Master Nin R
Niklas "Hawk" Jonsson

Summary: Naruto, desperately needing advice on how to handle his newly aquired girlfriend, turns to the worst possible source for male-female relationship advice in the Narutoverse. ... Or does he?

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emphasis/shouts/Kindred Domination/post-hypnotic triggers
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translation
+soundeffect/radio/telephone conversation/TV+

Previously, on 'Master Nin'

"Hinata?"

"N-n-n-n-na-naruto-kun!"

"Perfect! Hinata, you're a girl, right?" Naruto exclaimed as he jumped back onto his feet, pulling Hinata up with him.

"Hwah! Huh? Y-y-y-es?" Hinata stuttered, dusting herself off, blushing furiously at the close encounter of the Naruto kind she'd just experienced, as well as his unexpected happiness and inquiry at seeing her. /He noticed her! He noticed her as a woman/

"Great! I need a girl. Come on!" Naruto revealed in a conspiratoric whisper, then grabbed her left hand and tugged her along, as he darted through the city, heading for one of the training grounds in the forest surrounding Konoha.

"Y-y-y-yo-you n-need? ..." Hinata stammered, blushing into a beet red, looking down at the ground in stark embarrassment. "B-but Naruto-kun, I-I'm not s-su-sure if I'm re-r-ready for..." she said, trailing off, unable to bring herself to finish the sentence.

"Don't worry. I'll talk you through everything. You just need to do as I tell you and we'll be fine!" Naruto declared happily.

"Na-nani! Naruto-kun, you pervert!" Hinata squeaked.

"Huh? Oh, don't worry, this is Kakashi-sensei's book." Naruto responded, not quite getting what Hinata was getting at, but believing it had something to do with the book he was carrying. It was very perverted after all, no doubt she believed him a pervert too for having it. He hastily put it into his equipment pouch, before anybody else saw him lugging that thing around.

"B-but I'm a v-v-vi-v-v-v-vi-vir-vi-v-vir..." Hinata stuttered, but didn't manage to complete her sentence before Naruto cut her off.

"A very pretty girl!" Naruto agreed happily. "A bit weird too, but that's okay. I can kinda like a girl like you."

"Nar-n-naruto-kun!" Hinata squeaked in acute embarrassment as she was dragged off to only Naruto knew where.

Roll credits

Chapter Three:

"W-wh-w-what d-do yo-you wa-want me t-to do?" Hinata squeaked out after Naruto had led her to a currently unused training ground. "We're g-going to d-do it h-here?"

"Yes! It's perfect!" Naruto exclaimed cheerfully and Hinata paled even further. Naruto-kun certainly had odd taste! This wasn't very romantic at all! She certainly hadn't pictured her first time being at a training ground.

"I've n-never done this b-before." Hinata stuttered out in a barely audible whisper.

"Yeah. Me either!" Naruto cheerfully admitted. "I should have thought of this way sooner. Practise makes perfect, after all!" he laughed.

"P-pr-p-practise!" Hinata squealed, her eyes bulging out of their sockets.

"Yeah! If I'm going to be a hip'n great boyfriend, I have to practice to perfect my techniques!" he revealed and turned around to face Hinata with a determined expression. "Aha, what a delectable little treat. All of this, just for me." he announced, looking Hinata up and down with a focused gaze that caused Hinata's heart to skip a few beats and made her entire body freeze up.

"N-n-n-Naruto!" Hinata exclaimed breathlessly.

"Yes, perfect. I knew that you were the right girl for this!" Naruto exclaimed happily, before he got all serious and determined again. "Such a shame though, to cover up all this beauty with such uncomplimentary clothes." he purred and took a step closer, putting his right hand on her left hip, grinning at her as he slowly slid it upwards. "Then again, that can be easily corrected."

"Eeeek!" Hinata squeaked as Naruto suddenly grabbed the hem of her jacket and pulled it upwards, over her body, over her head and backwards. She squeaked again as the neck of the jacket caught on the upper side of her face, locking her with her arms held straight up and her body bent slightly backwards. "N-nar-na-naruto!" she yelped, unable to see what was going on, since the thick jacket covered her eyes. She could fix that by activating her Byakugan, but was in no state of mind to do so, shocked and panicked as she was!

"Silence, wench!" Naruto ordered. "You're mine now." he said and pulled the jacket backwards, causing her to bend further back. "These hips are mine." he claimed and his right hand returned to her hip again, slowly sliding over to the other side, before it returned again. "This ass is mine." he continued as his hand caressed the area in question. "These lips, are mine..." he breathed and she gasped as she felt his breath on the lower part of her face, her upper still covered by the jacket. The gasp was silenced as his lips claimed hers.

/I'm being kissed by Naruto-kun/ Hinata mentally screamed, all non-essential bodily and mental functions shutting down as the world around her vanished until it consisted only of their joined lips and Naruto's tongue slowly conquering her mouth.

"This stomach, belongs to me." he breathed as he pulled out of the kiss and his hand continued its daring exploration of her body. Her head darted forward and captured his lips, drawing him into another kiss. "Impudent wench. We're not doing this for you, I'm your master now. You'll do what I say, we'll do it when I want it, how I want it and where I want it." Naruto drawled as he withdrew from the kiss after a few moments. "These breasts, are mine to do with as I please." he continued as his hand surveyed the territory in question.

/Oh Kami! He's so... Forceful! Naruto-kun/ Hinata mentally whimpered, flushing in excitement and shame, as she felt him focus his exploration on her rapidly stiffening nipples.

"YIK!" she shrieked as he suddenly pinched her left nipple, hard!

"Mine to abuse..." he purred, then started caressing them. "Mine to please..." he continued and she moaned. "Mine to brand, should I so desire. Perhaps I should put my mark on them and force you to bare them in public, just so people will know for certain to whom this slut belongs." he drawled and she let out another moan, imagining just how embarrassed she would be if he made good on his threat. /Oh, Kami. What will father say? He would be so angry.../ she thought and felt herself growing even more excited as she imagined her fathers irate expression, should he ever hear of something like that ever happening.

"Please, Naruto-kun. Not that!" she piped up.

"Silence, wench. You're mine now, mind, body and soul. If I want it, you'll do it." Naruto ordered her and she whimpered as he pinched her nipple again. "To whom does this belong?" he demanded, pinching even harder, drawing out a pained squeak from her.

"T-to you, N-Naruto-kun!" she answered.

"Precisely! It's mine. You, are mine. If I want you to walk through town on your hands in the nude, that's exactly what you'll do. If I want to put you up for sale at the market, I'll do just that. If I want you to shave off all your hair, that's what you'll do. From this moment on, what you want no longer matter. My will, your law. My desires, your commandments. My satisfaction, your duty. Is that clear, slave?"

"B-but N-n-na-narUTO!" Hinata started, but ended with a shout as he pinched her again.

"You have no say in this matter. What I say goes. Is that clear, slave?" Naruto demanded.

"Y-yes!" Hinata said in a strained tone of voice.

"Yes, what?" Naruto asked.

"Yes, Naruto-kun! What you say goes!" Hinata exclaimed.

"A slave doesn't refer to her master like an equal." Naruto berated her. "From now on, you will only address me as Jirai... Uh, Naruto-sama. Naruto-sama, Master or Master Uzumaki. Is that clear, slave?" he asked, berating himself for almost slipping up the dialogue. Especially as Hinata had done so well, she held up her part very well. The dialogue wasn't quite like it was in the book, but it worked well enough. He had no idea that Hinata had also read that perverted book.

Then again, she was a weird sort of girl. Who knew what she did in her time off?

"Yes, Nar-n-naruto-sama!" Hinata agreed.

"Excellent. You learn quickly, slave." Naruto praised her and she felt her heart soar at his encouragement. "You're still wearing way too many clothes however." he snorted and her happy mood vanished as if it had never been there in the first place. "But that can be easily corrected!" he continued and she felt his hand trail downwards, pulling her undershirt out of her pants, rolling it upwards over her stomach, soon baring her bra-clad chest to him as the shirt was bundled up underneath her throat. The bra soon found itself pushed up there as well.

Then his hand moved downward, caressing her breasts and stomach as it went lower, grabbing the hem of her pants and pulling them down.

She whimpered as she felt him take a step back and then push the pants down using one of his feet, his hand absently caressing her left thigh as he did so. Then he pulled down her panties and dragged them half-way down her legs too.

"What a mess you are down there, slave. You will shave it all off." Naruto commented and Hinata turned beet red in embarrassment as she realized just where he was looking.

"No, Naruto-kun. Don't loo-AH!" she started to protest, only to yelp as he suddenly backhanded her right breast, then forehanded her left, before his hand cupped her groin.

"Naruto-sama!" he berated her. "And this is mine too. Mine to look at, mine to touch, mine to use however I please." he continued. "And I want it bare before this day is over, understand? I will check next time and if it isn't bare as a babies bum by then, I'll shave it all off myself. And I'll do it with a Kunai, not a razor. Do you understand, slave?" he demanded, grinding the flat of his hand against the area in question.

"Y-yes, Naruto-k-sama!" she hastily agreed, whimpering in humiliation as she realized that she was leaking all over his hand, which was still cupping her.

"To whom does this belong?" he suddenly asked.

"T-to y-you, Na-n-Naruto-sama." she replied in a strained tone of voice.

"What can I do with it?" he demanded.

"Whatever y-yo-you want, Naruto-sama." she said.

"Good slave, Hinata-chan. Here's your reward." he announced and she gasped as she felt one of his fingers sliding into her moist cavern up to the first knuckle. "Good slaves are rewarded and bad ones are punished. What sort of slave will you be, Hinata-chan?" he asked.

"A g-go-good slave, Master." Hinata whimpered, trying to analyze the weird sensations she was feeling. She'd never done anything like this before, even if she had explored some, she'd only caressed herself on the outside, never inside. The sensations she got from Naruto's inexperienced fumbling were so odd, that she couldn't even categorize them. Did it feel good? Was it uncomfortable? Was it painful? Did it excite her? She didn't know. All she knew, was that Naruto was touching her. It was Naruto who was doing this to her. The tip of one of Naruto's fingers was inside of her.

"I don't like the way you are usually dressed, Hinata-chan." Naruto informed her in the midst of all her confusion. "From now on, you'll dress in short skirts and tight tops. Underwear isn't allowed." he instructed her, then recalled that the girl in the book wasn't a Nin. Hinata's more active life-style was vastly different from the peasant girl in the story. But since this wasn't for real, perhaps that didn't matter?

Then again, he was doing this as practise for the real thing with Tsunade and she too was vastly different from the girl in the story. Not to mention, that she had even bigger 'problems' then Hinata. He couldn't go purely from the book, so perhaps it was better to start adapting it to reality starting now?

Yeah, probably.

"When you are training or going on a mission, I will allow you to wear sport bras, vest or a jacket and pants." he improvised. "Still no panties however." he amended.

Hinata flushed again, wondering if it was happening so often recently that her normally pale complexion might grow darker from all this constant blushing.

"Yes, Master." she agreed.

"Good girl, Hinata-chan." Naruto approved and she felt herself grow elated. She gasped and then grew weak as she felt something completely unprecedented overtake her, odd sensations rushing through her body and her knees growing weak.

"Yes, Master!" Hinata yelped, crumbling forward and leaning against him, only held upright by the jacket around the upper part of her head and her arms. Her knees were too weak to support her, so without the firm body she was leaning against and the pull of her jacket, she'd be on her knees right now. "Naruto-sama..." she whispered gratefully as he withdrew his finger from within her and used his hand to support her instead.

"This is great!" Naruto suddenly shouted and released his grip on her jacket. She leaned even more heavily against him and slowly brought her arms down, wrapping them around him for support. "You're soooo good, Hinata!"

"I'm a good slave?" Hinata whispered hopefully, but Naruto didn't hear her whisper in his excitement.

"I never knew you were so good at this!" he continued undaunted. /She must have read that book several times! Lucky! This was excellent practise/

"I'm glad..." she whispered, tears slowly trailing down her cheeks under the cover of her jacket. Naruto was praising her. She was hugging Naruto. They had kissed earlier. He saw her as a woman. He'd claimed her as his.

Granted, while she had imagined all of that, she'd NEVER imagined it happening quite like this before! Her, a slave? Naruto, her master? No, never EVER had she imagined anything even remotely like this. He'd been so confident, so forceful. She had submitted so easily to him. And it had been wonderful.

She had always admired his confidence, his determination and his willpower, but never quite so much as she did at this moment. If it hadn't been for him, would she ever had gathered up the courage to approach him? If it hadn't been for him doing this, would she ever have gotten so far as to even have hugged him like she was now?

Well, perhaps not quite as she was now. Never had she imagined herself hugging him with her pants and panties down around her ankles, her bra, undershirt and jacket pushed up, leaving her torso mostly bared while he was still fully dressed.

But without him taking her like this, would she ever have gotten as far as to hug him while they both were still fully clothed?

Considering how things had been going on for the last couple of years, probably not, she admitted to herself.

"This was great training, but there's still a lot to do before we're finished." Naruto exclaimed.

"Yes, Naruto-sama." Hinata agreed. /I've done well, but I still need to be trained to become a good slave for Master./ she thought, blushing again as she realized that she was looking forward to it. Both to the training and to becoming a good slave for her master.

"Come on, get dressed. I'll treat you to some Ramen." Naruto said and Hinata nodded. /I'm a good slave, Master is rewarding me. Good slave, Hinata./ she reasoned as she took a step back and started to pull down her bra, only to recall his earlier instructions about not wearing underwear when not training or going on a mission. She hesitated only for a moment, then unclasped it and removed it entirely, before pulling down her undershirt and jacket.

Her eyes instantly locked onto Naruto, who was standing with his back against her, nose pointed in the direction of Konoha and Ichiraku's. She looked down and stepped out of her pants and panties, before putting her pants on and putting her panties in a pocket in her jacket along with her bra. She would be a good slave to master. She didn't have a skirt around, so she hoped he would forgive her for not being able to wear one for him right away. She paled as she suddenly realized that she was wearing her jacket and hurriedly took it off, bundling it up in her arms.

The undershirt was tight, her nipples were still hard as solid rock and without the long jacket covering her up, anyone who saw her would be able to tell that, as she wasn't wearing her bra. Without the long jacket, the tight pants also showed off her shapely ass. If anyone got close enough, they would be able to tell that she wasn't wearing any panties! She felt horribly embarrassed, but didn't have a choice in the matter. After all, Master had ordered her and she only had to obey him.

"I'm r-ready, Naruto-sama." she announced.

"Great! Come on, all this training has made me hungry!" Naruto exclaimed. Though it hadn't been very long since he last ate, he'd been so distracted by the book that he hadn't eaten as much as he usually did.

Naruto felt very good about himself and much more confident now. Hinata was a real pal to have helped him with this. He blushed as he recalled the training and touching Hinata like that. He'd never realized that she had just as nice a body as Sakura had. Well, perhaps not just as nice, but she certainly wasn't far off! All that weird-ass gentle fist Taijutsu training had given her a finely toned body and he had to admit that it had felt good touching her like that, even if it had only been for training.

Yes, training. He needed a lot of that. He didn't want to mess up something and make Tsunade cry again, like she had when he tried to be a good boyfriend to her before. He didn't know quite where he had messed up, but figured there had been something lacking in his performance that made her disappointed with him.

He still didn't know why she had apologized to him, however. Perhaps she thought that she should have taught him to have been a better boyfriend or something? She was older then him, after all. No doubt she'd had boyfriends before and knew how they should act?

Hah! He'd show her, he'd show her that he could learn that just fine on his own!

He wowed that she'd be really impressed the next time he tried to be a good boyfriend to her. Or master, like the book called it. It must mean boyfriend, though. Just as slave must mean girlfriend. Otherwise the characters in the books wouldn't be doing such perverted things with each other. After all, only married couples and girlfriends/boyfriends did those sort of things with each other, didn't they?

"Hey, Hinata-chan? How about some more training tomorrow? I got a few boring missions, but after that, we could train some if you're free?" Naruto asked.

"Yes, Naruto-sama. I have a few missions as well during the day, but my evening is free." she replied as the two of them went through the gate, slowing down just enough so that the guards would be able to tell who they were. The moment they were through the gate, Naruto increased the pace again however, salivating around the mouth as he imagined feasting on a few bowls of Ramen. He would even keep his word and buy Hinata one, perhaps two.

Since the Tezuna mission had been upgraded from C-class to A-class and the Tsunade retrieval classified as an S-Class due to the encounter with Orochimaru and Kabuto, he'd received rather hefty pay checks for it and there was still some left from the Tezuna mission, even if he'd burned most of it on more Ichiraku ramen then he could ordinarily afford. But the gloriously large sum from the Tsunade mission was still unused, so he had more money then usual at the moment.

He glanced aside at Hinata as they bounced through the city, nearly stumbling off a roof as he saw her unusual manner of dress. He'd turned his back towards her as she got dressed, as it seemed wrong for him to keep watching her when they weren't training any longer, so this was the first time he saw what she had done.

/Wow./ he thought as he caught himself and leapt onwards to the next roof. She'd removed her jacket and was carrying it bundled up under her left arm. This and a slight bouncy quality to certain of her attributes which was obvious now when she wasn't wearing her jacket allowed him to reach the conclusion that she wasn't wearing a bra. He nearly stumbled again and Hinata managed to get a bit ahead of him. His eyes widened as he realized that he wasn't able to see a panty-line through her tights. /Wow./ he thought again. /She's really into this! She's even practicing when we're not training any longer. No wonder she knew the book so well./

/Hinata is a closet pervert/ he realized, shaking his head in bewilderment. That was weird, he'd thought only males were perverts. Well, males and Tsunade. Tsunade was definitively a pervert! His pervert, but a pervert still.

He briefly considered berating Hinata for it, but shrugged it off as he realized that this just meant that he'd found a good training partner. Closet pervert that she was, she no doubt knew lots more then he did and would be able to tell him whenever he did something wrong.

It also meant that he could tease the shit out of her for it!

"Mmmm, lots better, Hinata-chan. I can't wait to see you in a short skirt!" Naruto joked, which caused Hinata to stumble herself, just barely being able to prevent herself from falling off the roof she'd just landed on as Naruto spoke up.

"Y-y-y-ye-y-yes, Naruto-sama." she piped up and he chuckled at her perfect response. /Yeah, she's really taking this training seriously/ he thought. /Lucky! It'll be awesome to train with her if she's this gung-ho about it/

"You don't have to call me Naruto-sama when we're not training." Naruto told her. Not that he really minded, but it would be embarrassing if she did it when somebody could hear it! "Naruto-kun or just Naruto will do just fine." he assured her.

The two of them reached Ichiraku's in short order and were soon seated at one of the few tables, Naruto with a miso ramen in front of him and Hinata with a veggie ramen. Naruto sat down right next to her, causing her to blush again. They only had a minute or so after the ramen arrived to each other however, before company arrived.

"Old man! Pork ramen, lots of it!" Choji ordered, before he spotted Naruto and Hinata. "Hey, guys."

"Oi." the laid-back Chunin of the Nara family greeted them as he followed Choji. "Old man, beef ramen, please." he added in the proprietor's direction, before the two of them strolled over and seated themselves at the small table.

"Hey!" Naruto cheerfully greeted them, suppressing the urge to smirk as he saw them start at the sight of Hinata without her jacket. "Whatcha doin'?" he asked them.

"Tche, Choji insisted on doing some training all of a sudden and dragged me over here to 'replenish our energy' once we were done. How troublesome." Shikamaru replied.

"Cool. Where's the loud blonde Sasuke-freak you guys usually hang with?" Naruto asked.

"She wanted to take a shower and get a change of clothes, in case she bumped into 'my Sasuke-kun'." Shikamaru replied, pitching his voice to match Ino's for the last part.

"What are you guys doing?" Choji asked, drumming his fingers impatiently on the table as he waited for his ramen.

"Same. We trained a bit and then I got hungry." Naruto replied and then slurped up the broth from his nearly empty bowl. "Old man, another!" he called over at Ichiraku and slammed the bowl down in the centre of the table.

"Trained? You two?" Shikamaru asked with a bewildered expression. "Why?"

"Sasuke is off somewhere and Sakura is probably trying to hunt him down. Then I bumped into Hinata and asked her to train with me." Naruto replied.

"Y-y-y-yes." Hinata piped up with a faint blush on her face.

"Oh?" was all Shikamaru said in response to that.

"How'd that work for you guys?" Choji asked.

"Great! Hinata is very good!" Naruto exclaimed cheerfully. "Aren't you, Hinata?" Naruto asked, slapping her back, which nearly toppled her over and caused her to dive head-first into her still nearly full bowl of ramen.

"Yes." she shyly replied, still blushing. /I am a good slave/ Hinata mentally praised herself and blushed even deeper.

"You two trained together? Cool. Good for you, Hinata!" Ino exclaimed, having strolled in without being noticed by the other four. "Old man, vegetarian Ramen!" she ordered with a boisterous call, not unlike Naruto's.

"Yeah! She's the best, I learned lots!" Naruto replied as Ino seated herself next to Hinata.

"M-me t-t-too." Hinata piped up. "N-Naruto-kun is very good too." /A very good Master/

"Oh." Ino replied, somewhat surprised at hearing that. She kinda doubted it was true though. No doubt Hinata was influenced by the overly obvious crush she had on Naruto. Though he had won against Kiba... And even Neji! Come to think of it, perhaps he was better then she'd previously given him credit for.

She was even more surprised at Hinata's state of dress, however. She didn't think the shy Hinata had it in her to take off her jacket in public. Come to think of it, it didn't even look as if she was wearing a bra/Oh, how bold! But Naruto, the jackass, probably hasn't even noticed. Feh! He only has eyes for Big Forehead. ... Hey... He's always watching her. He's on her team. ... Perhaps.../ "Hey, Naruto. Do you think we can train sometime too?" she asked.

It was perfect. She could kindly inform him that he should ask Hinata out on a date and wheedle some of Sakura's weaknesses out of him at the same time. She hadn't expected her to put up as much of a fight in the preliminaries as she had, so getting the low-down on the current Sakura couldn't hurt in case she had to go up against Big Forehead Girl again.

Hinata blushed even deeper and just barely managed to suppress a gasp, while Naruto merely shrugged.

"Sure thing. Hinata and me are training tomorrow evening again. You could join us, if you want to." he replied flippantly before slurping down some more Ramen. He didn't really relish the notion of training with Ino, but he recalled that she had been friends and rivals with Sakura for a long time. Perhaps he could wheedle a few secrets about Sakura out of her, in case Tsunade ever broke up with him. Besides, Ino was a girl too. Perhaps he could even ask her a few things that could help him with this whole boyfriend/girlfriend deal. She was more similar in personality to Tsunade then Hinata, so perhaps she had a better idea of how to handle his Hokage girlfriend.

Yeah, that sounded logical. Perhaps it wasn't such a bad idea to train with her after all!

Hinata was now beet red and this time, she did gasp, though nobody around the table noticed as they were all either participating in or silently observing the conversation between Naruto and Ino. /Is Master displeased with me? Is that why he wants to train with Ino too? Maybe he wants to replace me! Or... Perhaps he wants more then one slave? Is that it/ she wondered nervously, absently twiddling her thumbs.

If he was thinking of replacing her, Hinata wouldn't know what to do. She'd be crushed! That would be even worse then how things had been before! Oh, she hoped that wasn't it! She'd never contemplated sharing him with anyone before. Heck, she hadn't contemplated being his slave either! But now, she was fervently hoping that he 'just' wanted to have another slave, not that he wanted to get rid of her!

"You wanna train with Naruto?" Shikamaru asked incredulously, scratching the top of his head in bewilderment.

"Yeah. I like what I see in Hinata now. If he can do that for her, I can't wait to see what he can do for me." Ino replied, to which Hinata emitted a low 'Eeeep' and Naruto to nearly choke on his ramen that Ayame had just placed in front of him.

/Another closet pervert/ Naruto mentally exclaimed as he punched his chest, trying to dislodge the Ramen that had gotten stuck in his throat at her unexpected comment. /She knows what I did with Hinata? Was she watching? How else can she know? I thought she was talking about regular training at first/ he wondered. /Or... Did she use that weird mind-thingy? 'What I see in Hinata now', she said... She must have looked inside her mind and decided to train like Hinata has! She IS another closet pervert/

"Tche, how troublesome." Shikamaru sighed, shaking his head. Hinata did seem more confident then he'd ever seen her, heck, if someone had told him earlier today that he'd get to see her out of her ever-present jacket, he would have laughed. But Ino certainly wasn't suffering from any confidence problems! He didn't want to know what she would be like if she got even pushier then she already was!

"Good for you, Ino!" Choji encouraged her. "One should always try to learn as much as possible from as many people as possible." he sagely added.

"Look who's talking! You almost never train! All you care about is where your next meal is coming from!" Ino snapped.

"I train... Sometimes..." Choji protested weakly. "I did today!"

"Yeah, for twenty measly minutes, then you got hungry!" Ino retorted. "And I had to nag at you two assholes for two straight days before you agreed to it and all I got from you two lazy bastards were twenty bloody minutes worth of training!"

Naruto was looking between Ino, Shikamaru and Choji with a faintly shocked expression. /Wow, I never would have thought.../ he thought, before shaking his head to dismiss the mental imagery that was starting to form. That was too bloody scary to contemplate! She trained with both Shikamaru and Choji?

Then again, she wanted to train with him too and he was already training with Hinata.

He really needed to reread some chapters in the book again, he'd focused on the ones with one guy and one girl as he was practising with Tsunade in mind. But he distinctly recalled skimming over a few that had multiple people involved. Perhaps that would help him understand what was going on and give him some ideas of how to handle a training session with two others involved...

The End! ( For now... )