Timeline: After Kakashi's 'Survival Training'

Omake: The Blackout

Naruto won't admit it to anyone, ever, that she is a little bit scared of darkness.

Just a little.

The blackout was just after the sun was down. But even so, Naruto couldn't handle the darkness and hurriedly walked to open the shuttered curtains. When the moonlight shined upon her two-room apartment, she breathed out with relief and threw herself onto the couch Shisui had brought from his house.

That was what Shisui had witnessed when he, out of nowhere, appeared in the kitchen.

His habit of entering her apartment, apparently, is by using shunshin. A waste of chakra usage, in Naruto's opinion, but who she was to protest when she herself would do it if she had just mastered the damn technique already. Shisui was just back from the Hokage Tower, which was near her apartment, and still, he used it every time. For him to waste his energy just to reach home faster... there might be something going on or he was just lazy. Naruto was betting on the latter.

"I didn't know you're scared of the dark." A smile was on the corner of his lips. Naruto found it humiliating and chose to ignore him by laying on the couch and closing her eyes, impatiently waiting for the blackout to end. "Don't worry, the lights will probably turn on in a minute."

Naruto opened her left eye. "How do you know?"

"Oh, that's," Shisui muffled a laughter with the back of his hand, "because I was the one who turned the lights off in the first place?"

Naruto stilled for a second. She got up from the couch and calmly walked to switch the lights on.

Of course, the lights turned on in an instant. Naruto turned around and looked at him in distaste, eyes narrowed and lips pressed together to show it.

Shisui was in the kitchen, a grin etched on his face as he gestured to the food spread across the table. A celebration for passing Kakashi's test, it seemed, judging by the 'Congratulations on becoming an official Genin!' banner hanging from the ceilings.

"How is it?" Shisui asked as they sat down to dine. "It's a prank, in case you can't tell."

Naruto briefly shot him a glare. "I can't say how much you've scored," Naruto mumbled and broke one of the disposable chopsticks. "But that was a good one."

"I thought it was good enough to amaze you." Shisui frowned, already shoving down one gyoza down his throat. "It feels real, right? You can't turn it on before I revealed it. Not to mention, I used a genjutsu to make the area around here dark."

"Hmph." Naruto eyed the takeaway Ichiraku ramen bowls and grabbed two. "You can never beat me at pranks. That, unfortunately for you, is a fact."

"Bold claim you have there, Naruto-sama." Shisui knew Mitarashi Anko would give Naruto a run for her money. "One of these days, I'll set a good prank for sure."

"I can't wait for that." She stole a glance at Shisui and smiled. She didn't know what brought this on, but she was happy that he did it just to surprise her with the food.

She could cheat and find out the main emotion he was currently feeling with her sensing ability, after all.

Time Line: A few months before Naruto's graduation

Omake: A Day with Tsunade

"... and so the seal acted as a..." Tsunade trailed off.

Naruto nodded, eyes focused with intensity. "Yeah. When a patient needs blood and there's only an unknown type of a blood, all we have to do is let a drop of that patient's blood and the seal will make the donor's blood compatible to the patient's blood type."

She took one packet of type RH+ A blood packet and put it on top of the 変化/henge (transform) kanji that was surrounded by a circle of smaller kanji. She took a cup filled with RH- AB type of blood and dropped a droplet of blood on the 血液型/ketsueki-gata (blood type) kanji that was also surrounded by smaller kanji.

Naruto formed a snake hand seal and channeled her chakra to the seal. She didn't utter the name of the seal because she didn't have a name for it. While without uttering the name, the process would slow down, Naruto was used to do jutsu without uttering the name. Saying the name only helped to focus to perform the jutsu, anyway.

They watched as the droplet of blood disappeared. When the sealing formula finished creeping into the blood packet, Tsunade wasted no time to test the transformed blood packet.

"My goodness, this is incredible." She eyed the result and then looked at Naruto with a brief smile. "To think you'd learned fuuinjutsu all by yourself." Tsunade lightly ruffled Naruto's head. "You're just like―" Tsunade paused, seemingly careful to choose a word, "―like Jiraiya."

"Jiraiya?" Naruto wasn't one to remember easily. Even today she would still call Tsunade with only 'Oba-san'.

Tsunade let out an exasperated sigh. "One of my teammates."

A teammate? Naruto finally remembered where she learned that name.

"Oh, the Icha-Icha series' author?" A look from Tsunade made Naruto nervous. "What is it?"

The tone was casual, but Naruto felt the irritation Tsunade was feeling currently when she inquired, "You read those books?"

"No, I don't," Naruto denied as she held up her hands, shaking her head a few times for a good measure. "I've met with this 'Jiraiya'. That giant old guy introduced himself as an author of those books I saw once in the bookstore, but they had an 18 only sign on it, so I don't know what's inside."

Tsunade uttered softly, "Glad to hear that." She paused for a moment then asked, "Where did you meet him?"

"A month ago when I went to the hot springs with Izumi-neechan. That guy's chakra was freakishly strong so I asked him to teach me something and he let me..." Naruto scratched her cheeks, almost giving the information that she had signed a toad summoning contract that old man had offered. "... yeah, never mind. So, well, I thought he was the owner of that hot springs because when I went there again last week, he was there."

Tsunade's eyes flashed with something that was just frightening. Naruto was thankful she didn't open her sensor ability because it didn't take her to use her ability to know that Tsunade was livid.

"Thank you, Naruto." Tsunade cleared her throat and pointed to the sealing formula on the scroll. "Now, continue on this seal. What is it for?"

Just extras/omake that I suddenly thought of recently.

This story is made when I was sick and my brain decided that I want more of Shisui and Female Naruto together, so at first, I was going to make this a one-shot only, with Shisui still dying in his encounter with Danzō. I don't know how it had progressed this far... I mean, I had never written a fic with more than five chapters. This is a miracle for me (lol).

See you!

-Tonegawa Rie