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Ehem, I was going for a Krusty the clown kind of laugh, I think I pulled it off. Yeah… I totally did.

I haven't forgotten about this story, I've just been occupied writing others and living my life, that's all. It's a short chapter but it's something, right?

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CHAPTER 7

Time skip: Two years later

"We're being followed," Minisaki muttered to her sensei as the team tree hopped back to Konoha at a leisurely pace,

The man nodded with a grim expression, "I know. I can't get a good lock on his or her strength from behind me," seeing as he used his sense of smell can't do that, "Naruto, Jo," Jet made sure to keep up her pace like she too hadn't sensed the person,

"On it," the boys whispered and spread out while placing on their head pieces and tuning into the team's channel. The densely packed trees were shrouding the person's chakra in nature chakra but there was something the person didn't count on; Jo could see miles behind him and Naruto could connect his senses with his sentient sword to boost his natural senses, like using echolocation but…different.

The team were returning from Waterfall village, donning freshly minted Konoha chunin flak jackets and feeling incredibly confident in their abilities. The only paved way to get to and from Konoha and Waterfall was by passing close to the edge of a cliff that the two villages shared, but the team were much too excited to take the scenic route, so they chose to cut through the forest dividing the two villages. Now apparently they had a tail.

Naruto placed a finger to his headpiece and said, "Female, high lightening chakra affinity, swordswoman,"

Jo added in what his eyes could see, "looks to be in her late twenties, Kiriagakure forehead protector, jounin flak jacket and…did-did she just wink at me?"

Naruto briefly closed his eyes as he soared from one branch to the other, opening them again as his foot touched down on his intended branch, "huh…" he held the half ram hand seal and Samehada stiffened as sound waves from far behind him bounced back from tree to tree and entered his ears. As more and more sounds came to him, his brain began forming a mental image of her, starting from the base, which was her skeletal system, to her whole body, "she wasn't winking at you, Jo," he sighed and Aizen easily deduced what he was talking about,

"We have another Kiri swordsman problem?"

"We have a seven swordsmen of the mist problem. Just one swordsman this time," Naruto replied through his receiver and changed his direction, "follow me," the team followed after him, so did the tail, and he landed in a spacious part of the forest where a large natural lake could be seen and lush grass was sparely spread around, though hard soil dominated the glade. Naruto took off his receiver and stuffed it into a side bag, "the second one in two years,"

"That's a good thing, right?" Minisaki asked quietly as she looked over at Naruto, who was took off his bag and tossed it to her, she caught it and slung it across her body, opposite her own side bag, "Zabuza didn't really give you that big of a problem,"

A large sweat drop grew on the back of Naruto's head and he chuckled with his hands behind his neck; Minisaki always had a way with words. He did best Zabuza in a straight up Kiri style all-out fight but it did give him a problem, especially seeing as Zabuza had been born and trained in the place he (Naruto) was learning from second hand knowledge style. It all just came down to speed and being smart.

Naruto was better with Samehada, that fact was certain, but he still had a niggling feeling of doubt in him, something his girlfriend knew all about. She helped boost his confidence whenever the time came, like right now.

The Aburame clenched her hands into fists and continued, "I'm pretty sure you can handle this chick,"

Aizen slowly smirked and spoke, "I mean…you're getting better using that thing," the boy looked at his sensei with dull, sarcastic eyes and the man sent him a thumb up before he took a seat at the far side of the glade on the grass, Jet sat down beside her partner. He found out from Naruto that there was a sort of induction test whenever a new member of the seven swordsmen of mist appeared. They had been lucky to have only met Zabuza so far and that was during a miss-ranked mission to Wave. The boy got more practice in and he knew much more than he did that time.

"You can do it, Naruto-san," Jo said as he briefly bowed and firmly shook Naruto's hand, he then leaned in and whispered, "and don't worry; we'll step in before she kills you,"

Naruto sighed in relief, "thank you," the Hyuuga nodded and went to sit over with his sensei, leaving only Minisaki and Naruto before the swordswoman landed in the glade, electricity crackled in her wake. She was a white haired lady with small pouty red lips and black lined eyelashes. She was in a long sleeved blue shirt with her hands in brown elbow long gloves. She was in tight black pants with black sandals. At her sides were a pair of swords that briefly crackled with electricity. She had a sly smile on her face as she approached Naruto; Minisaki walked over as well and stood beside Naruto with her chin raised in a defiant pose.

The woman licked her lips seductively, something that made the Aburame clench her hands tighter and unsettle the bugs that lived in her. The bearer of the twin lightening swords, Kiba, was the one the broke the tense silence, "I knew you would look good but I didn't think you looked this good," she lifted her right hand to simply touch Naruto's neck gills but a sharp slap from the boys girlfriend pushed it back down. The woman now had a vicious smirk plastered on her face, even growling menacingly but the Aburame wasn't afraid; she puffed out her modestly sized breasts, wrapped tightly in bandages and butted heads with the swordswoman, "and who might you be?" she said in a silky soft voice.

"His girlfriend…bitch,"

This was the moment Naruto chose to intervene before blood was shed, "ok, I think that's enough," he slipped between then and pushed them apart. The woman looked at the hand on her shoulder, his hand, and then slowly looked up at him with hooded eyes. She grabbed his fingers and laced hers in them, "Uhm…?"

"I like you already. The books say you're strong for your age and you look absolutely…delicious," she licked her red lips, seduction thick in the air, "how about we cancel our fight and go on a date?"

"Not sure you've noticed but I have a girlfriend," he refrained from swallowing thickly at the sheer amount of arousal he could sense rolling off her. His Aburame girlfriend watched this patiently, gauging Naruto's reaction, "and please stop with the flirting,"

"Forget about her," he raised an eyebrow at the impossible thought of forgetting about Minisaki and she could see it wouldn't happen, "how about this? I can…share you with her, but you'll prefer me, I promise,"

That was probably the straw that broke the camel's back, the push that opened the gates of hell, the gong that called the wolves to feast, the siren that woke up the beast. The quiet, mellow and down-to-earth Aburame girlfriend, who was incredibly proud of the fact that she had a nice guy as a boyfriend and who would also rather have her hive ripped out of her living body than share her man with anyone else…did something she will never regret.

She punched the Mist swordswoman square on the face, there was even a quiet crunch.

The blow flung the surprised swordswoman, who wasn't used to surprises, once before she righted herself mid-air and landed on her feet. She wasn't happy and she made this fact clear when she unsheathed her twin swords, lightening crackling around her menacingly before she dashed over to the offending, but at the same time offended, girl.

"Who the fuck do you think you are?!" she yelled as she zipped to the bug girl and brought down her sword but it clanged off Naruto's back, where the chakra draining sword was sheathed, and the lightening was summarily sucked out but she cancelled the jutsu before it took all of her chakra.

Meanwhile, Naruto, who had used his body to block the killing blow, was busy trying to hold the bug girl down, who was trying to jump over him to tackle the older female. The boy stored this piece of information in his mind to remind her later; it was adorable when he saw her jealous, even the smaller signs. This was by far the worst case of jealousy he had ever seen from her. The Namikaze might have been fourteen but he had been told he looked at least sixteen, given his height and his wide shoulders, still a head taller than Minisaki, half a head taller than Jo but level with Aizen. He was also fairly good looking; he would usually get passes from the females of other villages, not usually Konoha, and she would clearly show her place as his girl by holding his hand and, sometimes, growling at the. Some of them usually backed off, some others would go a bit further and openly try and seduce the boy and Minisaki would go a bit further and quietly whisper death threats before the women got the message and left, this usually worked on civilians. The Kunoichi would leave as soon as the Aburame dragged her boyfriend into an open mouth kiss, decency be damned. But this older, attractive, and very expressive woman got under her skin more than the other competition because she was well aware of the fact that Naruto was taken and she had brought up the option of sharing him.

No.

Oh, hell No.

Naruto laughed as she jumped but he caught her and placed her back down, this didn't stop her from exchanging heated, offensive, usually un-Minisaki kind of words with the woman, "who the hell do you think you are, you damn whore,"

"I'm the third best swordsman in the seven swords, bitch,"

"Do I look like I fucking care?!" the girl had now abandoned all self-control and was pointing at herself before she pointed at her source of rage, "Do I look like I fucking care?!"

The woman, who still hadn't introduced herself, jabbed her own finger over Naruto's shoulder, careful not to touch the bandaged wrap on his back, "if I get my hands on you I will tear your tongue out and push it straight up your p-"

"Alright! Ok! That's more than enough," Naruto yelled and pushed the girl, who wasn't as strong as him back.

"You know what? I change the seven swordsman wager from your sword to her life. If I win, I get to kill her, you watch me kill her and…" then her rage filled expression morphed into one of love, possibly the first of its kind for her, and she placed a hand over her beating heart, "you will be my boyfriend forever, or until we get married," she chirped.

Naruto's amused face was wiped off his face at that moment and replaced with that of horror; the girl in his arms had stopped struggling. She was hugged close to his heart so she could hear it beat quickly at the thought of her being killed and being forced to watch it. At that time she remembered her role as his supporter; the person that boosts his confidence.

"You can do it. She's not nearly as strong as you," he looked at her with soft blue eyes and nodded before he led her to his teammate and team sensei,

"Glad you guys were entertained," he said sarcastically as they were busy eating ration bars. They did manage to say their own encouragements through their stuffed mouths as he walked back to the swordswoman.

The usual wager of the Seven swordsmen was that when a new member was found and they had been given a sword then, if the person won, he moved up a rank in the seven swordsmen strongest, if he impressed his opponent but lost he would keep his sword, stay in his rank and also be able to make a request. But if it was a clear loss then the person would have his sword stripped from him, Samehada, Kiba or not, and killed immediately for even dreaming of being in their ranks. These wagers could vary by what the challenger wants, but only as long as the challenged also brought forward his own condition.

Naruto rolled his neck and unstrapped his sentient sword, still in its bandages, and said, "but if I win, you will be my servant," he squeezed the handle of his weapon strongly, "for the rest of your life," his face was almost emotionless as he said this,

The woman shrugged, "I can handle that," she twirled her swords in her hand once and held one in a reverse grip while the other was pointed at him, "by the way, my name is Ameyuri Ringo,"

The boy didn't respond, rather he got his massive sword into the position the scrolls had taught him; pointed downwards with one hand and having his legs in a ready position. A mental switch went off and they both dashed at each other as fast as they could run and smashed their weapons against the other; lightening arced over Ameyuri and Naruto's blue hair flared up along with his arm fins.

Authors note

Hell hath no fury than a jealous Aburame. I kinda wanted Minisaki and Ameyuri to fight instead of the latter and Naruto but I decided not to; Minisaki would get killed. That wouldn't do, at least not yet…

Wait, did I say that out loud? Woops…

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