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Chapter 3

"Come on!"

"No."

...

"I said, come ON!"

"NO!"

Ino strained as hard as she could and found to her pleasant surprise that she was indeed winning the tug of war. But instead of a rope, she was holding the arm of her fellow blond and part time girl, Naruto.

The said girl had her heels dug firmly into the dirt but this only slowed the inevitable as Ino dragged her along, deep parallel groves following the two. Shaking the sweat out of her eyes, Ino gave another mighty pull.

"You do realise this would be a whole lot less painful if you just cooperated. Hell, you might even have fun!"

Naruto only dug her heels in deeper in a futile attempt to get away. "Yeah, but maybe if you don't remember, I am a BOY! I'm just stuck in this stupid girl body!"

An agitated tic mark appeared on Ino's forehead when she heard that. Summoning more strength than she remembered having, she heaved the girl up onto her shoulder and slapped her rump soundly. The resulting cry was a satisfying melody to Ino's ears.

"THAT'S what you get for saying girls have stupid bodies! So if you don't want more of that, you'll just shut up and deal!"

Swearing profusely, Naruto struggled to escape from her uncomfortable perch on the now jogging kunoichi's shoulder. She tried punching Ino's back but that just resulted in a grunt of indigence and another, much harder slap to her tender behind. This had to happen several times before the pain convinced Naruto to stop. This didn't mean she had to enjoy it though and it showed. It also meant a bunch of drooling boys were introduced to a variety of colourful words that they hadn't heard before as the pair jogged towards a very girly clothes store.

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"Come out!"

"No."

...

"I said, come OUT!"

"NO!"

Placing her delicate fingers to her forehead, Ino could swear she had heard this before. In an amazing feat of endurance and strength, Ino had managed to not only get Naruto into the shop, but also into a changing room with some clothes that actually looked half decent. The only problem with that was that now she was in there, Ino could not for the life of her convince Naruto to come out. Patience wearing thin, she knocked hard on the door.

"I swear, you don't come out and I'll come in there and MAKE you come out!"

Her answer was a cheerful click as the lock snapped shut. Ok, that sealed it. Growling, the girl stomped her foot thinking of a way to go about this. Quickly spying her advantages, she happily noticed the common change room door design. Pausing, Ino took a look around to make sure there weren't any nosey so-and-so's looking for a cheap thrill. Satisfied with the peace, Ino dropped down to her back and wriggled under the thin gap beneath the door.

Unfortunately for Naruto, she didn't notice the triangle hand sign until too late.

"Shintenshin no Jutsu!"

Ino instantly went limp as an unfamiliar smirk replaced Naruto's previous look of abhorrent terror. Giggling, 'Naruto' grabbed Ino's body and pulled her over to an observer's chair. Sitting herself up in a relatively comfortable position, she giggled and ran back into the changing room.

A few silent minutes passed, the only noise being Ino's surprised exclamation, "Wow Naruto-san has a knockout set of tits!" Silence then resumed for a bit until a muffled scream of horror came from the change room. A second later, a very red faced 'Naruto' stomped out, heading straight for the underwear section, very clearly mumbling, "Who the hell in their right mind goes commando during the day?"

In Naruto's defence, the poor boy (at the time) had found that when wearing his usual briefs, every time he swapped genders, his undies dropped uncomfortably around his knees inside his pants and as such he couldn't hoist them back up into place without looking like he was doing something very socially unacceptable. But Ino knew nothing of this and so it just meant more information, i.e. blackmail for later.

SO, finally after finding an acceptable pair of lace panties, the girl quickly paid for the garment and ran back into the room. The changing process was now a lot faster that everything was there and barely a minute later, 'Naruto' sauntered out to face a look in the mirror. Her mouth dropped to an astounded 'O' when Ino realised just how much potential Naruto's female form had. The baby blue button up top hugged her figure beautifully and the matching, slightly darker blue ankle length skirt sat perfectly atop her hip bones, accentuating Naruto's womanliness.

Ino paused for a moment. Now that was probably the weirdest thing she had ever thought in her entire life. Naruto, sexy? Naruto, womanly? Reaching a verdict though, she just shrugged her shoulders in indifference and adopted a very sexy stance. Blowing a kiss into the mirror, she winked at herself before cancelling the technique.

Instantly alert, Ino quickly sat up and tried vainly to rub the kink out of her neck as she watched Naruto come around. She grinned as Naruto's wits slowly came back to her. Looking into the mirror and seeing what position that strangely familiar girl was in, dread washed over Naruto in waves. An ear-piercing screech echoed through the shop as in a blur, Naruto disappeared back into the change room. A second gasp of disbelief followed when she found none of her clothes remained in the booth. Hearing her demonic tormentor outside laughing gleefully, Naruto had to actively suppress the rising need to cry.

"DAMNIT INO WHERE ARE MY CLOTHES?"

Ino struggled to catch her breath and wiped a tear away. "Oh come on Naruto-chan! You have a smashing figure! I'm actually a bit jealous truthfully. Do you really want to hide that beauty from the world?"

It was then that Naruto let out a pathetic whimper from inside the booth. That sprung a small stab of guilt within the girl as she realised that maybe Naruto had had enough. Sighing, Ino stood up.

"Ok, ok, fine. Just wait a second. I'll grab your clothes."

Not taking more than two steps, it was then that a loud poof went off and a smoky mist drifted out from the change room. There was a gasp of breath and the distinct sound of fabric ripping as a much more manly voice called out in supreme urgency, "Ino? Ino! Please hurry up with those clothes!"

Eyes widening, Ino quickly grabbed the hidden atrocities and was about to throw them over when the door opened briefly and an arm snatched the clothes from her hand. Blinking twice, it was now Ino's turn to shiek when she realised she had just seen Naruto fully nude, save for a small scrap of that dress covering what was left of his modesty and the fully stretched bra across his chest. Covering her eyes in horror, she didn't notice the attendant walking across, looking very confused and a tad suspicious at all the noise.

"Miss? Are you ok? I heard a fair amount of shouting and was just wondering what's going on..."

Ino waved a hand nonchalantly in the clerk's direction. "No, no we're ok. It's just my friend was having some problems with her dresses."

"Oh, what friend would that be?"

Looking up through her fingers, Ino noticed that the room Naruto previously occupied was now dubiously bare. Instantly alert, Ino looked around, trying to find where her rogue dress up game had gotten too. Seeing a flash of orange disappear out the front door, Ino growled dangerously and made to follow when she was stalled by a spike of killer intent and a very unsatisfied grunt.

"Oh? Seeming you're 'friend' isn't here I assume you'll be the one paying for these clothes today?"

Turning stiffly, she saw the very displeased clerk standing in the change room, arms crossed and foot tapping. Ino could see why too because had looked like an outfit bomb had been triggered in there as it had bits of clothing everywhere.

Ino started stammering and attempting to explain but slowly fell silent under the disapproving glare she was receiving. Dropping her head in defeat, Ino fished around in her skirt pockets for her wallet.

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Naruto was running as fast and as far as he could manage from that torture chamber. After that experience, he was CERTAIN that the world held nothing left to fear. He did get a small amount of satisfaction from knowing he deserted that evil blond witch with the clothes bill. Rounding a corner, Naruto had to unleash a powerful display of agility as he twisted around a shocked girl, stunned into place by his arrival. Quickly checking himself to make sure nothing dislocated from that epic piece of mastery, he turned to face the person.

"Hey, look I'm really sorry about that. I didn't mean to... Hinata-chan?"

There standing before him was the heir to the Hyuuga clan and overall strange and weird dark girl, Hinata. He noticed she was pushing her fingers together rapidly and her face was blossoming into a healthy shade of red. Dropping the hand from behind his head, his eyes thinned as he leaned in.

"Hinata, are you ok? You've gone all red again. Have you got some kind of disease or cancer or something 'cause seriously, every time I see you you're burning up."

The shy girl's eyes widened as she waved her hands in front of herself. "N-no Naruto-kun it's nothing like t-that!"

Placing a hand on her forehead, Naruto cupped his chin with his other hand and shook his head wonderingly. "Well what is it then? Cause seriously, you are so hot!"

Instantly taking things the wrong way, Hinata felt her treacherous legs begin to give out under her.

"I-I-I-I'll be ok, s-s-seriously! I-I-I'm not all that hot..."

Naruto shook his head. "Na-ah you totally are! See?"

In an act of total social retardation, he pressed his cheek up against Hinata's in an attempt to show her the error in her judgment.

"See? I could pretty much fry an egg on your face at the moment! I... oh... oh no, wait, Hinata-chan!"

It proved too much for the girl as her mind misinterpreted it as, "See? I could pretty much suck face with you the moment!" and she lapsed into unconsciousness, beet red with a small trickle of blood running down her lip.

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Groaning unhappily to herself, Hinata sighed. She had been having the most wonderful dream that her and Naruto-kun had been dancing through fields of flowers. For some strange reason though, an unexpected rainfall helped kick-start the dream into something a bit steamier in which Naruto sent her a wink and began stripping. It was then she started to wake up and no amount of mental kicking and screaming could stop the image from fading. Pulling herself upright, she turned to see that she was beside a freshwater lake. And in that freshwater lake, was a topless Naruto-kun splashing in the shallows. Rubbing her eyes, Hinata made sure she wasn't seeing an illusion.

'This can't be real...'

Discretely activating Byakugan, she saw the tell tale sign of a chakra pathway coursing within the boy.

'Yup, it's real.'

She noted with interest that when the water splashed down his body, it really helped her eyes trace his muscles move beneath his skin.

'Ok, this is the single greatest moment of my life.'

Sighing, her look turned dreamy as she watched the boy play in the water.

'So beautiful...'

It was then that Naruto turned around from his swimming and saw a slightly wet Hinata, probably from one of his more vigorous splashes. Lifting an arm, he waved at her.

"YO! Hinata-chan! It's good to see you're awake! And look, you aren't even red anymore! Did you wana come in for a swim? I duno if you have any clothes for it though..."

The last sentence of Naruto's dialogue held absolutely no significance in Hinata's short life what so ever as she replayed possibly the greatest thing she had ever heard over and over again in her head.

'Naruto asked me to come swimming! Me! Now! But in what? I don't have anything!'

Comical tears began streaming down her cheeks when she realised the fact. Steeling herself though, she took a breath.

'M-m-maybe I could j-just take my j-jacket and p-pants off... I h-have a shirt and t-training pants underneath... t-t-that couldn't be too b-bad...'

Naruto slightly lowered his arm when he saw Hinata's face start glowing again. Sighing, he started to make his way up to her when he felt a familiar tingle in his tummy.

"Oh sh-"

BAMPH!

Naruto paused in shock, as did Hinata. Naruto's eyes met Hinata's. Hinata's eyes met Naruto's. Naruto's eyes stayed on Hinata's. Hinata's eyes stayed on Naruto's. Naruto's eyes pleaded no with Hinata's. Hinata's eyes met Naruto's chest. And the girl's nose promptly exploded, coating the ground in a thick layer of blood before passing out, totally unresponsive to Naruto's scream of terror.

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AN – All I can say is that chapter was really REALLY easy to write and an absolute joy doing so. Everything flowed smoothly straight out, first time and I couldn't be happier. Let me know if you agree!

By the way, if anyone has any constructive criticism, I am always keen to listen and improve my ways. So don't be shy, if you see something wrong let me know! I don't bite!