A freak accident during the 5 point seal of Orochimaru had an unexpected result. Instead of one Naruto there are now two; one male and one female. The girl was forced to change her name to Narumi. The boy remained as Naruto but something is off about him

Growing Pains

Narumi growled to herself as she dodged rubber balls thrown at her at speeds comparable to kunai. She had received welts all over her body but those faded quickly. The person delivering the punishment had a huge grin on her face. Tsunade was thoroughly enjoying herself.

After getting pummeled for an hour, Narumi was allowed a break before Shizune took over to give her some further training.

"Kakashi never had me train like this," Narumi complained.

"That would explain your horrendous chakra control and taijutsu," Shizune said in a grumpy voice before sighing. "Well, I guess it could be a blessing that your taijutsu is so bad. You do need a style that fits your body now."

"What's wrong with my style?" Narumi said with a frown and pout.

Shizune shook her head at how oblivious this girl was. How did she even survive as a boy was beyond her. "Get into your basic stance please, Narumi. Hold it for thirty seconds," Shizune said after rubbing the bridge of her nose.

The red headed girl got into a basic stance that might have worked for a boy if he had been a master level taijutsu specialist and double jointed. Shizune could see quite plainly the girl was already off balance and trying to stay steady.

The dark haired medic slowly walked around behind the younger girl and stopped. Without warning Shizune poked Narumi on the shoulder and the red head fell out of her stance and barely managed to remain on her feet.

"Hey!" Narumi cried out. "What did you do that for?"

"Naru-chan, a basic stance is just that, a base. It is the foundation for everything you will do with your taijutsu. You were off balance the entire time trying to hold that stance, weren't you?"

Narumi rubbed the back of her head and smiled slightly before replying, "Kind of."

"A basic stance should be balanced and comfortable for the person who is using it. If you are off balance than you need two moves before you can even block a simple punch. We need to find something new for you. Since most styles work from different basic stances, we will first find you a comfortable stance before moving to a style."

Shizune went through a series of adjustments with Narumi in a basic horse stance. After a number of small adjustments of footing and stepping in various directions, the pair found a stance that worked for the girl. Narumi was shocked at how different it was from her previous lessons on taijutsu. Shizune pressed Narumi for an explanation on why her taijutsu was so poor. Eventually, the red head caved in and told her sensei the truth.

Only the non clan students at the Academy received in school training for taijutsu. The instructor had dozens of students and would not spend a lot of time with any particular one. A good portion of the training time was simply follow along with the moves and little was done to correct the mistakes by any student. The man running it knew most would be rejected as genin and be assigned non combat roles in the village so he did not bother to correct any of it. If a jonin accepted any of the non clan students as ninja it would be up to them to train the genin properly.

Shizune growled even more in annoyance at what Narumi told her. She pulled out a notebook and wrote down the instructor's name. Doing that to one student was unforgivable but doing such poor teaching to an entire class was treasonous. How many potential ninja had been lost due to that instructor's careless teaching?

After taking a few deep breaths to calm down, Shizune went back to working on Narumi's taijutsu.

Naruto was not enjoying his morning. Team 7 had been assigned the mission of catching the demon cat, Tora. They had been in hot pursuit for nearly an hour now after spending nearly that much time tracking and stalking the beast. Naruto growled and pulled up to stop.

Moments later, both Sasuke and Sakura stopped and came back to the blonde.

"What are you stopping for?" screamed Sakura. "We were closing in on the darn cat."

"No we weren't Sakura. It was luring us in again. It is following the same path over and over. Didn't you notice that at all?" Naruto yelled back at the pink haired girl.

The fact became obvious after Naruto pointed out shocked the girl. Sasuke just nodded in agreement with Naruto this time.

"The water tower," Sasuke said.

"Yeah, the water tower," Naruto agreed. "It has done that three times already. It jinks around the tower and then runs through the market district to lose us. But it follows the same path each time it goes through the market. We need to be smarter than the cat. I have a plan."

Sakura huffed and made a dismissing noise at Naruto before he could even continue.

"I was going to give you the easy part of the plan Sakura but now I'm not so sure," Naruto replied to the dismissal.

"What would you know about planning and capture of anything!" Sakura yelled in frustration.

Naruto narrowed his eyes at his teammate and glared.

"Sakura, you have a good mind. Use it before you keep looking like an idiot. Who was always getting chased by chunin after pulling a prank?" Naruto said in a cold voice

Sakura flinched and took a half step back before answering, "You."

"Me. How many times did I get caught by a chunin who was not Iruka-sensei? Not many. I know more about pursuit and escapes than anyone else on this team. I was going over all my training the past few days. I missed a lot of things in the past but I am seeing things a lot clearer now. Now a few more questions for you, Sakura."

"What happens after a genin team catches Tora?" he asked in a slightly warmer tone.

"I don't know," Sakura said.

"Okay, simpler then. What happened to us after the last time we captured Tora?" the blonde asked.

"We had the mission to the Wave country," Sakura replied not seeing where this was going.

"Right. What happened to Team 10 after they caught Tora? Ino should have told you at some point bragging."

"They went on a C-rank mission guarding a merchant caravan," Sakura replied as she began to get it.

"And Team 8. What did they do after capturing Tora?" Naruto asked.

"They had a C-rank escort mission to the border of Tea country," Sasuke replied.

Naruto nodded. "Next, can you catch a cat simply by running after it? Correction, can a single person catch a cat simply by running after it?"

"No," said Sasuke with certainty.

"But a team working together can," said Sakura as she understood where Naruto was going with this.

"Yeah, they are testing teams with this stupid mission to see how well they work together to complete the mission. We go after it with no plan we get run into the ground and it stays free. If we make a plan we can catch the thing pretty easily," Naruto said glad he was not the grinning idiot and would use his brain instead of bluster.

"To catch it we know where it is going to be. It always runs past the water tower and jinks toward the market district. That is where we set an ambush for it," Naruto said with an evil gleam in his eye.

Shortly, Sakura waited holding a net and burlap sack hidden from view at the water tower as Naruto and Sasuke pursued the demonic feline.

Tora was grouchy. Normally genin gave up and let him have a nap long before this. As a nin-cat, his job to spy on the Daimyo's court was important but he had a side job to 'escape' every time his 'owner' came to shop in Konoha. He knew the best way to lose those annoyances and headed for his favorite trick. The water tower was in sight already as Tora sped up to full speed. It jumped and pushed off the pole next to the tower to change direction toward the market district. It knew it would be home free in a few moments when a net appeared in its path to snare it from mid-air. The net was quickly put into a sack by the pink furred annoyance.

Sakura held up the bag as Sasuke and Naruto rounded the tower.

The cat tried to shred the bag but found out that it couldn't while still tangled in the net. It shook and wiggled but to no avail.

"Shaaa! One cat in the bag!" she shouted out loud as for once she was not worried about holding back her feelings.

Sasuke smirked slightly as Naruto just turned and headed back toward the Tower for the mission completion.

"Well done team. I see you figured out the purpose behind assigning out a Tora capture," Kakashi said as he met the genin at the Tower.

"Yeah, it is another teamwork test," Naruto said. "One we could apply in a real capture mission."

"Very good Naruto," Kakashi said with his lone eye creasing as he smiled. "You are more perceptive since you got out of the hospital."

Naruto just shrugged and thought to himself, 'You don't know the half of it.'

As they passed the Academy area, they heard a cheer coming from the taijutsu practice field.

Narumi paused in her walk with Shizune when she heard the cheer from the Academy training field.

"I wonder what is going on there," she said as Shizune fought to hide a smug grin.

"We are almost at the Academy training hall. I have secured permission to use the thrown weapon target range for an hour," the medic said with a smile.

"Why there? Why not keep training at Tsunade's house?" Narumi asked.

"Several reasons. The main one is it is not really set up with a target range. The Senju were primarily a jutsu using clan. Weapons skills tended to be just average since using a jutsu instead of a thrown weapon was easier for them. The other main reason is to get you out of the house and into a more public setting, Narumi."

Shizune had been keeping an eye on the former boy the entire time they had been walking through the village. Narumi was extremely nervous and edgy being around people. The girl kept tugging at her clothing and looking around as if expecting to be called out as a fraud. A few Academy students were standing around outside the building as they approached. Shizune could tell they were fixated on Narumi and she fell back a step to let the red head deal with them.

One poked his friend, "Hey, look. Fresh meat and she is pretty good looking as well."

"Not too sure about that, she has a headband already," another boy mentioned.

"Well, she isn't from around here and that is enough for me. Kind of cute but she looks familiar somehow. Part of a clan maybe?" chimed in a third.

The largest boy there smiled and stood straight from where he had been leaning on the wall. He was a couple of inches taller than his cronies and a lot heavier. He stepped out into the path in front of Narumi.

"Hey pretty thing. I'm …" he started to say when Narumi and Shizune walked right past him.

"Hey! I was talking to you," the boy called after the females who simply entered the building.

"Completely ignoring them like that was mean, Narumi," Shizune said with a chuckle once they got into the training hall.

"They're mean, Shizune-nee. Three of them and me got into a fight a while back when they were picking on Hinata. I didn't win," the girl said with a quaver in her voice. "Since I am not supposed to react to people that I knew … before. I just treated them the way you and Tsunade-sensei told me to."

"But something is bothering you from that," Shizune observed.

"They were just looking at me. But somehow I was feeling dirty from it. It's not like the hateful stares I got before. These were different. They looked almost hungry and I was dinner. I was getting nervous," the girl admitted.

"They were seeing a pretty girl and one tried to flirt with her. Some boys and a lot of men are like that Naru-chan. It is something we have to put up with as women. I am sure you stared at girls enough back then and you did create that jutsu of yours. I think you gave a number of girls a look like that in the past," the medic smiled slyly as she looked at Narumi.

The redhead just shook her head no quickly. "No I didn't. That jutsu was for overpowering perverts! I only looked at the magazines for how to make it look right!"

"Okay, Naru-chan, whatever you say. Now, time to work on your throwing weapons," Shizune said slipping into teacher mode.

Sakura waved goodbye to Sasuke without bothering him and noticed Naruto was off even faster than her former crush. Her nervous habit of late to braid grass came back as she took hold of a lock of her mid back length hair and began to braid it as she headed for the place Ibiki had said she would be able to contact him.

The building itself was non-descript but a secretary there asked her to wait after Sakura explained her reason for coming. It took a half hour but she shuddered as the imposing form of Morino Ibiki was standing in the doorway.

"You have something you wished to discuss, Haruno?" Ibiki said in his gravelly voice.

"Um, yes Sir. I need to talk about something but can't to anyone else. About my teammate, Naruto," the pink haired girl said in a quiet voice.

Ibiki nodded. "Come with me," he said.

The scarred man led the girl down a hallway to an airy room that looked more like a break room than anything else to her. The special jonin pulled a bottle of something out of a refrigerator and a glazed donut from a case and sat at a table.

"Feel free to have something, Haruno. We toss out more than we ever actually eat. It is okay to talk here. The entire building is secure," he said as he sat at a table and gestured to the seat on the other side.

"This doesn't feel like a headquarters," Sakura said as she got a bottle of water and Danish.

"It's not. This is just a place where people come to talk to us willingly. Now, you have some concerns about Uzumaki?"

"Yes Sir. I don't know the right way to say it but he is different somehow. I know that jutsu in the Forest did something to him. He just doesn't feel like Naruto anymore."

Sakura pulled another lock of her long hair over her shoulder and started braiding it as she talked.

"I was thinking before about the red chakra that I saw. I had seen it before in the Wave country during the bridge fight. It felt so … wrong. The blue chakra felt nice but the red stuff just made me want to run and hide. Then in the Forest, whatever happened with that ball of chakra and seeing both … Wait, both! There were two people on the ground after that jutsu, weren't there?"

"I currently have no documentation on what happened in the Forest during the Exams," Ibiki said in a calm voice. "You were talking about how Uzumaki was different. Tell me about that."

"Well, he always used to be smiling all the time and bugging me for dates. The past few days since he got out of the hospital that has changed. I mean he looks the same and dresses the same but it's like he is cold to everyone now. When I went to hit him the other day …"

"You hit your teammate?" Ibiki broke in.

Sakura blushed and fiddled with the small braid of hair in her hand. "Sometimes, um, if he really pisses me off. When he says something stupid or won't leave me alone."

"I see. So you went to hit him?" Ibiki prodded.

"Um, yeah I went to hit him and he just stepped out of the way and gave me this look and told me he wasn't going to let me do that anymore."

"Have you tried to hit him again since that time?" Ibiki asked.

Sakura shook her head. "No, I've been too scared to try."

Ibiki nodded and tapped the table a few times with his finger.

"So you know; this is the very reason I asked you to come talk with me if anything is bothering you. The boy did go through a terrible ordeal. It can have long reaching implications if it affected his mind. Is there anything else different about him?"

Sakura had not considered the idea that Naruto acting different could be due to his experience.

"Well, on a mission to catch Tora today, he came up with a solid plan and it worked. He never takes the time to think things through like that before acting. I guess he could be doing that because he had gotten hurt," Sakura said slowly as if hesitant to talk about things. "But he insulted me too. He said I was missing some obvious things on what Tora was doing."

"A lot of genin underestimate Tora, Haruno. If you caught that cat this early in the day your team must have figured it out. But I need to get back to other duties so one thing I would like to ask. You took taijutsu at the Academy, didn't you?" the scarred man asked.

"Yes, I did. Why?" Sakura said in a slightly confused tone.

"How would you rate the teacher for it? There have been a few complaints and I wanted an extra opinion," Ibiki said in a steady voice.

"He sucked. I think I learned more from Ino than I did from that teacher," Sakura grumbled out.

Ibiki nodded and gestured Sakura toward the door. "If you need to talk again, come by and see me. I am glad you remembered the rules of secrecy on the Forest incident and came to see me to clear you mind."

Sakura left the building still confused about a lot of things. The fact that there were two people on the ground after the jutsu stayed in her head this time. She paid little attention to where she was going. She just kept walking as her thoughts occupied her.

Ibiki returned to the main T&I office and called in an operative who acted as a secretary. "Personality changes have been reported in genin Uzumaki file Team 7-Orange, by his teammate. Keep the watchers alert for anything involving Uzumaki in the future. I want all interactions reported for review. I also want to see the Academy psych reports on genin Haruno, file Team 7-Pink.

Narumi was picking up her throwing weapons from the target and floor of the training hall.

'That could have gone better,' she thought as she pried kunai from the back wall. Barely half of her attempts had even struck the target post. The proportions in her body as Narumi were different than they had been as Naruto. Her breasts and hips might not be huge but the weight was enough to throw off her aim when she tried to use the same methods she had known. She needed to relearn how to throw and to not bump or bounce herself in the process. Shizune had shown her proper form and how to properly shift her weight as a girl to maximize the power in the throw. Now she had to learn accuracy.

After an hour, Shizune needed to head to the hospital to take care of some duties she had been acquiring as Tsunade's apprentice. Narumi had begged to stay behind and practice some more. After a short amount of convincing, the woman allowed the girl to stay behind.

Narumi got back into position to throw her blades. She concentrated and hurled three kunai at once. Two missed the post completely and the third stuck too low to hit the target. She was about to throw a second trio when a laugh sounded behind her. She spun to see the boys from earlier standing in the doorway to the training room.

"How did a girl like you earn a headband when you throw like that?" the large boy taunted.

Narumi recalled the beating she had suffered from these same boys as Naruto. Her eyes took in the boys in the doorway and she realized that was the only way out of the room. She re-holstered the kunai in her hand and walked to the post to pull out the knife there before bending to pick up the pair on the floor.

The boys remained in the door as she slid the weapons away and tried to leave. The largest boy stood in the middle while his two friends moved to either side of the redhead, bracketing her.

"So how did you manage to get a headband? I never saw you here in the Academy. You might even be a spy for another village, right guys?"

The other boys agreed with their leader.

"So where did you get it? Where are you from?" the smaller one asked.

"I just returned to the village after being away for a long time," Narumi said while managing not to stutter out her cover story. "I returned with Tsunade-sama. Let me pass."

"Can't. You need to pay the toll first. One kiss for each of us. Then maybe if you are a good kisser you can show us what you have under that baggy shirt," the large boy said with a leer.

Narumi tried to step back disgusted when the boys on either side of her took hold of her arms to keep her in place. The leader made a pucker and leaned in to kiss the girl when an explosion of pain ripped through his lower extremities. He paled and grabbed where Narumi had just kicked and fell to his knees.

The girl then leaned and threw one boy off her arm then the other one. After that she ran out of the Academy building trying not to cry and without even looking where she was going.

Sakura was still wandering after her talk with Ibiki. Without warning, she was run into by someone. She fell to the ground and was ready to pound the pervert that was on top of her when she looked into purple eyes that looked to be barely holding back tears. The feeling of breasts pressing up against hers let her know she had been run over by a girl

"Sakura-chan," she heard a voice whisper in fear as the girl scrambled off of her and attempt to run off.

The pink haired girl grabbed the ankle of the other girl and held on tightly.

"Let me go! Let me go! I didn't mean to run into you!" the other girl protested but Sakura held on and tugged the other girl to the ground. Sakura was getting to her feet and saw a redhead girl with a Konoha headband on crab crawling away until she had backed into a wall. The girl then covered her head with her arms and pulled her legs into her chest.

Sakura was shocked at the reaction by the other girl she never recalled even meeting. 'She is acting like I was going to hit her,' the pink haired girl thought.

"Hey, I think she ran this way," was shouted the next street over and Sakura turned to see three civilian bullies round the corner. The largest looked to be in some pain but his anger was also evident.

"There she is!" he growled as he looked past Sakura to the redhead. Before he could close in on the cowering girl, the bully heard the crackle of knuckles popping. The trio of boys looked to see Sakura with an evil look on her face.

"You Academy dropouts still like to gang up on girls? How about I make this fight a bit more even?" Sakura said with a slight chuckle.

The boys now realized the pink haired girl was someone they had encountered before and fled with memories of pain and a beat down they had received from her during the Academy days. One of them had been foolish enough to grope the girl the prior year. They had dropped back a year in the Academy after that.

Sakura chuckled at the dust the boys made in their retreat and turned to look at the cowering girl once more.

"Hey, I'm not going to hurt you," Sakura told the other girl and gently pulled the girl's arms away from her head. Her chuckle faded as she saw the obvious fear in the purple eyes.

"You okay? What was going on with those boys?" Sakura asked in a gentle voice.

"I was practicing with Shizune-nee and she had to leave so I convinced her to let me stay. Those .. those boys came in and wanted to kiss me and tou .. touch me and look at me. Two grabbed me and I kicked the big one and ran," the girl blubbered out.

Sakura frowned at that but was even more surprised at the girl's reaction. "You're a ninja if that headband means anything. Didn't your kunoichi classes teach you how to handle situations like that?"

"Never had any kind of kunoichi classes," the girl replied as she calmed down slightly.

'She looks familiar but I can't place where I have seen her before," Sakura thought.

"What's your name?" she asked.

"Narut-mi," the redhead stammered out before clearing her throat and clearly saying, "Narumi."

Sakura looked closer at the girl in front of her. She had caught the fake cough and was now wary as she looked into the face of the other girl. The redhead blushed at the close inspection and on either cheek; a trio of barely noticeable white lines were highlighted.

Sakura took on a slightly hostile look. She knew a person with lines like that on his cheeks.

"Your entire name," Sakura said coldly.

"Uzumaki Narumi," the once more cowering girl said in a whisper.

Sakura growled as she looked over the redhead. Naruto usually used a much more busty transformation than this. The clothes were real. She could see the dirt on the 'girl's' face and the tears sliding down her face were wet when Sakura touched them.

Sakura could only stand in awe as the multicolored sphere began to stretch out; first into an ovate shape then pulling in opposite directions. The red chakra swirled around one side and the blue charka around the other until two separate spheres of swirling chakra hung in midair. The light faded until two forms appeared within them only to fall to the ground below as the chakra faded.

The memory replayed and the pink haired girl whispered out, "Oh Kami. That jutsu. Two people fell out."

Sakura could tell she was on to something when a look of abject terror had appeared on Narumi's face.

"Genin, you will both accompany me to the Hokage's office immediately," sounded a voice from behind Sakura. She looked to see an ANBU with a cat mask standing behind them.

Naruto was strolling along whistling after cashing in his pay voucher. He decided that weapons would be his next target of opportunity. There were a few that had always dealt with him honestly so he felt now that he had enough money, he could get himself restocked. In the past he had always scavenged training fields but now he wanted to have first use weapons for himself. He would keep scavenging for training weapons and extra pocket money but missions deserved better. He deserved better.

His thoughts were interrupted as he was going past one of the public bathhouses. A flash of white near a fence caught his eye so he stopped and backtracked until he saw it again. He also pretended not to see a flash of dark blue hair at the edge of a building a short distance behind him. Once he could see where the white was once more he frowned.

Someone was hiding near the fence by the woman's side of the baths. Naruto was many things but he did have more respect for women than that. He might have created a very perverted anti-pervert jutsu but his reasons were not for his enjoyment. His feelings were that he would look if the woman involved wanted him to of her own free will. This peeper had set himself in a good place to avoid capture. It would take someone with ninja skills to get across the scalding hot water coming out of the mineral baths

'This could be a good opportunity to test out that chakra control exercise I have tried a few times under harsher conditions,' he thought. Naruto made a ram hand seal focused his chakra to his feet. Then with the most stealth he could manage he stepped out on to the hot water and made his way across.

The white hair turned out to be a late middle aged man in some kind of red and green outfit and geta sandals. At a glance people would discount the man as a fool but even a dozen feet away Naruto could not get past the fact that no one else had spotted the man. The man was taking notes and let out an occasional giggle.

Even so, Naruto did not want an opportunity to pass him by. The man did not appear to have noticed him yet and with a slight grin Naruto knew the perfect way to treat this pervert.

Jiraiya was distracted by two girls in the hot springs. One had been rubbing the shoulders of the other and he forgot to check his surroundings.

"Sennen Goroshi!" sounded a loud cry behind him. This was followed by immense pain in his buttocks and a jolt of chakra flung him over the wall of the baths into the hot water. The various kunoichi and civilian women surrounded him with buckets, kunai and other implements of destruction. Jiraiya's last conscious thought for some time was 'Where did they hide those kunai?'

In the meantime, Naruto had picked up the dropped notebook and continued on his way to the weapons shop. The normal girl that wore her hair in two buns was not there and the owner blacksmith was running the store today.

"Good morning, Naruto. Glad to see you again," the man called out.

"Good morning," Naruto replied with a slight smile.

"What can I interest you in today? I got some good re-forges on the kunai and shuriken that you normally buy. You can barely tell they had ever been used before."

"Truthfully, I came looking to buy new forged today," Naruto said with a smile. "I figured since I am doing C-rank missions already I should have the best weapons I can afford on them."

The shop owner nodded his agreement. He listened to what the blonde boy needed and quickly pulled the needed goods from the shelves. The final total was impressive but the man tallied it up and told Naruto the price. The blonde thought for a moment before replying.

"That seems kind of high doesn't it?" he said with a slight smile. "I am not sure I can really be certain I am getting the best value for my money."

"Naruto, you know perfectly well you are getting the price that the board says. That is the price I charge everyone who comes in here," the man said with a tone of certainty. He never overcharged anyone.

"I will admit that you never overcharge me. But I am just not quite certain I am getting the best value for my money," Naruto said with a bigger grin.

The shopkeeper understood now and smiled. "Ah, so you want to haggle for the first time ever, huh boy?"

"Maybe," the boy replied drawing out the word to indicate he was

"Well, then lets get to haggling," the shop owner challenged.

In the end, the shopkeeper got the price he wanted. In return, Naruto would walk out with an extra half dozen shuriken, a new kunai holster and several dozen used senbon which he knew he had collected at some point last year but the shopkeeper had not managed to sell.

Both the ninja and the shopkeeper were smiling as they shook hands to seal the deal. Both had thoroughly enjoyed the half hour it had taken to finalize it.

After he left the weapon shop, Naruto turned a random corner instead of heading straight home. He ran up the side of the wall and across the roof to get behind his blue haired stalker. After he dropped behind Hinata without a sound, he snuck up close and whispered to her, "Did he get away from you Hinata-chan?"

Hinata froze at the sound of Naruto's voice. Her face immediately turned red and she began to hyperventilate.

"If you pass out Hinata-chan, who knows what kind of nasty lecherous things might happen to you here in this alley?" he said with a chuckle.

Hinata actually gasped as that as those kind of thoughts danced into her head.

"Naruto-kun touching me," Hinata gasped out as her imagination took flight along with her consciousness.

Naruto caught the Hyuuga heiress and carried her into the weapons shop for safety. Playing ignorant to the shop owner, he left her there to recover from her fainting spell. Hinata never noticed the small notebook full of rough draft porn in her pocket until she was getting ready for bed that night. The notebook was never seen public again. The Hyuuga did notice Hinata being eager to get into her room each night but no one said anything about it.

Next Chapter: Secrets Revealed

End Notes:
Slow progress in the month between the Exams and Finals. I will have the header on top of each chapter now so readers will remember that both Naruto and Narumi are 'Naruto'

Sakura is smarter than the average kunoichi. She figured something out. For good or bad remains to be seen.

Hinata is a naughty girl in this one, deal with it.

Review Notes:
I went back and fixed the problem with genetics. I had the Kyuubi destroy most of Minato's DNA in Narumi's body.

Yes, Dark Naruto is a vindictive little snot. But he is smart enough to know that if he gets himself in trouble, he will not be able to get his revenge. He is being subtle but each chapter he should be doing something if he has the time

Narumi is going to be having more issues with things she never dealt with before. Poor Narumi.

Author Notes:
Work on other stories proceeds and should be published soon.