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Leaves of Steel, Chapter 13
Ichiraku Ramen Bar: 2:05 PM
Scooping up the noodley contents of his 6th bowl of Ramen, Naruto sucked it in like a wood chipper, causing Tenten to stare for the 6th time. The girl was only on her 1st bowl, guarding it from the ravenous Naruto.
"Naruto-kun? Do you always eat like this?" Tenten asked cautiously.
Naruto drained the broth and set the bowl down before answering with a long speech, "I always eat like this, Tenten. I've eaten here for as long as I can remember, and find it is the best way to squeeze in meals between training. In fact, it sometimes caused the old man to forget I even ordered, so my bill goes down."
Teuchi, the Ramen Bar's owner, spun around with an happy look in his eye, "Naruto...It actually causes me to OVER-estimate the ramen you've eaten, so I charge you MORE."
Naruto flinched and put his hand behind his head, rubbing furiously, "Oohh...so THAT's why Gama-chan gets so flat..."
Tenten giggled, and went back to eating her ramen at an increased pace.
After finishing her bowl, Tenten placed her chopsticks down and folded her hands, letting out a sigh. Naruto eyed he warily, and her eyes met his. Naruto made a head gesture towards her ramen bowl, as his mouth was full at the moment.
"Yes, Naruto-kun, I'm done." she responded, briefly thinking before asking, "Would you like to train with me after this?"
Naruto finished his 7th bowl, "Sure thing, Tenten!" Naruto exclaimed, while wiping the excess broth away with the back of his hand.
The boy pulled out Gama-chan, his wallet, and withdrew the memorized sum for 9 bowls of ramen. Handing the bills to Teuchi, and waving good-bye to Ayame, Teuchi's daughter, Naruto and Tenten left for the Training fields.
Training Ground 16: 2:43PM
A wave of kunai hit Naruto's torso, before the Shadow clone disappeared. Tenten looked around for the Blond-headed boy, setting up traps in the trees as she went. Naruto was trailing her silently, disarming the traps as he followed her. As he reached for a kunai on a wire, a fist connected with his face, sending him reeling backwards.
"Naruto-kun, you need to learn to identify a simply bunshin." sighed Tenten, as the boy hit the ground, vanishing into a puff of smoke.
"Same goes for you, Tenten." taunted Naruto, who was holding a Kunai to her throat, after sneaking up behind her.
Tenten twirled out of Naruto's reach, firing a wave of shuriken, "Shuriken Kage Bunshin no jutsu!" the bun-headed kunochi shouted, her hands still in the seal.
Naruto stared at the wall of blades with a determined resolve as he raised his right hand.
Tenten briefly switched seals, calling out, "Shrapnel Shuriken!", watching the resulting cloud of dust where Naruto met the Shuriken.
The shrapnel came headed back Tenten's way as Naruto shouted, "Rushing Metal: Burning Winds!"
Tenten blocked the shrapnel with a high powered spin of her Bo staff, and then launched the staff at Naruto, quickly attaching a blade to the end.
Off in the trees, a set of Metal NAruto clones completed their hand-seals, and flew back into Naruto's back, unobserved by the girl. Naruto felt the world slow down, and he grabbed the now slow-moving staff out of the air, launching it back with an exploding note hidden just behind the head.
Tenten saw this, and striped the note off at high speeds with a shuriken, catching the spear and placing it back into her scroll. She then continued a high-speed run at Naruto, who side-stepped and then tripped her, causing her to barrel down a hill.
Naruto jumped into the air, and took a metal maul out of his robe, swinging it down at Tenten, who switched with a log before the maul connected.
'Damn, he's good with weapons!' thought the brown-eyed kunochi, before pulling and swinging a katana from her scroll.
'A katana, I have to be careful around weapons that can go into my body, or she might notice...' the boy mused to himself, before twirling his steel-threaded robe around the sword, slinging Tenten and her weapon into the direction of a tree.
Tenten spun and landed on the side of the tree, rebounding towards Naruto while drawing a second sword from her other scroll. Attempting a scissor-slash at the boy, Tenten met only the resistance of air, before Naruto grabbed the blades out of her hands from his bent-backwards position. As Tenten came on a return flight, the blond spun the blades in a windmill, then slashed horizontally with both blades, narrowly missing her.
The girl pulled out a fuuma shuriken, and launched that at Naruto. Naruto switched with the shuriken itself as it left her hands, pinning Tenten by her arms to a tree behind her. Tenten shifted her right foot, springing a trap that fired a single senbon at Naruto's leg.
Forced to let go of her, the boy felt the swords leave his hands, and himself being pinned to a tree in the same manner he had used against Tenten. Unable to do anything without endangering his secret, Naruto sighed and hung his head to his adversary.
Tenten's hand continued to pin Naruto to the tree, where Tenten could examine the boy she had just beaten. His hair was damp with perspiration, and sweat collected like tears on his face. The boy was breathing heavily when he raised his head to his captor.
Her hair had come undone and framed her face, slightly dripping with moisture. She was breathing heavily upon him, smiling as she held his arms to the tree. Her brown eyes locked upon his blue eyes, and the awkward silence continued for another half a minute.
Tenten still held him down, "You should have been in our graduating class, Naruto-kun. Then I could have sparred with you every day!" she commented about two inches from his face, "You certainly have amazing skills in weapons."
Naruto blushed at both the laudation and the distance, before responding, "What I want to know is what you did with the Shuriken to multiply them, as well as how you knew to set up a trap at the other tree." The boy asked earnestly.
Tenten kept herself at the same distance from Naruto, "The multiplication of the shuriken is called 'Shuriken Kage Bunshin no jutsu', and I wired the tree as I rebounded off of it." she said, her hands remaining where they were.
"Can you teach me the Shuriken Kage Bunshin no jutsu?" asked Naruto.
"Can you get out?" asked Tenten with a smile.
Naruto smirked, but didn't respond or escape.
"If you can't get out, then I'm going to do whatever I feel like doing with you." warned Tenten, as she watched Naruto struggle in fear.
'She can't injure me, so I might as well let her do what she-' Naruto's thoughts were interrupted by Tenten taking his lips in a kiss.
Struggling for a while, Naruto's eyes soon fell shut as he was lost in the kiss. His muscles loosened, and his mouth was left defenseless.
'...' Naruto was left breathless as Tenten released the kiss, jumping away into the trees, a blush evident on both faces.
The boy slumped down into a sitting position, eyes not leaving the area of trees Tenten flew into. His stomach was fluttering, and his legs were wobbly. He raised a finger to his lips, still feeling moisture.
Sunagakure: 3:11PM
Kurenai, Kiba, Shino, and Hinata were at an oasis, sitting in the shade, for Hinata said she wasn't feeling well. While they were sitting Hinata's eyes widened in shock, and her team members switched their attention to her.
"Hinata?" asked Kurenai, "Are you okay?"
"I feel as if something very...odd has happened, but it seems to be over." responded the girl in a very dark tone, without stuttering.
Naruto's Mindscape
'HAHAHA! Why is it that souls always taste sweeter when I take them from love? I look forward to making you kill her, Naruto.' Stormbringer thought to himself.
End of Leaves of Steel, Chapter 13
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