he had never executed it, I feel that now we should see where we stack up in terms of skill, especially as we have come out of an invasion from an enemy village as well as an allied one."

Many of the shinobi began to see the value of such an exercise. Some of them felt a bit nervous as they themselves knew that they were getting very lax in their training. A few of them were excited for the challenge…..one in particular

"What a youthful idea! What is this youthful challenge our youthful Hokage!"

Tsunade felt both flattered and annoyed about that "youthful" comment for several different reasons. One of which was the fact that she, begrudgingly, had to admit that she wasn't in her "youth" anymore. Though the fact that she was called that made her feel much better. Sure, she was taking it out of the context that was used, but she didn't really care, she was youthful, in her own vain way. She waited a few seconds before she continued "starting Monday till the end of Friday, from 5 AM to 10 PM, a stealth specialist will be sent out into the village, with the task of obtaining something of value from each of you. That means for the next five days you are to be on full alert at those times. The longer you last the better your chances are in staying within our forces. For those who are not able to keep your item of value will be evaluated before considered if you stay in our forces or you are to go through intense training to re-enter them!" seeing that more of them were getting more nervous, she slammed her fist into the railing "ARE YOU NOT SHINOBI OF KONOHA!? DO YOU COWER WHEN YOU KNOW THE ENEMY IS COMING TO TAKE SOMETHING FROM YOU?! IF YOU ARE PROUD SOLDIERS OF OUR VILLAGE TO RISE UP TO THE CHALLENGE AND PROTECT WHAT YOU CARE ABOUT. IF YOU CAN'T PROTECT A MEASLY ITEM THAN HOW DO YOU EXPECT TO PROTECT OUR HOME FROM THE ENEMY BEYOND THOSE WALLS!" she gestured to the walls of Konoha to empathize her point "ARE YOU SHINOBI?!"

"Yeah!"

"THAN PROVE IT BY RISING TO THE CHALLENGE!"

"YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" the shinobi cheered out as they all were now psyched about the challenge now

Tsunade waited for the cheer to end before she finished "that's more like it. Now you know the time frame, so be prepped, for come Monday morning…... Naruto Uzumaki shall be unleashed onto the shinobi forces."

Once the last part of that statement registered in their heads, it caused the mass of shinobi to all turn white.

Tsunade could not help but smirk at how she was looking at the outlines of people. 'This should be entertaining.'

The mass of shinobi all had one collective thought

'WHAT HAVE WE JUST SIGNED UP FOR?!'

~Uzumaki compound~

Ino walked into the living room, looking for Naruto as she wanted to ask him about the news she heard. She found him sitting on the couch in front of the tv, watching a movie, with Hinata sitting on his right with her head leaning on his shoulder and in the crook of her neck. "Hey, you two. What are you watching?" she asked as she moved towards them

Hinata shifted her eyes to look at Ino before looking back to the screen "it's a movie about a woman being cursed before she goes out to find a way to break it."

Ino plopped onto the couch to Naruto's left before she flopped down so her head ended up on his lap "haven't we seen something like that before?"

Naruto brought his free hand to Ino'shead before he began to run it through her hair, petting her. "No, this one was something that Hinata brought over so we could watch. You did miss the small talking fire placing a curse on their breakfast. Funny scene really, also made me want some bacon and eggs"

Ino couldn't help but shake her head as she watched the movie that the other two had already started. After a minute, she remembered what she wanted to ask "hey, what was all that about you being unleashed on the shinobi forces on Monday?"

Naruto chuckled at this, as he remembered about the meeting he had with Tsunade. "I made a bet with Baa-chan so that she would allow me to go out on my own mission. She sets up the challenge and if I win, I'm allowed to go, if I lose, then I would stay in the village."

Both girls shifted away from Naruto and gave him an incredulous look as Hinata asked "would you really stay in the village if you lost though?"

Naruto turned his head to Hinata before looking to Ino. he kept turning his head to see that they were both giving him an unbelieving look. He chuckled as he rubbed the back of his head "well, I would stay in the village…...for maybe a day longer."

Ino shook her head "thought so." before both went back to their original positions to watch the rest of the movie. "Are you going after the compounds again?"

Naruto shook his head "no. I already got them the last time that I went on a pranking spree. This time it's just Jonin and Chunin that aren't in a clan."

Hinata sighed as she asked "can you please not do too much to our senseis? I don't want you to upset Kurenai-sensei too much."

Naruto nodded "alright. I won't take anything of major value from Kurenai or Asuma. Kakashi-sensei, Guy-sensei, and the other team senseis are free reign."

Ino shrugged her shoulders "eh, that's fine."

Naruto smiled as he already had plans for how to steal from the shinobi until his mind stopped on one kunoichi in particular. This caused him to remember something important. "Oh hey girls, just to let you know, that Anko will be moving in with us tomorrow."

This sudden news caused both to shift their heads to look at him in shock. After a few seconds, Hinata calmed down a bit as she asked "you mean both of them right?"

"Yeah. Anko has been looking for a new place to live since her apartment isn't big enough for them and I offered her one of my rooms for her and Asa-chan."

Ino looked confused as she had met Anko before but she did not know about who Asa was "who is Asa?"

Naruto looked down at Ino with a smile "her daughter."

"She has a daughter?"

Naruto nodded as he looked back to the tv "yeah. Anko adopted her a while ago and has been trying her best to be a good mother to Asa-chan."

Ino then had a tiny revelation "so that's why you built that playground in the front courtyard."

"Yep. mad a deal with Anko that if she couldn't find a place of her own in a month, that she would have to move in with me."

Hinata shook her head as she sighed "you are just manipulating everyone you know aren't you?"

"No. I'm just tricking them into something that is good for them."

That's Manipulating, Naruto" was Ino's response to what he said

"Yeah but the word just makes me sound evil."

"You are evil." The three chuckled at this as they entered a comfortable silence and watched the rest of the movie

~Sunday morning, Anko's apartment~

"Mommy, why are you making everything disappear?"

Anko had just finished storing the last of the furniture into a storage scroll before she put it away in her jacket. Turning to her daughter she smiled "because we are going to live in a bigger house."

Asa hugged her little fox plushie tighter in excitement "really?"

Anko nodded as she went over and picked Asa up and put her on her shoulder, getting a giggle from the girl "yep. I was planning on us moving to a better home sooner or later and we now have a place."

"Where?"

Anko smiled as she placed her apartment key on the kitchen counter "you'll see." She moved to the door and took one last look at the place she used to call home. She couldn't help but smile as this could be considered a way of leaving her past behind. She walked out of the apartment for the last time and began making her way to Naruto's compound.

As Anko made her way through the streets, she could feel Asa tighten her grip around her head. Asa may have gotten better at being around people but she still had that lingering fear. Thankfully, it didn't take long until the two of them were on a familiar street.

Once Asa recognized where they were she pointed to the compound wall "Woofy lives here! Are we living near woofy?!"

Anko's smile could not get any bigger 'I love this girl.' "sort of" was her answer. They rounded the corner to see the entrance to the compound with Naruto standing there waiting for them.

Asa waved at him once she noticed him "woofy!"

Naruto smiled as he raised his hand in the air to wave back. He waited for them to get closer before he spoke "took you long enough."

Anko smirked as she ruffled his hair "don't act so snobby Gaki. It doesn't suit you."

Asa was bouncy on Anko's shoulder as she was happy to see the blonde and that she was going to live close to him "woofy, guess what! We are going to live close to you now!"

Naruto quirked an eyebrow at Asa before turning his gaze to Anko who was looking anywhere but at him, despite having a smile on her face "you're mean Anko-nee."

Anko seemed to gain a halo over her head as she tried to act all innocent "oh am I?"

Naruto smiled as he shook his head before looking up at Asa "Asa-chan, you're not living close to me. You're going to live with me."

Asa was confused when she heard the first part but she gained the biggest smile anyone has ever seen when she heard the last part. Her smile was so bright that she was shining "really!?"

Naruto smiled as he gestured for them to go inside.

Anko picked Asa up from her shoulders before putting her down just to see Asa run inside. She chuckled as she and Naruto followed the little girl only to see Asa standing there looking at the courtyard...or rather the new addition to the courtyard. Anko followed her gaze and was surprised to see a full playground there. Monkey bars, play castle, sandbox, swings, see-saw, spinning wheel, tire swing, slide, climbing structure with heavy padding under it. Anko looked to Naruto with a smile "you did this all for her didn't you?"

Naruto smiled back at her "is that a question?"

Anko could only shake her head as she moved over to Asa "welcome to our new home."

Asa shook her head to get out of her confusion before she jumped into Anko's arms laughing. After a few seconds, she dropped to the ground before hugging Naruto with all the strength she had.

Safe to say, she loved her new home

~Monday, 4:58 AM~

Naruto stood atop the fourth Hokage's stone head as he looked out to the village. He waited for the appointed time before he started the challenge. He smiled mischievously at the village below "kiss your precious items shinobi of Konoha. For by the end of this challenge, you will lose them to me."

The sun began to peek from behind the mountain and the second the first light was visible to Naruto. He disappeared into the village.

~village streets~

The villagers were going about their business as normal, without a care in the world. But they had a small tinge of worry as no matter where they went, they saw the shinobi that would walk the streets, twitch at the most mundane sounds.

One male shinobi kept turning his head as if he was in enemy territory and everyone around him was an enemy. He was an ordinary-looking Chunin that was hoping to spend his day off relaxing but apparently the challenge his Hokage made now made him a mass of stress.

*clang*

"Ah!" he turned to his right ready to attack what made the sound but he lowered his stance when he saw it was just an elderly woman dropping a couple of pots. He shook his head as he began to continue his trek.

*splash*

"HM!" once again ready for a fight only to see a man splashing water in front of his house (I think that's for cleaning purposes but I'm not sure). Again he shook his head and continued. The rest of his journey had him jumping at every sound and he even took the long way when he saw a black cat walking by. He made it to the store that he was going to get breakfast at. Grabbing a breakfast sandwich he went to pay for it at the counter but as he rummaged through his pocket, he realized that he didn't have his money. No …. That was right. He had his money but it wasn't in his wallet. The money was just stuffed in his pocket. He put the sandwich down and began looking for his wallet. "Where is it? I know I grabbed it and put it in my pocket when I left home. come on, come on! I really liked that wallet."

The store clerk heard what the shinobi mumbled and spoke up "did you value it?"

Not looking up the shinobi answered "yeah!"

"...Then maybe Naruto took it."

The male nin stopped and thought about what the boy was going to do. 'He is supposed to take something of value from us….not prank us…...then….' he slumped down with a gloomy aura as he realized that he was panicking for nothing. Aure he lost his wallet but that was it. While still in his gloom, he pulled out the money to pay for his sandwich and paid for it. He left while glumly eating his breakfast. 'At least this is still good.'

On a rooftop just across the street was Naruto looking down at the male nin. He was doing his best holding in his laughter. "Seriously. I'm not going to prank anyone this time around and yet they are all on alert for that." he looked around to see a few other shinobi just as jumpy as the man. He pulled out the empty wallet and looked it over "nice wallet but no match for mine." He pulled out his toad and fox wallet as he rubbed his face and smiled at how fat the two were. After his little moment, he summoned a few clones and sent them off to pick off some of the Chunin. He then turned around to go after a few special Jonin that he felt the need to have some fun with.

~Kakashi~

Kakashi was at his house on full alert as he wanted to protect his most precious treasure. His Icha Icha collection. "You won't get them Naruto! I won't let you!" he had his Sharingan out and ready for use. He knew it was chakra draining but he would not let his student take his beloved.

"Ka~kashi~"

Kakashi pulled out his kunai ready to pin Naruto down as he heard Naruto's voice speak in a ghastly way. He used his Sharingan to find any sense of where Naruto could be.

"You left it all alone~ your poor little green book."

Kakashi panicked as he realized that he left the book he usually has in his weapons pouch on a coffee table next to his front door. He ran out of the door in order to save his favorite reads. Faster than he has ever done, he went and grabbed the book before he moved back to stand in front of his Icha Icha bookcase that held his normal copies, his signed copies, his special edition copies, and his signed special edition copies. Looking it over he saw that none of them were out of place or missing. He gave a sigh of relief as he was still in the clear. Until he heard a squeaky voice speak up

"Kakashi! Why have you abandoned us!?"

Kakashi looked toward the voice to see it came from his bookcase. This confused him until he saw, to his horror one by one, his books disappearing in puffs of smoke "NO!" he ran to the case and grabbed as many as he could and ran for his life but it was of no use. The books in his arms were disappearing and he could do nothing. The worst thing about it was that his Sharingan recorded all of it in his head. Forever it will remain in his head. Soon he only had a few left and he held them close to his chest and he began to beg "no, not Aoki!..."

*poof*

"Saya-chan!"

*poof poof*

"Miko! Aika!"

*poof poof….poofpoofpoofpoofpoof*

"NO!" He only had one left, the one he saved for the table, and he ran to leave his house, hoping to save his last remaining book. He got to the door and grabbed the doorknob, ready to leave until….

*poof*

He paused and looked down at his hand to see the smoke seeping through his fingers. They were gone. Every. Single. One. he fell to his knees and could only do one thing he screamed to the sky "NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" he curled up in a ball and cried for a minute until "he stole my precious! We needs the precious!" he then coughed out the next two words "ICHA ICHA! He stole the preciouses."

Naruto put the last book he stole from his sensei on top of the pile of Icha Icha books before sealing them inside a scroll. "One sensei down. Few more to go."

~Kurenai~

Kurenai was filing reports about how her team had been performing in the previous missions. She knew about Naruto's challenge and although she had no clue as to why the Hokage would do something like this, she didn't let her bother her. This did not mean that she had lowered her guard as she felt a presence close to her but did not respond immediately. She had already set up a genjutsu so that anyone in it would have their perceptions messed up so a person would see her on the other side of the room instead of where she was sitting. Hearing something on the other side of the room, she lifted her head and tossed a kunai where the sound came from, only to see it just hit the wall. Honing her sense to the rest of the room, she felt someone else with her and she prepared herself for whatever was to come.

*shuffle*

She tossed another kunai to her right only to hit nothing. She lowered herself to be a smaller target as well as ready to jump out of the way of whatever could come. She heard the random shuffle around the room and kept sharp. Soon there was only silence but like any good shinobi, she stayed ready. After a minute she shifted her eyes up as she noticed movement. She brought her hand up to throw her kunai but paused when she saw it was a yellow sticky note. Lifting her left hand to grab it. She brought it to her face but still have the room in view to read it

"Item will be returned really soon. Not something that should stay out of your hands."

She was confused about this as it made it sound as if he had already taken what he needed to take but as she looked around, she saw that everything was still in place. "What could he have taken?" she brought the note up again and noticed something missing. Something that should be on her finger. Her eyes grew wide as she felt some panic at this but she re-read the note. "Item will be returned soon…." she felt anger at the stolen item but she couldn't really fault the boy since that was the challenge. Steal the most valuable thing from the Jonin and Chunin "Naruto, you better return it to me or you will regret ever being born!" she crumpled the note and left her house in order to vent however she could.

~Asuma~

Asuma was playing shogi with Shikamaru at their training field as Ino and Choji sparred. She kept looking over to the two and was impressed at the major improvement that Ino was showing. Ino had become extremely more agile than before and now neither Choji nor Shikamrau could hit her in their taijutsu training. Something that he had noticed was that she now wore bands around her wrists and ankles. This got him to think that she got them from Naruto since he had seen Hinata wearing something similar. He was still on the fence about the boy being with both Ino and Hinata but he realized that he could not really force them apart as it was their business, not his. And either way, Ino had never looked happier, so nothing bad was happening.

"Your move Asuma-sensei."

Asuma looked back to the board and thought about his next move. He stared at the pieces and automatically brought his hand to his pocket to pull out his pack of cigarettes but furrowed his brows when he couldn't feel it in his normal pocket. He began to look through his other jacket pockets only to find them empty as well.

Ino and Choji had finished their spar with Choji breathing heavily but Ino looked no worse for wear.

Choji saw that Asuma was looking for something "what's up sensei?"

Asuma chuckled as he looked to the two "can't find my cigarettes. I know I had them when we got here."

Ino sighed as she moved to sit down under the shade of the tree next to the shogi players "Naruto came by and took them from your pocket earlier. I think it was like two of Shikamaru's moves ago."

The other three looked at her in shock with Shikamaru asking "what do you mean he came by and took them?"

"Just like I said. He came by, hid in the tree you are under, used a clone to replace it with the pack and when you were moving your arm, the clone poofed away. Speaking of which…" she moved her arm to reach behind her and grabbed something on the side of the tree. Bringing it forward she saw it was a storage tag and unsealed it's contents "ooh sweet, lunch." it was a bento with some food he cooked himself

As she was doing this, the other three were just slacked jawed at what she had just said with Asuma shaking his head to ask "how do you know that Ino? When none of us even felt his presence."

Ino grabbed the chopstick that came with the meal and took a bite "I've been around him long enough to know the signs of when he is around. Doesn't hurt that when my eyes looked over to you guys he waved at me. I just guessed how he stole it from you since it is usually how he would steal something. Why get close when his clone can use the Kawarimi to bring the item to him."

Asuma could not help but be amazed at the usage of such a simple academy jutsu being used in such a manner. The shadow clone jutsu and kawarami together could create the greatest thief. Thankfully it isn't something people would normally come up with. He sighed as he placed his hand on his pocket where he normally kept the pack but felt something else in it. In confusion, he reached in and pulled out what shouldn't be in there. A ring. A ring similar to the one he had on his finger. This made him realize what it was "ooh kid, this is a risky thing to take."

Shikamaru looked to Asuma and saw the ring. Putting two and two together, he could only sigh "troublesome."

Asuma got to his feet and spoke to his team "well, guys I got something I gotta return so we're going to have to meet up some other time. And Shikamaru, you should get to the Hokage tower to see if there is a mission you can take.

Shikamaru only sighed once more "troublesome blonde."

Choji sat down next to Ino staring at the food who smiled and offered him another bento that was in the storage seal since Naruto knew that Choji would want some.

~Guy~

Could only stare at his team in a bit of confusion as he was missing his most youthful student. "Have either of you seen Lee? It is unlike him to not be here for training."

Tenten and Neji looked at each other as they shrugged.

Tenten looked to Guy as she said "we haven't seen him all morning. We usually expect him to be the first one here."

Neji sighed "it could be that he had become ill and was unable to inform us."

Tenten shook her head "Nah, he would still come here and train even if he felt like he was dying. He would just say that he would use the power of youth….." she shivered that she said that word "...to beat the illness."

Neji thought about it for a minute but after it, he nodded as it was something that Lee would do. Lee would only rest if Guy told him it was youthful to do so.

Guy grew worried as this meant that no one had seen him. He was about to say that they should go find him until the heard

"Hey!"

Team 9 looked to where the voice came from to see Karin stomping he way to them

Tenten waved at the redhead "hey Karin-san, what are you doing here?"

Karin waved at them as she walked up to Guy and handed the man a note "I'm not a messenger. My cousin better pay me back for this. I'll see you guys later. There is a meal back in the hospital with my name on it…...literally." Karin then ran back the way she came as she wanted to eat her meal.

Guy looked at the folded piece of paper before opening it and read it out loud

"Stole your student. He'll be back later….not sure when but later."

The two genin looked at the note in confusion as Neji asked "How in the world did he 'steal' Lee?"

Tente gave a low whistle "wow, I know this was the challenge but I never thought he would be able to do that. Wonder where Lee is anyway?"

~Main gate~

The eternal gate guards were bored out of their mind as Naruto had stolen their board games and playing cards that they kept in the stand so all they could do was sit there and look at the sky.

"YYYYYYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHH!"

Both guards jumped out of their seats at the loud sound and looked out of the gates in time to see something rush past at great speeds. As it ran past they heard

"COME NARUTO! WE MUST KEEP UP THIS RACE TO SHOW THE WORLD OUR YOUTHFUL SPIRIT YYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooossshhhhh!"

Izumo looked to Kotetsu in confusion "was that Guy?"

Kotetsu shook his head as he leaned back in his chair "nope. That was Lee and from what I heard he thinks he is racing Naruto in something."

"But isn't he supposed to be doing that challenge that Lady Hokage gave him and us."

Kotetsu shrugged "from what I saw in that dust cloud, it was only Lee. so he might think he is racing Naruto but he really is just running around by himself."

Izumo sat back in his chair as he asked "shouldn't we be worried about the whole removing us from the ranks thing Lady Hokage said?"

Kotetsu smiled mirthlessly "I think the whole thing was for Naruto rather than us. Or it could be that she sent out one of the stealthiest shinobi in the whole village to show us that we are being outdone by a fresh out of the academy genin turned Chunin, nice motivation when a kid is outdoing the adults at least in stealth."

"How do you think he got so good that he is able to be Anbu level stealthy?"

"Hide from the people enough times and you get good at hiking. Remember when he hid in this shack that one time a few drunks were after him?"

Izumo nodded "sucked to see the kid tremble in fear from them."

The two sat there doing nothing but watch the non-existent traffic.

"Wish he didn't take all our games though."

"...yeah"

~Alternate living room scene~

Ino walked into Naruto's compound as she came back from training. She felt the need to sit down and relax a bit before she spent the rest of the day with Hinata and Naruto. As she made her way deeper in the compound, she heard some noise coming from the direction she was heading. She made her way towards the living room, where the tv and one of the kitchens was and paused at what she saw.

"Hmmm~ hmm~ hnnn~! Be a little rougher Naruto-ku~n!"

"Ok."

Naruto was giving Hinata another massage and he was right now working on Hinata's thighs and lower leg.

Ino blushed at the moans she was hearing from Hinata and it caused her body to heat up a bit. She soon began to have some…..naughty thoughts 'NO! We are too young for those kinds of things!" however there was another part of her that popped up and spoke

"but we are ninja. Once we put on those Hitai-ate we are considered adults"

Ino refortified her mental will and pushed down "Inner Ino" and shook her head "looks like you're having fun."

Naruto looked up to see Ino standing there "welcome home Ino! You're going to have to wait a bit before you get your turn."

Ino immediately shook her head as she did not want a repeat of last time. She was very noisy the last time "no I don't want to…"

"It's ok Naruto-kun. Ino can have her turn now. I….already feel relaxed." Hinata sat up as she was breathing heavily and was sporting a massive blush. She moved over to Ino and grabbed her hand before leading the female blonde to the couch that Naruto was sitting on one end.

"Hinata! I don't really need….!" Ino stumbled forward until she fell into Naruto's arms. She immediately pushed off but as she did this, she fell back and found her head landing on Hinata's lap. She looked up at the bluenette to see a loving smile on her face. She was about to say something but instead let out a squeak as she felt Naruto's strong hands begin to rub her feet.

"Don't worry Ino. I've gotten better at this….at least that's what Hinata says. He began to use his thumbs to apply pressure to the bottom of her left foot.

Ino could not help but blush at the tickling feeling she felt at what he was doing. "Naruto~ you don't have to eep!" her words died when he shifted his thumbs from the ball of her foot to the center. She enjoyed the feeling of his thumbs rotating around that part but she tried not to laugh as it tickled more than anything. Mentally she was shouting to herself to tell him to stop before he got to her leg but as she opened her mouth, she felt a finger on her lips.

"It's ok Ino-chan. Just relax."

"But Hinataaaa~~~" too late. Naruto had begun running his hands on her leg and her voice could no longer form words. She began to breathe harder as he ran her hand up her leg and massaged the muscles in her lower leg. "Hi~H~i-HH~i~nata I can't."

Hinata smiled as she placed her hands on the sides of Ino's face "it's ok."

She panted out her next words "but I wanted to ask abooooouuunnnnn~" Naruto's hands made it to her thighs and she was now lost. She gripped the couch as if to hold herself steady. "Hn~ hn~ hn~ NarutooooOOOOO~~~~~"

Naruto stopped as the scent that he recognized from the last time he gave them a massage. He didn't know why but the smell was...intoxicating. He shook his head and looked at the panting Ino. it was weird since she would yell out his name when he worked on her thigh. He would have thought that it was hurting her but Ino had told him that she had enjoyed it. "A little too much" were her words. Naruto looked at the panting face of Ino and he thought it was appealing but shook his head as he asked "what did you want to ask me Ino."

It took a few more minutes before Ino was able to ask about the challenge that she heard from her sensei. After hearing about the whole challenge, where it came from, and about Anko coming to live with them, she excused herself and said she was going to take a cold shower before she grabbed Hinata and dragged the girl away.

Naruto sat there in confusion before he went to the kitchen to get something to eat. Still wondering where that interesting smell came from

End of chapter

Now, do you guys want me to make another part of the challenge with a few more shinobi or do you want me to just go to the end of it? Either works for me

Working on the first chapter of the first side fic of Fo in the leaf, since it is far too clear cut. The first chapter will be out on the 30th which is when the poll will close. After this poll closes, another poll will be up so I know what the next crossover fic with my Naruto will be. Trust me I have ideas for most of the choices given. It will be the same as the first one but without the winner of this poll so you readers will have a chance to vote for another world they end up in.

The alternate way Ino and Hinata found out about the challenge was the original way I was going to do it, albeit a lot shorter and less…..suggestive but I changed it to the movie watching thing.

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